Oil Dilemma - Page 2

[PennyP]

Thank you all for your advice! I was in the grocery store today and saw sunflower oil being sold for the same price as canola and soy oil, when it is usually twice the price. I stocked up and bought a bunch! Thanks for helping me figure this one out!

[harrietsmama]

I *love* duck fat. It is very easy to get a lot of it by just roasting the duck and pouring it off. It's pretty creamy even in the fridge. I haven't tried it yet but goose is supposed to give off even more fat.

I never put my coconut oil in the fridge. in the winter I put it over the pilot light on my stove, but now I don't have that kind of stove so we'll see what happens. I used to just carve it out with a spoon and melt it with water, but that was for baking.

I also use lard, and pretty much whatever fat. If I am going to pour off fat or juices from any meat I am cooking, I save it. I can use it again for something that will work with that flavor. I have little jars in my fridge with fat on top and juice in the bottom all the time.

Even bacon fat, if you get good bacon, if fine for a few days at room temperature, or at least it always was when I was a kid - there was a mug of that and a stick of butter in the cupboard at all times.

I don't use much olive oil at all because well I don't want to heat it and I forget to eat it after. I'm just not a condiment girl so I always forget.

[RubThyNeighbor]

Make your own ghee!

Cheap and efficient and way healthy ,

[PennyP]

Is it actually cheap? Isn't it made from butter? Which would make it expensive round here...

[nigellas]

What about Grape Seed oil? Or is that now considered "unsafe" too?

[MrsBone]

I don't know where you live, but if you have a Costco nearby, they sell extra virgin olive oil in a half gallon jug for about 10 dollars. Costco apparently has good standards for their olive oil and I don't buy organic, because my priorities are elsewhere I strictly use it for salads though, so it lasts me a good 4 or 5 months. We are a family of 3 though As far as cheap good fat goes for sauteing and frying, I'd suggest lard. It's a little bit of work rendering it yourself, but if you have a local source, sometimes the farmer or butcher will just give it to you because otherwise it'd get thrown away. So that's probably the cheapest. We get ours for free! I use non organic refined coconut oil most of the time though, and it ends up being around the same price as olive oil. As far as I know, refined doesn't have as much good stuff in it as unrefined, but it's way more versatile because it has no flavor, that's why I use it and it's still better than canola, soy, etc.

[harrietsmama]

The minimum rice for grass fed butter by me is 2.59 for 8oz, on sale and I go through it fast. Not really cheap. But cheaper than the duck fat (we call it duck butter around here And much easier to find than pastured lard.