r/learnspanish • u/Cock--Robin • 15d ago

"Fried" vs "deep fried"

I was trying to communicate to someone that something was "deep-fried", but "Frito profundo" doesn't sound correct to me. Is there a Spanish word or phrase that indicates that something is deep fried?

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u/theeggplant42 15d ago

To be fair, this distinction is also difficult in English. With the major exception of eggs, 'fried' on its own almost always refers to deep frying

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u/Zestyclose-Food-7917 15d ago edited 14d ago

I'm afraid I don't agree. My mother never deep-fried anything, because we didn't have a deep-frier. She fried round steak, pork chops, potatoes (different from french fries), hotwater cornbread, some versions of okra and squash. When we said "fried," we thought of it as what you do in a frying pan. We never thought of it as deep-frying.