1. A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use
   "Deep fryers are used for cooking many fast foods, and making them crisp"; "The restaurant used a large deep fat fryer to prepare crispy french fries";
   - frier, deep fryer, deep fat fryer, fryolator
    
2. A container used for heating oil and frying food in it
   "He carefully lowered the battered fish into the hot oil in the fryer";
   - frier
    
3. [N. Amer] Flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying
   "She prepared Southern-style fried chicken using fryers";
   - frier [N. Amer], pullet

Sounds like: fryer, f

Derived forms: fryers

Type of: chicken, kitchen appliance, poulet, volaille [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Fryer, Peter