...To loathe the term 'pan fried'?

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What the feck do you use to fry something if not a pan? I don't feel the need to tell people that my bread this morning was 'toaster toasted'.

Feel free to tell me if there are things other than pans one can use for frying.

"veg" to me conjures up the cold overcooked mixed frozen veg served up in a certain type of pub, which presumably they don't expect anyone to actually eat.

Expressions like "Freshly made" and "home cooked" allow restaurants to get away with serving processed or not very fresh food and pass it off as made on the premises. It doesn't have to be fresh to be called freshly made, it can be made of old, stale ingredients hurriedly thrown together. Home cooked (as someone earlier said) means it was made in a factory but cooked on the premises. So a microwaved ready meal could be called home cooked!

But "pan fried" is used by more upmarket restaurants to distinguish themselves from the greasy spoons who use deep fat friers. Who cares, as long as it tastes good?

I think it is a perfectly sensible way of differentiating between the amount of fat used

Can I also just point out that there is a bit difference between a jus and a sauce

BIG not bit

Have not read the whole thread, but no, YANBU!!!!!!!!!!!!! 'Pan-fried' drives me crazy - bad enough on a menu - where else do you fry stuff??? - but I saw it the other day on a MN 'wahts for dinner' thread ans was PMSL a the pretentiousness Presumably, pan-fried is a wasy of saying, 'we fry stuff but in a middle class way - we are not chavs, no siree!'

V true MrsGofG.

One pans fries fillet steak but simply fries an egg, no?

Pan fried egg.

No.

I'm off to the caff for a pan fry up

Well. Goodness. Last time I looked, this had about six replies.

To be honest, I had completely forgotten about the existence of deep fat fryers and woks when I posted the OP, so am suitably humbled

'Pan fried' is still a poncy thing to say though.

I had a weird one in Tesco yesterday - I don't usually buy meat at supermarket.

I picked up a perfectly inoffensive packet of mince which had the tag line "Ideal for recipes dishes".

What the fuck does that mean?

Do they do a different type of mince for not-following-a-recipe-just-chucking-stuff-in-pan-like-usual dishes?

I couldn't see any, so I bought it anyway and it didn't seem to suffer from my treatment of it.

love caffs,sometimes all the floridly described focaccia -this,drizzled that is wrong

sometimes my body screams egg and chips,cuppa builders tea,buttered roll

Ahem. Greasy spoons don't use deep fat friers for their "pan fried" style food.

IME they all use a massive metal plate thingy that they spray a very small amount of oil onto.

Hence "greasy spoon" fry-up healthier than "pan fried" fry-up any day of the week

Hilarious, that about the mince.

I loathe 'veg' 'and' veggies too.

ahem?you have a cough?LOL of course they deepfry the chips.that is why they are tasty,fried eggs on a griddle thingy

Yum

Oh the chips.

I'm a bacon egg and toast girl myself.

Maybe caffs should start advertising "griddle fried" as possibly an even healthier version of the poncy "pan fried" restaurant nonsense

And surely no-one would pan-fry chips?

I was under the impression they had to be deep fried otherwise they would be all wrong!

This is not just an "Am I being unreasonable thread?". This......is a hand-typed, pant-wettingly funny "Am I being unreasonable" thread, dripping with sarcasm and oozing with mirth, all lovingly hand-churned by our very own Mumsnet auteurs.

Gary Rhodes saying 'It eats well,' is guaranteed to make me feel queasy.

Gary Rhodes is guaranteed to make me feel queasy full stop. God, he's so patronising. Actually, have recently decided that ALL celebrity chefs are up their own arses.

regarding the way food is described on its packaging......I recently saw a ready-meal shepherd's pie described thus: "topped with real mashed potato". Erm, I wouldn't expect it to be made of papier mache, now, would I?

DH and I have just wolfed a bag of crisps with the legend 'made from real ingredients' on the front... wtf?

And I hate the word 'luxe' Grazia uses it a lot and it fucks me off. IT MEANS NOTHING YOU FASH BIMBOS.

Hello - I don't actually think there is a big problem with 'pan fried' as it distinguishes from 'shallow fried', 'stir fried' and 'deep fried'. I agree there is a fine line between 'pan fried' and 'sauteed' but generally 'sauteed' should involve quite a bit of butter, I think. On the other hand, I absolutely dispise 'oven roasted', 'oven baked' and 'fried off' - all have one word that is completely and utterly redundant. However, the one that gets me the most is something that seemed to come up a lot with that very shouty judge on Masterchef - "I think you've got a palate" What??? I shudder to think what the poor guy would look like without one.

I wish the Dillons would hurry up and buy their naffing sofa, anyway what has it got to do with gran and grandad FFS????

Sorry, there isn't a forum for it so I thought I would hijack this one?

Anyone have a clue what I am on about

I would tell gran and grandad to piss off....

I really hate that advert

Ha yes, those Dillons. Thing is, they know that sale ain't really going to end soon, so they can take as long as they like.

Hurray, you are on my planet