What Oil Do You Use For Frying?

[Camu Mahubah]

French fries today fried in corn oil. Very good. Had a slightly buttery taste...

Wanted to try something different besides vegetable oil which is prolly soybean oil if you are in America.

When the wife cooks she frys! I myself prefer baked foods with slightly heated olive oil splashed on the dish as it comes out of the oven be it breaded chicken or french fires...

 

[Quattro Pete]

We typically use Smart Balance or sunflower oil if I can find it. But we don't deep fry anything.. just a little bit at the bottom of the pan to prevent sticking.

 

[helix_rider]

Good Ole Crisco.

Probably not good for you, but then what is these days..

 

[The motor guy]

10w40

 

[Silver_civic]

I believe my grandmother on real fathers side always used/still uses bacon grease. She's pretty healthy still at 81 yrs old, no health problems.

adam

 

[justinf89]

t6

 

[spasm3]

canola oil, for veal cutlets i use olive oil.

 

[cryption]

Bacon grease or nothing!

 

[Camu Mahubah]

Originally Posted By: cryption
Bacon grease or nothing!


Really? Yummy French fries I bet...

 

[spasm3]

Originally Posted By: cryption
Bacon grease or nothing!


oh my lord! thats an acute MI waiting to happen!!

 

[heathenbrewing]

When i do fry, its only on a pan.

Either EV coconut oil or EV olive oil.

Life is too short for anything else.

 

[heathenbrewing]

Originally Posted By: cryption
Bacon grease or nothing!


Hmmm...gives me an idea...

Pop some corn in bacon grease and then add bits of bacon to it.

Bacon popcorn? Sounds like the second coming!

 

[Silk]

I use either grapeseed or olive oil,both are around the same price (I get them on special,whichever one is lowest),and only about a $1 more than the cheap oils.

 

[Shannow]

Back when we fried french fries (maybe once a year), peanut oil with a block of beef dripping in it...fish and chips once a week for a couple of weeks, then nothing deep fried for the rest of the year (no reason really).

These days, crumbed lamb cutlets are 50%50 EVOO and butter, and are the closest to frying.

Wedges of potato sprayed with olive oil and baked.

Baked spuds in whatever fat drips from the roast meat.

 

[Silk]

Ghee is great - food tastes much cleaner cooked in ghee,which is hard to imagine being made from butter.

 

[Shannow]

more like "extracted from butter" than made from butter.

Sound point 'though

 

[CivicFan]

Deep Fry (french fries, catfish or green tomatoes): corn or canola oil.

Saute: olive oil or olive oil mixed with butter.

 

[tdpark]

Corn oil and EV Olive oil. Peanut oil for deep frying the turkey

 

[Malo83]

EV Olive Oil.

 

[Camu Mahubah]

Originally Posted By: Silk
Ghee is great - food tastes much cleaner cooked in ghee,which is hard to imagine being made from butter.


Ghee? I've never heard of it...sounds good though but the wife is vegan but I still might try it...