What do you consider is the difference between frying and sauteing?
What do you consider is the difference between frying and sauteing?
The difference is the source of heat working on the food.
I think of saute as cooking something using primarily the direct heat of the pan in contact with the food, any fat that is used being present to lubricate the pan, since it usually refers to smaller pieces of food that will be moved about and would otherwise tend to stick.
Frying, then, is cooking by contact with hot fat, essentially a high heat alternative to boiling, those temperatures being impossible with water...
The difference is the source of heat working on the food.
I think of saute as cooking something using primarily the direct heat of the pan in contact with the food, any fat that is used being present to lubricate the pan, since it usually refers to smaller pieces of food that will be moved about and would otherwise tend to stick.
Frying, then, is cooking by contact with hot fat, essentially a high heat alternative to boiling, those temperatures being impossible with water.
The terms are sometimes blurred. A "fried" steak is usually actually sauteed, rather than cooked by immersion in hot oil. Bacon, however, cooking in a pan, is truly fried, since it quickly generates the fat that does the cooking. And I think it will always be "fried" egg, remembering that classic fried eggs are cooked in considerably more fat than you often see today.
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To me saute' suggests more constant motion. More of a verb.
While fry seems more stationary. When frying an egg or chicken leg it tends to stay in the same spot until it's time to turn it.
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One you can use EVOO and the other you can't.
Thank you for the link. That confirms what I thought the difference was. I also learned the term "shallow fry".
shallow fry is how i do fried chicken. sort of a braise, but using high temp oil, lol, just to confuse things more.
That's how I do fried chicken, too... when I'm not picking it up at the grocery store They make some good fried chcken.
And not to add to the confusion
When I start my chicken & biscuits tonight I will be sweating the veggies in EVOO... not to be confused with sauteing. I don't want brown.