Your stir fry oil choice?

[Stan_Lite]

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.

I mostly use groundnut oil but I agree with Muban. Rapeseed oil is a very good all purpose oil.

 

[JBuk]

Veg oil

I sometimes add some truffle oil too, gives a lovely aroma to the dish

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Depends what Im cooking tbh, ones I have readily available

Coconut oil
Vegetable oil
ground nut oil

 

[DirtyJester]

Coconut oil

 

[oli collett]

I thought unrefined coconut oil had a low smoke point?

 

[randomshenans]

ground nut or sesame, depending on what I have to hand/ in cupboard

 

[ttaskmaster]

Canola oil with optional sesame oil.
That's what all our Chinese restaurants use and is recommended by our local See Woo Foods.

 

[Squid]

Canola / Rapeseed is horrible cheap nasty stuff.

They tried to rebrand band it as a health oil.

Unfortunately lot's and lot's processed food now include it and its hard to avoid.

The great growing conditions in the uk for this crop have also led this to become the default additive in "Vegetable Oil" when its really not due to its cheap price.

A growing number people finding items high in rapeseed oil (including myself) cause IBS like symptoms. Switching to different items using different oil's i have no issue ( sunflower/olive oil mayo).

Buts it's harder and harder to find food products its not being added too / fried in.

Fish & Chips / Dominos / Mayos / Coleslaws / Pastries etc.

rant over...

 

[bruce]

I thought unrefined coconut oil had a low smoke point?

Approx 90% of the fatty acids in coconut oil are saturated, which makes it very resistant to heat.

Cheap rapeseed and general seed oils are terrible for your health. They contain at least 1.5% trans fats just through the way they're processed...and worse, once cooled then brought back to temp (as in deep fryers), it breaks down further creating more trans fats....these are the ones that are factors in heart disease etc, and not saturated fat.

Unbelievably we're still told that seed oils are healthy.

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

Either Coconut Oil or Waitrose 'Wok Oil' (sunflower blended with sesame and ginger) depending on what I'm cooking.

Interesting discussion though. Finishing with sesame seems to be a popular choice, might have to get hold of a bottle

 

[Jokester]

Yeah, it's got a nice flavour to it.