Great. What's that in normal units?
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Rice Bran oil is my fave with a smoke point of 232 °C (450 °F) and it holds up a long time. I also use it for deep frying. Its not well known in the west and its really great.
Thanks, much more informative than the original graph
Units aside. Much better overview without those ridiculously large icons that dominate the image and give no information whatsoever.
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Wait, rapeseed refers to canola? Who the FUCK thought to name that rape seed?
Also sesame oil is supposed to be a finishing oil :(
The term "rape" derives from the Latin word for turnip, rāpa or rāpum, cognate with the Greek word ῥάφη, rhaphe.
Wtf...the smoke point of various cooking oils based on temperate, as per Allstate..with the disclaimer that the smoking point may vary based on temperature.
This is some insurance level 4d nonsense lol
If you're cooking fresh oil over low heat, these smoke points are probably accurate. If you are using a high heat, the oil may start to smoke before the thermometer reads those temps. That's what it means by "based on... cooking temperature."
You're right that the disclaimer is intended to absolve them of any responsibility, though.
As with all (somewhat) natural ingredients, it's impossible to get 100% consistent results. It's just when you boil an egg wrong, it's very unlikely to go up in flames.
Behold the average insurance customer:
I would not heat up olive oil to that point.
The table is missing Rapeseed oil.
And: Fahrenheit! What the f...ck?
Is Rapeseed and canola not the same thing? I’m not familiar with rapeseed oil as an American.
I had never heard of canola before. But I learned today that this is a Canadian brand name of rapeseed oil.
Where's Avocado Oil or Ghee butter?T
I was going to say there the same thing, but apparently they are/aren't - https://www.tastingtable.com/1066770/are-canola-and-rapeseed-oil-the-same-thing/
Seems canola is a modified rapeseed plant.
What about grape seed and avocados
Grape seed - 421 °F
Avocado - Refined 520 °F
Avocado - Virgin (unrefined) 392 °F
Avocado - Extra virgin (unrefined) 482 °F
Using Fahrenheit 🤡
Allstate is an American company, yes.
It’s missing my favorite cooking oil: Lard.
I'll follow this one before that garbage, I'm yet to use sunflower oil that performed worse than canola. Not sure what garbage they are pretending to reference, perhaps some shit Russians stole from Ukraine and shipped off to US?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smoke_point_of_cooking_oils
Edit: slight side note, as the above may be interpreted in different ways. I've only ever bought Sunflower oil produced in Ukraine while in Canada, all of it has been high quality. Have seen some from Balkans (IIRC?) but it was cloudy so didn't even bother trying it. Not saying it's an inherent country of origin issue there, more like Walmart trying to find some cheap shit to make money off of. I think Italy was the only other country I saw as a source once and that was just ridiculously priced, mostly because it was mixed with olive oil.
Fahrenfuck
Whats the smoke point of butter? It always seems to burn when i cook with it.
Butter is great for general cooking but not frying. What is burning is the milk solids still left in the butter. Browning butter (basically lightly frying the milk solids) is a process that can be used to impart at different flavor to the butter.
If you want to fry with that buttery flavor but don’t want to burn it, you need to clarify it first: boil out the remaining water content, skim the milk solids off the top, then pour the clear fat off the other milk solids that settle out. Or you can just use ghee, which is basically preclarified butter.
Fun fact: it’s the milk solids that go off first in butter (and the water content allows microbial growth). “Potting” is a preservation technique like “canning”, except instead of sealing something with a metal lid, you pour clarified butter over the food. It fills in gaps between solid pieces and forms a cap on top as it cools.
I feel like I gained eldritch knowledge. I'm buying ghee and going back to frying everything in it.
Depending on what you're cooking, that is a desirable feature -- well, riding right on that threshold.
Note that burnt butter is distinctly bad for your health. All those complex proteins and fats all getting thrown through the chemical grinder... But damn is it tasty to fry a perogy in almost burnt butter compared to any of the oils in that chart...
Odd... I've always seen soybean oil as having a higher smoke point of ~450F
Shout out to algae cooking oil, weighing in at 535 F (280 C) https://algaecookingclub.com/products/algae-cooking-oil
I use it when cooking high heat, and also a few drops to season my cast iron
I’ve started throwing my cast iron into the barbecue while I heat it up before grilling (I heat to 500 for 15-20 mins or so then clean the bbq, then grill, which is perfect for a quick season with most oils)
It’s a great time saver for seasoning it.
I can now reliably do omelettes in the cast iron without any sticking, it actually works better than my non stick
Thanks for the info. If I ever see it cheaper at the store maybe I'll try it out. Sounds promising but the price sounds a bit steep.
Refined Corn Oil is as high as 460° F