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    Default What do you use for frying?

    Just looking ahead to my morning fry, and realising that I have run out of lard, what do the honorable members us for frying?
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    Lard?

    Hmm, why does Scotland have the highest rate of heart disease in the EU I wonder?

    Here in the soft south I fry my black pudding in olive oil. Its my own personal take on multiculturalism
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    the correct answers are lard, butter, and olive oil.
    now i'm here, and history is vindicated.

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    Usually good olive oil. Butter for eggs. Often I'll mix a little butter in with the olive oil. That's always nice. For high heat I use peanut oil.

    I never use lard. It's simply not popular here, not part of our culinary culture. But I've heard it tastes very good. In Quebec it's butter. Also, Quebec is one of the very few places in the world where it is illegal to have butter coloured margarine. The butter lobby won't allow it. There have been many, many court cases over it but the butter lobby always wins. Go Butter Lobby!

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    Quote Originally Posted by King Malcolm
    Just looking ahead to my morning fry, and realising that I have run out of lard, what do the honorable members us for frying?
    Why didnt you include margarine?
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    WTF Where is crisco
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    Default Re: What do you use for frying?

    I have to admit, I didn't realise that one could fry wih margarine, I thought it just evaporated, or something.

    WTF is crisco?
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    Default Re: What do you use for frying?

    Butter, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar (works for me).

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    Quote Originally Posted by King Malcolm
    WTF is crisco?
    WTF is Crisco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just goods greates gift where did you learn about america from a yankee i bet they dont use crixco becuase of the *health prblems*
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    Quote Originally Posted by strike for the south
    WTF Where is crisco
    I was thinking the same thing. How about some PAM?



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    I normally use sunflower oil or butter, depending on what I'm frying.
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    From popatoes to sardines, it's olive all the way. I can fry eggs in butter if need be. Margarine is for greasing doors, bikes or girlfriends.
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    crisco and margarine are both hydrogenated oils (usually vegetable oils). neither should be mentioned in a thread about cooking.
    now i'm here, and history is vindicated.

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    Gentlemen,

    Let's keep the "WTF"s to a mininum.

    Better yet, not at all. We all know what it means and it isn't wanted here.

    Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beirut
    Gentlemen,

    Let's keep the "WTF"s to a mininum.

    Better yet, not at all. We all know what it means and it isn't wanted here.

    Thanks.
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    Back in the old days I used hash oil but it only fried my brain
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    Lightbulb Re: What do you use for frying?

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    Depends. If I'm preprocessing eggplant, squash, potatoes, green pepper etc. then I use no oil at all and fry them softly in a steel pan. I use sunflower/corn/peanut oil for frying meat, onions, garlics etc. prior to cooking. Butter shall be used for eggs, tomatoes etc., which will be consumed after the frying without any further cooking operation.

    Olive oil, I never use in frying or cooking. Fire just wastes the poor substance. I consume it raw, often with apple vinegar.

    Margarine and alike can never make it into my kitchen.


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    I use either sunflower oil or olive oil, depending on which one is closest to the front of the condiments cupboard when I open it.

    They both seem to taste pretty much the same.
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    one of the three oils.... they are healthier then fats and butter and cleaner then fats or butter, i mean who wants to scrape the fat out of their deep fryer.
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    Gah! I haven`t fried for a long time.
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    I wish I could cook..

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    Default Re: What do you use for frying?

    You don't need to know how to cook to fry... You just get some lard (unless it is bacon), and something edible, put them both in a frying pan or deep-fat-fryer and put it on a high heat until it is soaked in grease or black.
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    Goose grease.
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    Vegetable oil, Sunflower oil and olive oil.


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    Olive oil about 80% of the time, with Sunflower the other 20%
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    Gawain, should I speak to your family about getting a bathload of goose fat?
    My Grandad and the farm are long gone Im afraid so yes the only way now for me to get goose grease is to cook a goose.
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