General Purpose Cooking Oil
On 9/25/2016 1:52 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 3:42:24 AM UTC-10, Steve Freides
>> wrote:
>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 4:02:30 AM UTC-10,
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> For the last decade or so, we've bought exactly one oil to keep in
>>>>> our kitchen, a non-EV olive from Trader Joe's. We're now
>>>>> considering alternatives. I tried canola oil - seems fine. We
>>>>> mostly use it to sautée but also use it wherever and whenever we
>>>>> need, e.g., baking, on salads, frying. I'm considering keeping
>>>>> one oil for cooking and getting some EV olive oil for salads.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your thoughts appreciated, and thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> -S-
>>>>
>>>> My daughter made a chocolate cake with almost a cup of coconut oil.
>>>> It tastes like coconut chocolate cake. I used some on my hair
>>>> yesterday. It works pretty good on hair too. Smelled great when
>>>> first put on - later on it smelled like candle wax.
>>>
>>> Refined coconut oil is better for things that you don't want to taste
>>> like coconut. We keep a jar of each here.
>>>
>>> -S-
>>
>> There's nothing wrong with chocolate coconut cake except that using
>> coconut oil as flavoring is way too costly. Refined coconut oil with
>> no coconut flavoring seems to be the worst of two worlds.
>
> Coconut is very good for you -
Who says?
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