I am currently cooking with: animal fat, macadmia oil, almond oil and coconut oil
I am using these oils not only because of the better taste but because they hold a high heat temperature threshold compared to regular oils...
What are your thoughts..?
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Thread: Cooking with animal fat
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02-04-2013, 02:59 AM #1
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02-04-2013, 03:02 AM #2
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02-04-2013, 04:55 AM #7
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02-04-2013, 06:10 AM #8
That's a myth.
Virgin olive oil smoke point is 200ºC/400ºF. You never reach that temperature when cooking (maybe you could if you are completely unexperienced chef), unless you are deep frying or something similar.
I have measured the temperature of the oil in the oven & pan when cooking and it's never over 150ºC, so olive oil is safe for cooking, at least under my experiments.
Coconut oil smoke point is lower than olive oil, unless you are talking about refined coconut oil.
Macadamia oil is only 20ºC superior to olive oil. It makes no difference at 99% of the times when home cooking.
Conclusion: Olive oil is perfectly suitable for cooking, history shows that to us, mediterranean countries have used this oil for cooking for hundred years.
This is bad for USA corporations because they cant satisfy their demand, and they keep pushing the fact that "olive oil is bad for cooking, use randomoil instead".
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02-04-2013, 06:13 AM #9
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02-04-2013, 06:15 AM #10
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Which might be explained by the fact that saturated 18-carbon stearic acid and 16-carbon palmitic acid are the preferred fuels for the heart. These two saturated fats are I believe the most common. The fat around the heart muscle is highly saturated and the heart draws on this reserve in times of stress.
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02-04-2013, 06:18 AM #11
I wasn't disregarding saturated fat, I have a middle ground opinion about that.
Just olive oil is more nutritious than lard or butter by far (if you disagree I would like to read your opinion about that)
Btw dont be offended Wonderpug as I appreciate you as bb user but that pic is bull**** and you should know it.
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02-04-2013, 06:21 AM #12
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