pan-fry

Exposure to mutagenic aldehydes and particulate matter during panfrying of beefsteak with margarine, rapeseed oil, olive oil or soybean oil.

Celebrity Masterchef (BBC1, 8pm) Three well-known faces do battle tonight to prove they know their way around a kitchen by filleting and perfectly panfrying a fish in just 10 minutes.

(With most stoves, you'll need two burners.) No more smoke is generated than would occur with panfrying, and a good kitchen fan will draw it away easily.

And there's good reason for that: Whether you're baking biscuits in a Dutch oven, flipping pancakes on a griddle over a woodstove or panfrying chops on a modern electric range, cast iron makes the best cookware.

Despite all of its desirable effects, nitrite has also been the culprit in the formation of carcinogenic N-nitorsamines in certain cured products under high temperatures of panfrying. N-nitrosopyrrolidine and N-nitrosodimethylamine have been detected at <100 ppb in fried bacon.[2,13] Free, unbound nitrite reacts with amines and amino acids in meat, leading to the production of these and other N-nitrosamines.

About half the chapters emphasize the method or cooking utensil used: there are sections on oven cookery (roasting, broiling, and baking), frying techniques (panfrying, stir-frying, and deep-frying), barbecuing (direct and indirect heat), and kettle cookery (simmering, poaching, and steaming to make soups, stews, and other good mixtures).

BRAISING, basting, roasting, panfrying - there's a lot more to being a top chef than simply cooking up a meal.