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    Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    I cook with extra-virgin olive oil for the most part, but I'm getting ready to lay in a storage of cheap cooking oil for long-term trade, or emergency use if I should ever run out of olive oil.

    It appears that there are 3 main types of cheap cooking oil available at stores, and all of them are comparably priced. These are:

    Canola (Rapeseed) oil
    Corn oil
    Soybean oil

    My question: which is preferable in terms of utility and healthiness? I've heard that Canola is bad for you, although I don't remember how or why... and I've also heard that some oils are better because they have a higher "flash point" where they won't decompose/ignite under higher temp cooking.

    Can people here shed any light on these, and possibly other issues I might not have considered?

    BTW, I have about 4 gallons of soybean oil already stashed, but I'd like to increase my stash of WHATEVER cheap oil ends up being the best to 20 or 30 gallons.
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    Re: Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    NONE of those are good for your health.

    Lay in coconut oil.

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    Re: Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kregener
    NONE of those are good for your health.

    Lay in coconut oil.
    I've already laid in a good stash of coconut oil. I know the cheap oils are not particularly good for you, but as I already stated these are intended for trade and/or emergency use - and not for my main cooking use. I'm trying to choose the "lesser of 3 evils" so to speak.

    Any other input?
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    Re: Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    What about peanut or sunflower oil? I'm no expert, just throwing it out there.
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    For good old fashion cooking Krisco Lard.......will always be there, will always be good........ just like me
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    Be careful oil get rancid, also if used for frying it will burn if it is olive oil ,for frying I would use sesame ,macadamia ,coconut, walnut,
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    Re: Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    Quote Originally Posted by Andy9999
    Be careful oil get rancid, also if used for frying it will burn if it is olive oil ,for frying I would use sesame ,macadamia ,coconut, walnut,
    Yep... Oils stored in deep-freeze to delay rancidity. When frying at high temp, I use Coconut oil, Olive oil doesn't handle the heat too well!

    P.S. G.o.D - Sorry, moved the thread derail to TD... I'm really trying to get some decent input on this one.
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    Re: Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    NP, but I know you laughed your ass off at it.

    Seriously, what about getting used oil from restuarants and just straining it.
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    Re: Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    Quote Originally Posted by General of Darkness
    NP, but I know you laughed your ass off at it.
    Indeed!
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    Re: Best cheap-ass cooking oil?

    I like peanut oil but I don't know if it is any better for storage than other oils. Coconut is certainly the best for storage and health. I wouldn't be trading that one.

    Canola is pretty much 80%+ GMO these days and I don't think you can get the natural stuff in North America any more. I avoid it like the plague.

    I like sunflower oil for frying. I think it's pretty clean GMO wise. The idea I had was that it is easy to grow sunflowers and I figured I could then make my own oil. Same goes for olives I guess but it will be a few years before your olives are fruiting.

    Olives could be good because their footprint is smaller than sunflowers. You need about 2200sq Ft for enough sunflowers for about 3 gallons oil.

    Anyway I searched on making sun flower oil. There are 2 types of sunflower seeds, a confectionery seed with stripes on it and an oil seed which is plain black. I simply grabbed a birdseed pkt and planted a few to see how they went. Grow easily and produce a fair amount of seed if they have enough soil space. I had them in a fairly small space so some are small flower heads and others with more space have a lot of seeds.

    With some flour mills you can de husk them and you can rig up some kind of blower to separate the husks from the kernells. See the link for a few home made ideas. A 3 ton hydraulic jack can be used to make a press.

    http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_.../oilpress.html

    Or you can buy a press. Lots of them about : http://uncledutchfarms.blogspot.com/...pkin-seed.html
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