What oil do you use for cooking?
By beeeckie
@beeeckie (802)
United States
July 3, 2008 3:58pm CST
My girlfriend and I use olive oil or flax oil, or a bit of both. The regular corn or vegetable oil doesn't cut it for us, and while olive and flax are a bit pricey, you can taste the difference. Plus, flax oil has omega-3, woot!
6 responses
@nicholejade (2430)
• Canada
3 Jul 08
It really all depends on what I am making and what oil that needs to be used with it. I use olive oil, flax oil, peanut oil, corn oil etc etc. Whatever the recipe calls for or whatever tastes better in the recipe I will use that kind of oil.
@fluffnflowers (1594)
• United States
4 Jul 08
Depends, for me. I use olive oil for a lot of sauce bases and in salad dressings. I use grapeseed for baking and for sauteeing things I don't want a stronger flavor in. I use sesame oil for more ethnic cuisines. I will, occasionally, use soybean oil for frying things.
Olive oil is probably my favorite, though!
@sassygirlanne007 (4517)
• United States
3 Jul 08
![Vegatable oil - Vegetable fats and oils are substances derived from plants that are composed of triglycerides. Nominally, oils are liquid at room temperature, and fats are solid; a dense brittle fat is called a wax. Although many different parts of plants may yield oil, [1] in actual commercial practice oil is extracted primarily from the seeds of oilseed plants.](http://img.mylot.com/350x350/1977470.jpg "Vegatable oil - Vegetable fats and oils are substances derived from plants that are composed of triglycerides. Nominally, oils are liquid at room temperature, and fats are solid; a dense brittle fat is called a wax. Although many different parts of plants may yield oil, [1] in actual commercial practice oil is extracted primarily from the seeds of oilseed plants.")
me and my mom always have used vegetable oil but also on occasion we will use olive oil when we can afford it.
@Emma30587 (402)
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3 Jul 08
Ive started using olive oil purely because, with all the shop prices going up, its now cheaper to buy olive oil in the UK!
@Emma30587 (402)
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4 Jul 08
Yes Europe produces corn. But the prices have gone up so much. We have chickens that we feed corn and the price has shot up.
