fryer

A machine or container for frying food.

• He learned to work the fryer as part of becoming a competent cook for a commercial kitchen.

A fish suitable for frying.

A young chicken suitable for frying; a pullet or cockerel.

• […] it also had a yellow beak. Which meant it wasn't a layer anymore and was okay to eat. Nowadays we get yellow-legged fryers.

One who fries.

• The dolphin was also borne by the family of Fryer, with reference, as Mr. Moule suggests, to the fry or swarm of fishes (or was not their ancestor an excellent fryer of fish?); […]
• The sale is conducted on the principle of what is termed a “Dutch auction,” purchasers not being allowed to inspect the fish in the doubles before they bid. Offal is bought only by the “fryers.”