Cooking Oil for use in a Wok

Jokester · 16 Jan 2011 at 14:39

Bought some of Tesco's groundnut oil, worked a treat the other night..

Raikiri · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:13

Jonny69 said:
Uh, isn't the whole point of stir frying to make stir fried food, where sesame oil is one of the key flavours?

Well you can add it as flavouring, but generally it's too overpowering to cook in. You don't taste anything else.

Bear · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:14

Jokester said:
Aye, I've got sesame oil, never thought to use it for anything other to add flavour. Is bog standard veg oil ok for the high temperatures?

Never use sesame oil to cook with, its an oil you use to give food taste when you serve it up. If you use it to cook with in the wok it give give your food a burnt taste as the oil will burn.

tntcoder · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:19

Is there any truth to olive oil becoming slightly carcinogenic when over heated?

meghatronic · 16 Jan 2011 at 15:49

tntcoder said:
Is there any truth to olive oil becoming slightly carcinogenic when over heated?

Well technically anything is carcinogenic when over heated. Probably to do with xenobiotics/polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.