frying

Everyday

1. Frying is cooking food in hot oil or fat. tree →
2. A frying pan is a flat, shallow pan with a long handle used for frying. tree →

In the lessons

In cooking and safety lessons, frying needs an adult; hot oil can spit and burn. In everyday life: «Dad is frying sausages». The saying «out of the frying pan into the fire» means escaping one problem only to land in a worse one. Phrases: «frying pan», «out of the frying pan into the fire».

Examples

• Dad is frying sausages for breakfast. tree →
• The smell of frying bacon filled the house. tree →
• Put the frying pan on the stove. tree →
• Turn the pan handle inward when frying. tree →
• Frying uses more oil than baking. tree →
• We went out of the frying pan into the fire when the second storm came. tree →
• Hot oil spat out of the frying pan. tree →
• ‘No; they are frying pancakes in Europe just now,’ said Little Lasse; and he wanted to jump ashore, but he could not. tree →

Note

Keeps «y» before -ing: «frying», not «friing». Safety: turn pan handles inwards so nobody knocks them; stand back from spitting oil; never put water on burning oil. Also called a «skillet» or «fry pan» in the USA. Not a number word.