Do you use the lard to cook?

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@youless (112100)
Guangzhou, China
September 23, 2022 8:16am CST
There are many kinds of oils today, such as corn oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, olive oil etc. But how about the lard? Do you use it to cook? In the past it might be much more common for us to use lard to cook, but not today. As people get used to use the peanut oil or corn oil much more. I heard that actually there are many benefits to use the lard. Tonight I tried to make it and it was quite easy. That's cool I can get another kind of oil to cook.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
23 Sep 22
When I was a kid, my mom used lard to cook with but, if I use any oil at all, I prefer olive oil.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
23 Sep 22
Usually I will use the olive oil to make a pizza or garlic bread.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
23 Sep 22
@youless I use butter for garlic bread.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Sep 22
@DaddyEvil Butter is even better for garlic bread
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@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
24 Sep 22
I used to use lard but it has such abad reputation I changed to canola or olive oil.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Sep 22
It seems its bad reputation has changed now.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Sep 22
@RubyHawk That's true
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@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
25 Sep 22
@youless Food information is always changing.Whats good one year is bad the next.
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@LadyDuck (457315)
• Switzerland
24 Sep 22
My grandmother used lard to cook and it was an healthy alternative to butter. I do not use because my husband does not want pork.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Sep 22
Perhaps today you use olive oil much more.
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@LadyDuck (457315)
• Switzerland
25 Sep 22
@youless Most Italians have always used olive oil more than butter. My mother (and her mother) were from an Italian region where butter and pork are more used than in other Italian regions.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
25 Sep 22
I have never used peanut oil. Guess it’s very aromatic?
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Sep 22
Actually peanut oil is quite popular here and it is also much more expensive than other vegetable oil like corn oil and sunflower oil. It is just less expensive than the olive oil.
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@1creekgirl (40385)
• United States
30 Sep 22
I don't remember ever using peanut oil.
@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
25 Sep 22
@youless it’s probably also expensive here
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29 Sep 22
Lard is good. I use tallow in all my cooking an frying. I get beef fat from the butcher's and make tallow from beef fat drippings. I never use polyunsaturated cooking oils ( vegetable oil, sunflower, canola, cotton seed oil, soy beans oil, rice bran oil...). The Greatest American Lies - The Oiling of America and Heart Disease
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
29 Sep 22
Beef fat is nice because the dishes will smell great.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
29 Sep 22
@everwonderwhy Totally agree to it
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29 Sep 22
@youless Tastes great, too. :-)
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
23 Sep 22
I am sure it is still in stores here, but I honestly don't know anyone that uses it. These days most people use vegetable or olive oil.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
23 Sep 22
You are right. Today the vegetable oils are much more common.
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
24 Sep 22
@youless I don't even know anyone who uses Crisco anymore.
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@1creekgirl (40385)
• United States
24 Sep 22
@porwest I use canola oil or butter, but Dale does use Crisco (the all vegetable one) for frying fish.
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@May2k8 (18049)
• Indonesia
29 Sep 22
We will never use lard here because anything containing pork should not be consumed by Muslim. Mostly using palm oil or coconut oil here...
@1creekgirl (40385)
• United States
24 Sep 22
I'm pretty sure lard is very unhealthy. My grandmother years ago made the best biscuits with lard, but I've always used canola oil.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
25 Sep 22
Canola oil is not as common as other vegetable oil. Today it seems the tea seeds oil is supposed to be very healthy. I am not sure about it anyway.
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@Namelesss (3368)
• United States
23 Sep 22
Butter, lard and bacon grease are far superior to all those liquid oils. I use them when I have them but I don't use a lot or often.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Sep 22
Bacon grease is a new type for me.
@yoalldudes (35040)
• Philippines
23 Sep 22
I use vegetable oil. I feel lard is high in cholesterol.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
23 Sep 22
The discovery found that the lard has some benefits.
@Beestring (13283)
• Hong Kong
23 Sep 22
I use olive oil or corn oil. Lard may be too fatty.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
23 Sep 22
We tend to think that the lard is too fatty and unhealthy. But today if you search some information and probably you will change your mind
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