Thread: What is the best cooking oil on the market?

Good afternoon.

Whilst my wife is a great cook able to produce delicious and varied cuisine she uses a cooking oil which smells strange particularly when she is frying eggs, bacon and particularly chips. The chips have a strange flavour which is not a favourite of mine.

As I am a complete novice in the kitchen I cannot make any suggestions to her so I ask the experienced kitchen hands here what is the best oil to fry good old fashioned fish and chips in?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Lard would be the best if you can find it, Pattaya you should be able to find the Lard.

Who the fuck actually fries in lard ffs

You guys fry french fries in straight up pig fat?

Sunflower oil does for me.

^^ Not french fries. Chips.

French fries are those stringy little bastards that don't take to vinegar.

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

Lard would be the best if you can find it, Pattaya you should be able to find the Lard.

Yes...I would agree but I tend to use Olive Oil or a knob of Butter for all my cooking need.

I steer clear of Vegetable and some of the other types of oils https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/comm...cer-nightmare/

Originally Posted by boloa

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

Lard would be the best if you can find it, Pattaya you should be able to find the Lard.

Yes...I would agree but I tend to use Olive Oil or a knob of Butter for all my cooking need.

I steer clear of Vegetable and some of the other types of oils https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/comm...cer-nightmare/

Yeah - but olive oil has a low smoke point if I recall correctly. Not great for chips.

For chips I would go with sunflower oil - high smoke point, and high monounsaturated fats.

PS: by going over the olive oil smoke point, you are doing way more harm than good!

Olive Extra Virgin Oil is the best and healthiest oil on the market the rest is heart attack oil ,

Originally Posted by boloa

Yes...I would agree but I tend to use Olive Oil or a knob of Butter for all my cooking need.

For some things requiring lower temperatures that works but for frying at high temperatures you need an oil that won't burn.

I always use canola or sunflower oil because it is healthier than the soybean oil that is most widely available here. It also has no unpleasant odor.

Originally Posted by Slick

Who the fuck actually fries in lard ffs

I know this will be difficult for you to process, but your life split between the rigs and isaan has actually left you somewhat behind the times.

Originally Posted by cyrille

I know this will be difficult for you to process, but your life split between the rigs and isaan has actually left you somewhat behind the times.

Ive been on this earth long enough and eaten quite a lot of food considering I'm still alive, and I can't recall ever seeing someone plonk down a gob of lard & cook fucking french fries in it.

I certainly haven't ever done it. Ill cook some eggs in the pan drippings from cooking bacon but thats about as far as I would go.

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

In my parents day , they used lard.....and they seemed happier for it.

I actually cannot recall what my mum used - but to this day I can remember "the chip pan". Great big encrusted thing, I honestly doubt it was ever emptied and washed - just topped up now and again....

worth a read:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...-perfect-chips

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by boloa

Yes...I would agree but I tend to use Olive Oil or a knob of Butter for all my cooking need.

For some things requiring lower temperatures that works but for frying at high temperatures you need an oil that won't burn.

Buy the good stuff https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-...live-oil/30470

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

As I am a complete novice in the kitchen I cannot make any suggestions to her so I ask the experienced kitchen hands here what is the best oil to fry good old fashioned fish and chips in?

I was going to suggest your integrity, as it's greasy enough, but if I was making fish and chips at home, I'd use coconut oil, if I could afford it, being a poor tefler after all.

You should vary your oils, imo - along with plenty of other things in life.

I tend to swing back and forth from:

canola, sesame, olive, coconut, butter and ghee.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

I was going to suggest your integrity, as it's greasy enough

:loleaginous:

I use corn or peanut oil. Bland and leaves no after taste. Avoid soybean oil. Leaves an after taste.
Good old fashioned lard is the only proper frying oil to use for mexican food. Should work great for those crispy outside fluffy inside English style chips as well.

Groundnut oil for fish and chips. This is what the better professional fryers use.

Originally Posted by hick

You should vary your oils, imo - along with plenty of other things in life.

I tend to swing back and forth from:

canola, sesame, olive, coconut, butter and ghee.

Sorry to disagree -but you should match your oils to what you are cooking.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

I'd use coconut oil, if I could afford it, being a poor tefler after all.

strip it off the trees out back

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

Olive Extra Virgin Oil is the best and healthiest oil on the market the rest is heart attack oil ,

Best for salads. But totally unsuited for frying. Frying needs refined oil.

For frying I usually use sunflower. Good quality.