deep fat

noun

1. hot fat used for deep-frying food.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deep fat¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

After finishing his morning's work, he didn't want the machines to be redundant so he started dropping finely sliced potato into the deep fat fryers, which were normally used to make doughnuts.

From BBC

Even vacation hotels were geared toward longer-term guests, like the Merritt Hotel conjured up by Saul Bellow in The Adventures of Augie March: “greenery and wickerwork, braid cord on the portieres, menus in French, white hall runners and deep fat of money, limousines in the washed gravel, lavish culture of flowers bigger than life, and triple-decker turf on which the grass lived rich.”

From Slate

You know, we were the first guys to put a deep fat fryer on a product that went outside, and then we came out with an air fryer the next year, and now we’ve come out with electric griddles.

From The Verge

The concept of the deep fried chocolate bar was taken to a new level when a full Colin the Caterpillar cake was battered and dropped into the deep fat fryer in a Lanarkshire chip shop.

From BBC

Colin emerged from the deep fat fryer not as a butterfly but as a crispy chocolate log.

From BBC