Man of Honour
Olive oil for most of our cooking.
Sometimes sunflower oil or butter.
Sometimes sunflower oil or butter.
Which oil do you use for cooking?
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Tesco Olive Oil "light and mild" (orange label)
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Olive Oil - okay for cooking at low temperatures
Extra virgin olive oil - salad oil (not a cooking oil, very bad for cooking with, possibly extremely bad for your health)
Virgin olive oil - same as above
personally i just use ground nut oil for everything - its the best of everything and cheap.
Extra virgin olive oil - salad oil (not a cooking oil, very bad for cooking with, possibly extremely bad for your health)
Virgin olive oil - same as above
personally i just use ground nut oil for everything - its the best of everything and cheap.
Soldato
Is it really the case that the extra virgin olive oil is the bad one to cook with? I would have thought it was the regular olive oil that is bad, as it has more sediment thus a lower burning temperature.
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Olive oil is the main cooking oil in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
Extra virgin olive oil is mostly used as a salad dressing and as an ingredient in salad dressings. It is also used with foods to be eaten cold. If uncompromised by heat, the flavor is stronger. It also can be used for sautéing.
The higher the temperature to which the olive oil is heated, the more one should prefer the use of refined olive oils. When extra virgin olive oil is heated above 350 °F (177 °C), the unrefined particles within the oil are burned.
Soldato
Ground nut oil when frying foods (i.e. eggs etc) and also for stirfry.
Vegetable or olive oil for virtually everything else.
Vegetable or olive oil for virtually everything else.
Soldato
Been using Carotino oil recently, it's pretty good to cook with.
It does sometimes make the food orange-y, sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes not
It does sometimes make the food orange-y, sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes not
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im pretty sure they are the same thing, unless the taste can be removed from peanut oil? dunno im not an expert, just know that ground nut oil is the best to use in most situations and that its made from peanuts.
Man of Honour
I'm pretty sure they are exactly the same.
Man of Honour
Looks like I might be wrong then.
Soldato
Recently been buying Borderfields rapeseed oil and using it for everything...
I think it has a nice taste and it's worked for everything we've cooked so far.
*flameproof jacket*
I like that it's not had to travel from another country also, carbon footprint and all that...
I think it has a nice taste and it's worked for everything we've cooked so far.
*flameproof jacket*
I like that it's not had to travel from another country also, carbon footprint and all that...
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Soldato
does anyone know where to buy BIG bottles of groundnut oil? Asda only do 500ml bottles, tesco only 1l bottles and costco dont have it 
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does anyone know where to buy BIG bottles of groundnut oil? Asda only do 500ml bottles, tesco only 1l bottles and costco dont have it
i know my local makro has big bottles, but they worked out more expensive than buying like 5 bottles from asda.
why do you need so much?
Soldato
I read that you shouldn't cook with rapeseed oil and that it should only be used in salads/dressing.
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Then what you were reading was talking pap
Rapeseed is one of the true good for everything oils. Great for shallow frying (pretty sure you can even deep fry with it), and great for baking veg etc.
Soldato
Then what you were reading was talking pap
Rapeseed is one of the true good for everything oils. Great for shallow frying (pretty sure you can even deep fry with it), and great for baking veg etc.
It is on the back of the bottle we have - shouldn't be used in cooking for pregnant women or women trying to conceive.
Still prefer to use ground nut oil myself
