/ck/ - Food & Cooking

What is the best way to fry onions?

can we have a brief discussion on the meaning of this phrase? i have tried to talk with people about this before and they had no clue what i meant.

>technique A
>medium to high heat
>sauted for 5 to 10 minutes
>results in browned savory onions

>technique B
>low heat
>slowly cooked for 2 to 3 hours
>results in sticky sweet onions

These are clearly two different processes resulting in two very different type of onions yet people seem to call both "caramelizing onions"
Is there another word that we can use? Because the two are NOT the same.