Friday, 18 September 2009
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Daily Q: What's Your Preferred Cooking Oil?
When it's appropriate, as with any Italian or Mediterranean, I'm an olive oil person. For more general cooking, though, I prefer peanut oil. It's a bit more expensive than canola or vegetable, but it makes fried foods quicker and crispier and tends to leave everything a little less greasy.
What cooking oil do you like to use?
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I use olive for just about everything. It's better for you.
Depends on the dish, really.
Different fats have different properties and different flavors and effects they impart to the food being cooked.
For example, when doing high heat sears or deep frying, smoke point is a definite concern. And oils like Sesame Oil taste great on certain foods, but unless you are careful when cooking with it, it can ignite easily and impart an unwanted flavor to dishes that shouldn't have that flavor. When cooking dishes where the flavor of the oil is important, this must be considered -- you wouldn't use Canola to make something that really should require Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
And truth be told, as unhealthy as it is, sometimes things really should be made with Lard or rendered Bacon Fat for what they do to a dish's flavor and texture.
Generally though, I like to stick to more flavor-neutral oils with a reasonably high smoke point that I can buy for cheap in bulk at Costco. Peanut Oil is nice to use, but it's not feasible to use all the time. I usually keep somewhere around 7 or 8 different cooking fats in my kitchen at all times for different uses.
Depending on the dish, I like Greek olive oil. but don't really mind about cooking oil
The only thing I cook is eggs, so... yeah, I use olive oil instead of butter. Seems healthier.
Olive oil.
Extra virgin olive oil. Sometimes peanut and sesame oil if I'm making an Asian dish.
I would love to always use olive oil, but in some dishes it just doesn't fit too well, especially since it tends to leave a stronger taste. I use canola oil whenever I can't use olive. Just a matter of convenience.
I use peanut oil and olive oil, but mostly peanut oil. It also seems to be the most economic because I buy it in huge canisters.
Extra virgin olive oil.
extra virgin olive oil!
Olive and peanut, depending on the application.
Rice bran oil. I hate the smell and taste of olive oil, whether it's extra virgin or not. Rice bran is supposedly the next best thing so that's what we have.
- Macadamia Nut Oil & Extra Virgin Olive Oil!
im an EVOO girl! for everything!
Olive oil or Vegetable oil
Safflower oil is perfect. It has a high smoke temp, a light, underwhelming taste, and costs far less than olive oil.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and vegetable oil for frying.
I use olive oil for EVERYTHING, but my second choice and I actually use it just as much is Coconut oil.
EVOO!
Although peanut oil is nice, but so is sesame, coconut, and hazlenut (which is crazy expensive). And if I want a really neutral tasting oil I get safflower b/c it has less saturated fat.
EVOO!!
Coconut oil tastes good.... mmmm
Extra virgin olive oil. (: Peanut oil sounds pretty good now though.
i heard sunflower oil is really good so i think im gonna try that
I've always used EVOO but have been trying to branch out over the last couple years. Still haven't found anything I like better, though.
Olive oil :)
I tend to use canola more than anything.