deep frier

A form of deep fryer — A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.

Meanings

noundeep frier (plural deep friers)

plural deep friers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of deep fryer.

    Major causes of residential fires are: smoking, deep friers, frayed electrical cords, electrical shorts and overloads, space heaters and stoves.

    2000, Joanne Lalonde-Hayes, Patricia Lalonde, editors, More Time Moms Project Planner 2001, Aylmer, Que.: More Time Moms Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 18
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    Once, when she’d had to dip about a thousand chicken pieces into some disgusting yellow stuff and lay them in deep friers, like huge metal boxes, with the heat coming up off the fat, she’d had to run out and throw up.

    1992, Lynne Reid Banks, One More River, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Morrow Junior Books, →ISBN, page 73

    In household applications PBT has found use not just because of its high heat distortion temperature, rigidity, very good electrical insulation properties and dimensional stability but also because of the resistance of the material to many liquids and chemicals encountered in the home. […] Established applications include oven door handles, component parts of coffee makers and deep friers, electric iron housings, styling hair brush components and heated hair curlers.

    1999, John Andrew Brydson, Plastics Materials, 7th edition, Oxford, Oxon: Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, page 727
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