PrintWhich oil do you use for deep frying?
Last night, I used a combination of canola and grapeseed oils to fry up some samosas. It tasted better than just canola oil and the house didn't smell as much like fried food. What's yielded the best result for you?
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9 Comments:
I've used canola oil before but I like using peanut oil a lot. I usually help fry up the latkes (potato pancakes) come Hannukah and that's what we use.
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 2:40PM on 09/06/07
I like to use canola because of its reported health benefits (it has been shown, like olive oil, to improve the hdl/ldl cholesterol ratio). I haven't noticed a fried-food smell, although that could be due to the fact that when I fry doughnuts, I use lard -- that smells terrible, but the doughnuts are sublime. My wife forces me to fry them outdoors now :-)
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 4:36PM on 09/06/07
Peanut oil is the way to go for flavor and high smoke point, canola for health. Sad to say I usually go peanut...although I've only used a deep fryer like, once!
lo82070 at 6:30PM on 09/06/07
Although I've tried them all over my lifetime, and peanut was the oil of choice for most of that time, I now use canola exclusively for my frying and olive oil for sautéing. Maybe older is wiser or you just get willing to trade some of the "tricks of the trade" for a step toward a healthier life-style. Smells and tastes? My experience tells me that you get conditioned to enjoy what you become familiar with. You have to choose a coarse and stay with it. It's not such an issue if you're cutting back on fried foods anyway.
czken at 3:57AM on 09/07/07
Thanks for the feedback, folks!
I do use olive oil for sauteing most of the time, but I keep it in a spray bottle, using just a wee bit at a time.
hereandthe at 9:30AM on 09/07/07
My mom swears by corn oil.
kathy in oakland at 10:26AM on 09/07/07
Peanut. Anything else will make your house stink for a couple of days.
DaveFaris at 10:46AM on 09/07/07
i swear by corn oil too. your mom is a smart woman, kathy!!!
goodbyeohio at 12:45PM on 09/07/07
your grandma fried chicken in lard, i know it ain't healthy and even the name is kinda ugly but it's the only way to properly fry chicken.
i use peanut oil to deep fry turkeys and garlic stuffed chickens, corn oil to fry shrimp and extra virgin olive oil to saute onions/celery/bell peppers. (in south louisiana we call the mixture of onions/celery/bell peppers "the trinity" since it is the base of many meals. (and the odor in the kitchen when sauteing these items is very pleasing)
olddad at 2:27PM on 09/11/07