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ELI5 why can you fry things in oil but not in boiling water?
gpt
When liquid water hits 100 C (212 F), it stops getting hotter.
If you add more energy into the liquid water, that energy goes towards turning the liquid water into a gas rather than making the water hotter.    

The chemical reactions involved in frying tend to happen at temperatures above 100 C.  
  
For most oils the boiling temperatures is well above 100 C.  
Though you rarely reach it. Most of the bubbling in oil is water that was mixed with the food boiling.