Pan-fried / oven-roasted rant

[ClaireFromWork]

How the bloody hell else are you supposed to pan or roast something! Winds me up.

grrr pan = fry

Caramalised = burnt

yy

Well, you can oven fry and you can slow roast in a slow cooker.

So there you go.

And caramelised does not equal burnt when done correctly.

well, originally roasting meant on a spit.
So it is very important they tell you it's oven roasted or you will think they did it in front of a roaring fire with a little boy to turn the spit.

Ahhh, Turnip so what the menu is telling me is that the restaurant believes in good working conditions for minors then?

Does anyone oven fry? I've owned an Aga before now and even then I never oven fried.

What does 'yy' mean?

yes yes.

You can deep-fry. You can boil, braise, soften, poach in a pan. You can bake rather than roasting in an oven.

You could roast on a spit. You could fry in a deep fay fryer. But I get your point.

Oven baked lasagne
Jacket potatoes REALLY annoys me .... They,re BAKED
Fruity wine .... Its likely to be made of grapes, which are fruit
market vegetables. Just vegetables describes it to me

I agree with jacket potato...

But not all wines are fruity and they are vegetables from that morning's market as opposed to bought a week ago.

Do people really not understand this sort of thing?

Yy, this has always annoyed me.

And house parties.

Aren't they just parties?

Are they really bought that morning, Tee? Really?

Lasagne doesn't have to be made in the oven.

Kenny - I'm sorry but my mum calls them jacket potatoes, and my mum is Never Wrong (she told me so), so jacket potatoes they are. I wouldn't advise you to argue with my mum either - she has the Look - you know, the one that makes your knees tremble at 100 paces! It still works on me, and I am 47!

Pan-fry is my pet hate. The term they are looking for is either fry. Deep fried, shallow fried - it's all fried.

I also hate the terms jus when sauce or gravy is what is served and marmalade when applied to onions.

I'm reserving judgement on the recent tendency to use macaron rather than macaroon

Jackets potatoes - nothing wrong with that!

Extra 's' there!

not sure why an either slipped in to my first sentence there but I get another go

'braised' vegetables.

Well - valium's safe from my mum's Look, at any rate!

Theoretically, Claire.

SDT I'll put my American conviction that they are baked potatoes against your mother's look any day.

Jacket potatoes are not always cooked in an oven. What do you call them when done in a microwave? They are potatoes that come in their jackets, however they are cooked.

But I often boil new potatoes in their 'jackets', or skins as we call them in the US, would that make them jacket potatoes as well?