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Al  
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 More options Jul 24, 3:45 am
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: Al <aebax...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45:09 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 3:45 am
Subject: Healthy cooking oils
I was just reading this article about healthy cooking oils:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/10028-top-cooking-oils/

I am familiar with all of these except Safflower Oil. What are the
best ways to cook with it? Can you recommend some great healthy dishes
that call for it? Thanks!


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Discussion subject changed to "Healthful cooking oils" by Mark Thorson
Mark Thorson  
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 More options Jul 24, 4:28 am
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From: Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:28:13 -0700
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 4:28 am
Subject: Re: Healthful cooking oils

Al wrote:

> I was just reading this article about healthy cooking oils:

> http://www.livestrong.com/article/10028-top-cooking-oils/

> I am familiar with all of these except Safflower Oil. What are the
> best ways to cook with it? Can you recommend some great healthy dishes
> that call for it? Thanks!

I used to use safflower oil as my main cooking oil,
but after noting how the spilled oil in the dish
I kept my bottle on turned into sort of a plastic,
I became concerned that perhaps it's a little too
unsaturated.  I switched to canola oil, which is
a monounsaturated oil.  It's completely bland,
and it isn't nearly so easily oxidized.

When I switched to a low carb diet, a side effect
was my oil consumption plunged to near zero.
I now keep a small bottle of olive oil around,
but it takes months to go through it.


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Discussion subject changed to "Healthy cooking oils" by Sheldon
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 More options Jul 24, 4:44 am
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From: Sheldon <PENMAR...@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:44:16 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 4:44 am
Subject: Re: Healthy cooking oils

Al wrote:
> I was just reading this article about healthy cooking oils:

And I clicked on this thread because I coulda sworn it said "Healthy
looking girls".

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Nancy2  
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 More options Jul 24, 4:53 am
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From: Nancy2 <nancy-doo...@uiowa.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 4:53 am
Subject: Re: Healthy cooking oils
On Jul 23, 2:45 pm, Al <aebax...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was just reading this article about healthy cooking oils:

> http://www.livestrong.com/article/10028-top-cooking-oils/

> I am familiar with all of these except Safflower Oil. What are the
> best ways to cook with it? Can you recommend some great healthy dishes
> that call for it? Thanks!

You can use it in anything that calls for vegetable oil, but I find it
rather expensive when you can use canola oil in the same way, and it's
just as "healthy," and also doesn't have any real flavor to it.

N.


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Billy  
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 More options Jul 24, 6:33 am
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From: Billy <Hereiam@hotmaildotcom>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:33:33 -0400
Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 6:33 am
Subject: Re: Healthy cooking oils
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45:09 -0700 (PDT), Al <aebax...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Can you recommend some great healthy dishes
>that call for it? Thanks!

"Healthy" is in the eyes of the beholder.     Some consider lard as a
natural frying medium.   Others, don't.  

Canola probably has the most "neutral" flavor for cooking.  


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Dimitri  
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 More options Jul 25, 3:57 am
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From: "Dimitri" <Dimitr...@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:57:10 -0700
Local: Fri, Jul 25 2008 3:57 am
Subject: Re: Healthy cooking oils

"Al" <aebax...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:d1117a15-14fd-4d50-99b0-b48e449a03f0@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

>I was just reading this article about healthy cooking oils:

> http://www.livestrong.com/article/10028-top-cooking-oils/

> I am familiar with all of these except Safflower Oil. What are the
> best ways to cook with it? Can you recommend some great healthy dishes
> that call for it? Thanks!

The article is quite incomplete.

it talks about cooking oils but does not give the proper information.

Cooking with oils involves knowing the "smoke point"
Look here:

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/50/Smoke-Points-of-Various...

If you burn the oil (surpass the smoke point) the oil will give the food an
unpleasant taste - the exception of course being butter - where burning the
butter lightly will give a very nice nutty flavor.

--
Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)


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Blinky the Shark  
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 More options Jul 25, 6:59 am
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From: Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:59:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: Healthy cooking oils

Is this the "nutty flavor" that I've seen referred to with various types
of cheeses that I've never encountered with those types?  I'm not falling
for *that* again, when I'm in the cheese department.  :)

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Dimitri  
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 More options Jul 25, 8:06 am
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From: "Dimitri" <Dimitr...@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:06:59 -0700
Local: Fri, Jul 25 2008 8:06 am
Subject: Re: Healthy cooking oils

"Blinky the Shark" <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote in message
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>> If you burn the oil (surpass the smoke point) the oil will give the food
>> an
>> unpleasant taste - the exception of course being butter - where burning
>> the
>> butter lightly will give a very nice nutty flavor.

> Is this the "nutty flavor" that I've seen referred to with various types
> of cheeses that I've never encountered with those types?  I'm not falling
> for *that* again, when I'm in the cheese department.  :)

> --
> Blinky

Also called brown butter sauce>

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1750,147190-231206,00.html

I use it all the time to reheat blanched and shocked asparagus.

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(AKA Dimitri)


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