這個動作，以及做出來的那盤菜
一個是核心畫面正在發生的動作，一個是畫面結束後端上桌的成品。
verb · B1
To cook small pieces of food quickly in a little very hot oil, moving them around all the time, usually in a wok or another deep pan.
快炒；炒
核心畫面
A pan so hot it smokes, a small amount of oil, and small pieces of food that never stop moving. The whole thing is finished in minutes. The word says its own recipe out loud: stir, because the food keeps being pushed around, and fry, because it is oil and heat doing the cooking.
可以想成一口燒到冒煙的鍋，一點點油，還有一直沒有停下來的小塊食材。幾分鐘就收工。這個字等於把做法直接唸出來給你聽：s…更多收起
可以想成一口燒到冒煙的鍋，一點點油，還有一直沒有停下來的小塊食材。幾分鐘就收工。這個字等於把做法直接唸出來給你聽：stir 是食材一直被推來推去，fry 是靠油和熱把它弄熟。四個條件缺一不可——料要小、油要燙、手不能停、時間要短。少了「一直翻」這一層，就只剩下 fry，那是煎或炸，不是炒。From the word’s history
Recorded as a 1945 coinage from stir + fry, by Buwei Yang Chao in the English cookbook How to Cook and Eat in Chinese — the compound was built to hand English readers the Chinese cooking action.
字典記載這個字是 1945 年由一位在美國的醫師 Buwei Yang Chao 在英文食譜 How to Cook and Eat in Chinese 中，用 stir 加 fry 造出來的，目的就是把中式的「炒」講給英文讀者聽。所以它的字面意思跟它的定義完全重疊。
Wiktionary 'stir-fry' etymology (supplied in evidence packet, kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1108050606)
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