Is a Fry still a Fry If It's Ingredients Aren't Fried?

stimpson · 18-05-2011 02:27PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Sausages in the deep fat fryer, rashers on a tray in the microwave, pudding in the George Forman grill. Now that's how you do a fry!

Kill the blasphemer!

WopTittyPop · 18-05-2011 02:28PM

keane2097 wrote: »

It's still a fry.

The ingredients are obv the important element, not the cooking method.

If I throw a load of broccoli, bananas, a turnip and a packet of ham onto a frying pan is that a fry?

No.

Sausages, rashers, pudding etc = fry, regardless of cooking method.

I made almost the exact same point in the argument.

Another point he had was that all food in a "fry" has to be cooked on a frying pan. From what I know, the majority like a good oul' slice or two of toast with their fry. Does having toast make the fry no longer a fry?

Insect Overlord · 18-05-2011 02:33PM

stimpson wrote: »

Kill the blasphemer!

:pac:

The sausages actually work great that way. But yes, a proper fry is a frying-pan affair.

lilblackdress · 18-05-2011 02:35PM

Dominik Small Checkers wrote: »

To me a "fry" refers breakfast of sausages, rasher etc regardless of being done in the grill or the pan. I find it much easier to use the grill than the pan and its probably nicer due to being less greasy.

Is it bad that i think a greasy fry is yummy...... much more yum than grilled sausages and rashers!!

ScumLord · 18-05-2011 02:35PM

It's not called a fry in the first place, if you go out foreign it's called an Irish breakfast so here it's just known as breakfast.

Calling something a fry means it was fried. You can't have a fry if you grill something just like you can't call roasted vegetables roasted vegetables if you boil them and you don't get a stir fry from out of the grill.

The clue is name damnit people.

ISDW · 18-05-2011 02:39PM

WopTittyPop wrote: »

I made almost the exact same point in the argument.

Another point he had was that all food in a "fry" has to be cooked on a frying pan. From what I know, the majority like a good oul' slice or two of toast with their fry. Does having toast make the fry no longer a fry?

I prefer fried bread with a fry up:) If I have toast, then its an added extra, not part of the fry.

KungPao · 18-05-2011 02:40PM

I shallow/deep fry practically nothing at home. I grill my sausages and rashers but do fry my egg in a drizzle of oil.

Then I put it all on the plate atop a sheet of kitchen paper to absorb as much grease as possible.

No where near as tasty as the real thing, but better for the ticker.

But if you don't fry all the core ingredients, you can't call it "a fry".

Cupcake_Crisis · 18-05-2011 02:44PM

My mam cooks it in the oven....what does that make it?

Raze_them_all · 18-05-2011 02:46PM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

My mam cooks it in the oven....what does that make it?

Wrong.

Chris P. Bacon · 18-05-2011 02:46PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Sausages in the deep fat fryer, rashers on a tray in the microwave, pudding in the George Forman grill. Now that's how you do a fry!

Microwave rashers!!..well i never :eek:

thehairyelbow · 18-05-2011 02:48PM

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Microwave rashers!!..well i never :eek:

You'd prefer them well done I reckon

KungPao · 18-05-2011 02:49PM

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Microwave rashers!!..well i never :eek:

A microwave would surely make soggy rashers and not crispy bacon?

Chris P. Bacon · 18-05-2011 02:50PM

KungPao wrote: »

A microwave would surely make soggy rashers and not crispy bacon?

Exactly what i was thinking

18-05-2011 02:51PM

I wouldn't say it's not a fry to grill some of it... But it's not as good. The most important things to fry are the rashers, mushrooms, onions and pudding. Logistical reasons mean that the sausages often got done on the grill but they're not as important imo.

TheBunk1 · 18-05-2011 02:57PM

Its a not a bloody fry if its grilled!

And toast is merely an accompaniment to the fry, not an integral part of the main dish.

18-05-2011 03:08PM

Well since I was a child we have had a "fry" every Saturday and Sunday morning and everything bar the eggs are grilled.

I dont think dripping in oil adds anything to the flavour tbh, for sausages and rashers the grill is better imo.

The real blasphemy is people using ketchup on their breakfast.

FinnLizzy · 18-05-2011 03:08PM

Irish people have this problem of naming things:
Tayto = Crisps, regardless of whether the brand is Tayto or not
Quinnsworth = What old people call Tesco
Fry = even if its a dried out ****ty excuse of a grilled breakfast

If you want to be healthy, do it on your own time, and give me real food, shplattergunned with grease!!!

westendgirlie · 18-05-2011 03:37PM

1) Turn the cooker and grill (warming) on
2) Add oil to FRYING pan
3) Cook sausages, pudding and tomatoes (optional) until a lovely brown
4) Once cooked put under a low setting grill to keep warm
5) Cook bacon to crispiness level of choice. Keep warm in grill.
6) Cook mushrooms (optional) and stick kettle on.
7) Warm teapot. Stick kettle on again. Add 3 teabags, boiled water.
8) Get fresh pan and add oil. Once hot add eggs. Put toast on
9) Dish out fry.

ENJOY

ScumLord · 18-05-2011 03:50PM

Deleted User wrote: »

6) Cook mushrooms (optional) and stick kettle on.
7) Warm teapot. Stick kettle on again. Add 3 teabags, boiled water.

Boiling the kettle twice? Not only is your energy consumption a kick in the face to poor old mother nature and you electricity bill boiling water twice ruins the water for tea making.

The King of Moo · 18-05-2011 03:57PM

Only if someone's there to hear it fall.

stimpson · 18-05-2011 03:57PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Boiling the kettle twice? Not only is your energy consumption a kick in the face to poor old mother nature and you electricity bill boiling water twice ruins the water for tea making.

Nonsense. Water should be boiling for tea and the pot should be warm. The man knows what he's doing.

ScumLord · 18-05-2011 04:00PM

stimpson wrote: »

Nonsense. Water should be boiling for tea and the pot should be warm. The man knows what he's doing.

Boiling the water twice removes oxygen and concentrates any impurities in the water which all bad for tea making.

TaraFoxglove · 18-05-2011 04:04PM

WopTittyPop wrote: »

A friend and I had a drunken argument about this a few days ago, and it was never really resolved.

I had just made, and was about to indulge myself in eating, what I consider, a fry. Because I had cooked everything, minus the eggs, on the grill my friend argued that what I was eating was not a fry.

My argument is that, although the ingredients to my meal were not cooked on a frying pan, the meal as a whole (rashers, sausages, eggs, pudding, toast etc.) is generally called a "fry".

What say ye?

If you grill most of the ingredients, it's a mixed grill.

And to people saying fries are better than grills:

Grilled rashers >>>>>> Fried Rashers

Snowie · 18-05-2011 04:05PM

isnt a fry a baby fish

Neonjack · 18-05-2011 04:10PM

If you threw the lot in a pot of water and boiled them, would you still call it a fry? :rolleyes:

TaraFoxglove · 18-05-2011 04:11PM

WopTittyPop wrote: »

I made almost the exact same point in the argument.

Another point he had was that all food in a "fry" has to be cooked on a frying pan. From what I know, the majority like a good oul' slice or two of toast with their fry. Does having toast make the fry no longer a fry?

Well, in Britain they have fried bread with their fry. God, it's so so good. *drools*

holystungun9 · 18-05-2011 04:14PM

thehairyelbow wrote: »

Ah no. Has to be done in the pan, no, no, no.... the grill is only for warming your jocks on a cold morning

House share?

Oranage2 · 18-05-2011 04:18PM

I think its called an 'American Breakfast'

stupidusername · 18-05-2011 04:23PM

TaraFoxglove wrote: »

Well, in Britain they have fried bread with their fry. God, it's so so good. *drools*

Ya know some irish people do it too

If you get a breakfast roll do you consider that a fry in a roll? Cause that's grilled or oven cooked.if someone cooked a fry for me and it hadn't been fried, I wouldn't be questioning what its called,i'd be questioning why the **** they didn't fry it.

stimpson · 18-05-2011 04:23PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Boiling the water twice removes oxygen and concentrates any impurities in the water which all bad for tea making.

Water that has been boiled once has had almost all of the dissolved oxygen already removed:

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-solubility-water-d_639.html

And reboiling will actually decrease the amount of volatile impurities. Non volitile impurities will be concentrated, but my the minuscule amount of water that has boiled off as steam.

On the other hand, using non boiling water, or a cold teapot will make your tea taste like ****e. It's science.

Is a Fry still a Fry If It's Ingredients Aren't Fried?

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