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"Fry" is an ambiguous word in English
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This is why you sometimes have to make it specific by saying "deep fried" or "pan fried".
Deep fried? Can I get deeper fried ones? How about the deepest fried ones?
Or isn't this like the cooked stages of steak?
Non-native speaker, too.
Deep fried means submerged in oil
A "deep fry" is distinguished by totally submerging the food in oil, as opposed to a shallow fry (less often said, but still used) where something is fried in hot oil, but not enough to totally cover it. I thiiiiink Mandarin makes a similar distinction with the use of "broad oil" versus "bottom oil", but I don't speak Mandarin and I'm taking that from the rough translations from Chinese cooking videos I watch.
Deep frying is when there's like a bowl of oil that you completely submerge the food in.
Pan frying is when it's just a light layer of oil.
Stir fry is like pan fry, but you stir while frying.
Check out variations section of the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frying
Deep frying specificaly refers to frying by submerging in hot oil. Fried chicken is deep fried.