What’s on the Frying poster
A 6-row table: Method · Fat · Temp.
By quantity of fat and heat.
- Sautéing — A film — High, moving
- Pan-frying — 2–3 mm — Medium-high
- Shallow frying — Halfway up — 170–180°C
- Deep frying — Submerged — 170–190°C
- Stir-frying — A little, very hot — As hot as possible
- Sweating — A little — Low, no colour
Below 160°C food absorbs oil and goes greasy. Above 190°C it burns outside before the middle cooks.
Questions about the Frying poster
- What’s on the Frying poster?
- A 6-row table: Method · Fat · Temp. By quantity of fat and heat. Sautéing — A film — High, moving; Pan-frying — 2–3 mm — Medium-high; Shallow frying — Halfway up — 170–180°C; Deep frying — Submerged — 170–190°C; Stir-frying — A little, very hot — As hot as possible; Sweating — A little — Low, no colour. Below 160°C food absorbs oil and goes greasy. Above 190°C it burns outside before the middle cooks.
- Who is the Frying poster for?
- Frying belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning technique can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Frying poster?
- The amount of fat changes the method entirely. So does the temperature. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Frying belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Frying?
- Batch Cooking, Blanching and Braising sit alongside Frying in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Batch CookingBlanchingBraising
- Is the Frying poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Frying downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Frying poster print at?
- Frying is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Frying loses nothing.Printing guide
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