You would not, it is true, want cellulose acetate butyrate on either your car or your frying pan.

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Instead of a butane burner or brazier filled with charcoal, you can use a more convenient (and much easier to find) electric frying pan or wok.

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My 3 year old gets to help crack the eggs into the bowl or (cold) frying pan.

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Or she could get a frying pan from the kitchen and beat on it with a spoon.

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It might be smart or might be going from frying pan to fire.

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At DFW, a UFood Grill, which features baked, steamed or grilled food (no frying) and dishes with brown rice and vegetables, replaced a deli and is doing twice the volume, without affecting McDonald's, either.

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Soft-shell clams are usually called steamers when they are sold whole for steaming and fryers or belly clams when they are sold shucked (with siphon removed) for frying.

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Cottonseed oil is also the primary input in the production of Olestra, a frying fat that glides through humans without leaving a trace of fat or calories, and is also an important source of vitamin E for pharmaceutical producers.

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They slept in it, among contents that they kept tidy, knowing that they must: tools of one kind or another they had come by, their mugs, their plates, a basin, saucepan, frying pan, food.

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