Your stir fry oil choice?

[Merlin5]

I used to buy Tesco's 'stir fry oil' for a while, which has ginger oil, sesame oil, and sunflower oil in it. Recently been using olive oil but I've learned that it's actually not good for stir fry and that any oils which don't have a high enough smoke point can break down and be carcinogenic.

Apparently peanut oil is the best and used by chinese chefs, sold here as groundnut oil. Nearly bought some but it's fairly expensive and the bottle wasn't nice and slim. In the end I decided to buy this

based on this article
http://wokexpress.co.nz/the-best-worst-cooking-oil-for-stir-frying/

as apparently it has a very high smoke point and has a neutral taste.

What do you use?

 

[tom_e]

Coconut oil

 

[Merlin5]

Coconut oil

Yeah, I read that's good for stir fry.

 

[lord filbuster]

I always use peanut oil.

 

[bruce]

Unrefined coconut oil. Expensive but tasty and unaffected by high heat.
Extra virgin olive oil...reasonably cheap, smoke point of around 200C, so no problem in using it for stir fries.
I use these 50/50, stir fries always taste great.

 

[Jokester]

I use either ground nut oil or ghee. Ghee has a lovely smell/taste to it.

 

[robj20]

Groundnut oil.

 

[Lupis]

Peanut/ground nut oil.

 

[Muban]

Cold pressed rapeseed oil. Fairly neutral, mild nutty flavour. Can be used for all sorts of things so it's the only oil I use these days.

 

[Participant]

Clarified butter or vegetable oil, flavoured with sesame oil at the end.

Can't use peanut oil as I'm allergic to nuts /failatgenetics

 

[Glaucus]

Beef dripping or coconut.

 

[Mr Jones]

Sunflower oil / Veg oil. Finished with Sesame oil.

I'm not made of money to use fancy oil nearly everyday for home cooking.

 

[panthro]

Ground nut, always.

 

[D.P.]

Sesame oil for stir fries.

 

[pitchfork]

Peanut oil from the Chinese shop, that way I know it's peanut oil and not some other kind of ground nut.

 

[Dave]

Sunflower oil / Veg oil. Finished with Sesame oil.

Same as this.

 

[krooton]

Groundnut, finish with sesame (if it works with the dish).

 

[boxman2000]

I use either ground nut oil or ghee. Ghee has a lovely smell/taste to it.

Absolutely this.

Out of interest, how long do you keep your ghee for once opened?

 

[pitchfork]

Ghee lasts months and months - it's fat, fat is a natural preservative in itself.

It's for this reason butter needn't be kept in the fridge.

 

[monkeyspank]

rapeseed, although I probably prefer groundnut oil, rapeseed is grown locally