coated side

These disks are fried with poppy coated side first into hot ghee.

Add the swordfish, coated side down, and cook until the bottom is browned and caramelized, about 3 minutes.

Add the oil or butter called for in the recipe and, when it shimmers, place the fillets, coated side down, in the pan.

Then, in a well-heated, well-oiled pan (a nonstick surface helps, but is not essential if the pan is hot enough), she sears the fillets, coated side down.

In this case the grating forms the distributed mirror on the antireflection coated side, while the semiconductor facet on the high reflectivity side forms the other mirror.

These tend to absorb heat without expanding as much as the organic components or the cellulose fibers, so the paper "curls" toward the coated side if only one side is coated.