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Cooking oil (also known as edible oil) is a plant or animal liquid fat used in frying, baking, and other types of cooking. Oil allows higher cooking temperatures than water, making cooking faster and more flavorful, while likewise distributing heat, reducing burning and uneven cooking. It sometimes imparts its own flavor. Cooking oil is also ...
Cooking Sesame oil (semi-refined) 14% 43% 43% 0.3 41% 232 °C (450 °F) Cooking, deep frying Soybean oil: 15% 24% 61% 6.7% 50% 240 °C (464 °F) [4] Cooking, salad dressings, vegetable oil, margarine, shortening Sunflower oil (high oleic, refined) [11] 9% 82% 9% 0.2% 3.6% 244 °C (471 °F) [4] Frying, cooking [12] Sunflower oil (linoleic ...
Cooking spray is a spray form of an oil as a lubricant, lecithin as an emulsifier, and a propellant such as nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide or propane. Cooking spray is applied to frying pans and other cookware to prevent food from sticking. [1] Traditionally, cooks use butter, shortening, or oils poured or rubbed on cookware. [2]
Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and is used to make crumbly pastry and other food products. The idea of shortening dates back to at least the 18th century, well before the invention of modern, shelf-stable vegetable shortening. [1] In the earlier centuries, lard was the primary ingredient used to shorten dough. [2]
Introduced in June 1911 [1] by Procter & Gamble, it was the first shortening to be made entirely of vegetable oil, originally cottonseed oil. Additional products marketed under the Crisco brand include a cooking spray, various olive oils, and other cooking oils, including canola, corn, peanut, sunflower, and blended oils.
Cottonseed oil, used as a salad and cooking oil, both domestically and industrially. [8] Olive oil, used in cooking, cosmetics, soaps, and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps. Palm oil, the most widely produced tropical oil. [9] Popular in West African and Brazilian cuisine. [10] Also used to make biofuel. [11]
The flour is added to the melted fat or oil on the stove top, blended until smooth, and cooked to the desired level of brownness. A roux can be white, blond (darker), or brown. Butter, bacon drippings, or lard are commonly used fats. Roux is used as a thickening agent for gravy, sauces, soups, and stews. It provides the base for a dish, and ...
Avocado oil: Unrefined: 250 °C: 482 °F [4] Beef tallow: 250 °C: 480 °F Butter: 150 °C: 302 °F [5] Butter: Clarified: 250 °C: 482 °F [6] Castor oil: Refined: 200 °C [7] 392 °F Coconut oil: Refined, dry: 204 °C: 400 °F [8] Coconut oil: Unrefined, dry expeller pressed, virgin: 177 °C: 350 °F [8] Corn oil: 230–238 °C [9] 446–460 ...