my friend was talking about this and stated that water is wet and oil is dry. what does this mean?
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Oil does not contain water. It’s actually hydrophobic, and water repells it.
When foods are cooked with water, the water can disolve parts of the food its in contact with. This is why some food gets soggy when boiled or cooked in water.
Food cooked in oil is normally crispy as a comparison.
“Wet” means “water”, not just “liquid”.
Most cooking liquids (sauces, dips, stuff like that) are mostly made of water, so they still count as “wet”.
Oil has no water in it, and therefore isn’t wet.
“Dry” in this circumstance really only means “not water.”
Oil may be a liquid but its physical and chemical properties are very unlike water so it behaves very differently.
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