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What fats do you use in your kitchen?

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Contributor: AJvil AJvil
Quote:
Originally posted by bayosgirl
Not many people know how important good fats are to overall health, and many have the wrong idea about what constitutes a "good" fat. I'm curious as to what fats and oils the people of EF use in their kitchens.
A few different ones
01/28/2012
Contributor: CrystaCat CrystaCat
Olive oil, but I sure do love butter!
01/28/2012
Contributor: tern tern
It really depends on the thing!

For frying, I always use vegetable oil, but for most things I prefer extra virgin olive oil. However, I also use bacon grease and butter for a lot of things. It really depends on the flavour and function you need for the dish.
03/02/2012
Contributor: Azule Azule
Usually I try to keep with extra virgin olive oil for health reasons, but when I'm baking or making something I know is going to be unhealthy I go straight for the animal fats because I can definitely taste the difference.
03/02/2012
Contributor: AHubbyof2SexualMinds AHubbyof2SexualMinds
We use a lot of extra virgin olive oil, as well as veggie oils and butter as well.
03/02/2012
Contributor: Stinkytofu10 Stinkytofu10
olive oil, margarine, butter, and canola oil.
03/02/2012
Contributor: Kitka Kitka
Mostly olive oil and vegetable oil.
03/02/2012
Contributor: VenusianThunder VenusianThunder
Most of the time I use Olive Oil. At times I will use coconut oil, if we happen to have it in the pantry. For recipes that require it, I use shortening, but this is mostly for baking and very very rarely. Butter I use for certain recipes where I feel Olive Oil might negatively affect the taste, such as mac and cheese. Vegetable oils, again usually only for baking. The only thing on that list that never gets used in my home is margarine. And bacon grease I only use if I have just made the bacon- like for eggs or whatever else I may eat with that meal, I do not save it for later use. I have never used lard and probably never will, but my grandparents use it sometimes, so I have eaten food cooked in it.
03/17/2012
Contributor: Woman China Woman China
We found out that if you use olive oil to make say a stir fry and you add in the oil first and it heats up too much, that is actually really really bad for you. They now suggest coconut oil to use instead. Coconut oil gives a fresh nutty flavour to foods!!!

In Canada I use coconut oil, and here I add splashes of olive oil on top of foods. Otherwise I don't cook with oils.
03/17/2012
Contributor: tom fay tom fay
olive oil cos you can use it for lots of stuf
03/17/2012
Contributor: Ciao. Ciao.
Almost exclusively olive oil, though occasionally some vegetable oil or other things if I am doing more specialized cooking. I don't really have a problem using things like bacon drippings or other bad fats if I am cooking a recipe that really calls for it, but those are rare occasions.
03/17/2012
Contributor: hillys hillys
Butter and olive oil and penut oil are great. Vegatable oil is cheap so I gotta use it sometimes...
03/25/2012
Contributor: pootpootpoot pootpootpoot
Butter is my favorite for baking, and olive oil for basically everything else.
03/26/2012
Contributor: LikeSunshineDust LikeSunshineDust
For cooking, mostly EVOO or canola oil unless butter works out better (i.e. to make a roux). For baking, whatever the recipe calls for (usually butter), though sometimes I'll sub half the fat with applesauce.
For spreading on things, usually Smart Balance. I like the taste and it doesn't have any hydrogenated oils. (Hydrogenated oils = hidden trans fats)
06/11/2012
Contributor: CindyH CindyH
Shortening,butter,vege table oil
06/11/2012
Contributor: SimpleHedonist SimpleHedonist
Mostly just olive oil and butter.... I HATE margarine, ukkkkk!!!!
06/11/2012
Contributor: palindromic palindromic
I use a lot of olive oil, with butter coming in second. Vegetable oil is used pretty much exclusively for baking in my kitchen and I enjoy cooking my brussels sprouts in bacon grease. Mm, tasty.
06/11/2012
Contributor: asphyxia asphyxia
Mostly butter for cooking, but sometimes I'll use olive oil. For deep frying, peanut oil FTW! For baking, when oil is called for, I mostly use organic canola or organic safflower. I've also been using Smart Balance margarine, because it doesn't have any hydrogenated oils, but I'm trying to transition to Earth Balance (made by the same people, but without GMO soy). My husband keeps complaining about the flavor of all the different Earth Balance varieties, but I'll keep looking until I find one he'll eat.
06/19/2012
Contributor: hybridinsurge hybridinsurge
Mostly butter or vegetable oil.
07/09/2012
Contributor: Missmarc Missmarc
Quote:
Originally posted by bayosgirl
Not many people know how important good fats are to overall health, and many have the wrong idea about what constitutes a "good" fat. I'm curious as to what fats and oils the people of EF use in their kitchens.
We use olive oil, vegetable oil and some butter.
07/09/2012
Contributor: Rory Rory
What happened to butter? I probable use butter more then anything else.
12/10/2012
Contributor: His scarlett His scarlett
I use butter, olive oil (extra virgin and virgin) and vegetable oil.

I never use margarine as I would rather eat grass.
03/10/2013
Contributor: sweet&lush sweet&lush
Olive oil, vegetable oil, margarine and butter
03/14/2013
Contributor: SneakersAndPearls SneakersAndPearls
It depends on what I'm making. I typically use vegetable shortening to grease pans and cookware. As for actually cooking, I use coconut oil, olive oil, butter, and canola oil. Although I don't use canola oil much any more. Lately I've been replacing it with coconut oil.
03/14/2013
Contributor: SassySam SassySam
Olive oil or sometimes coconut oil.
03/16/2013
Contributor: rosythorn rosythorn
Butter and olive oil, Sometimes canola and other times seasame. Won:t touch margerine with a ten foot pool, hate the stuff, So hard to clean off surfaces too!
03/17/2013
Contributor: jr2012 jr2012
I cook with olive oil almost exclusively. I will use canola in baked goods, and occasionally a smidge of butter when that flavor is really needed (ie, toast!)
03/17/2013
Contributor: Lildrummrgurl7 Lildrummrgurl7
Olive oil or canola oil, usually.
03/17/2013
Contributor: RonLee RonLee
Just two weeks ago I had a pancreatitis attack and so have had to severely curtail all fat in my diet.
03/17/2013
Contributor: joiedejouets joiedejouets
Olive Oil, and the other oils
03/17/2013