On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:49:13 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Julia Altshuler > wrote:
>
>> Now I"m thinking that this should be called "pan frying" or
>> "griddle frying."
>
>To me, pan frying is covering a black iron skillet with ordinary salt
>about one crystal deep with perhaps some black showing through, heating
>the pan on high till the salt actually starts to brown (smoking hot) and
>adding steak.

In some books, I have heard this method referred to as griddling.

Christine