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13886525 No.13886525 [Reply] [Original]

Let’s settele this ONCE FOR ALL, I want the truth about cooking oils vs high heat.

Everytime I read that if I want to fry a steak in my screaming hot cast iron pan I should use oils suitable for high temps (such as Grapeseed or Avocado oil) and then every single fuck and celebrity on YouTube makes shit like pic related using EVO oil and throwing everything in a pan.

Isn’t that supposed to make a shitty steak and tons of cancerous smoke in your kitchen?

Also why in the name of fuck do I have to let the oil smoke before throwing the meat in the pan? If it smokes it means that it’s burning no?

I’m tired of this confusion.

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>>13886525
My question to you is what the hell you think you're doing culturally appropriating other cultures and countries traditionally associated with slavery?

What the hell is wrong with you? Rephrase that question.

>> No.13886556

you want it to be as hot as possible without smoking. They’re telling you to look for the smoke cause it’s a crude way of seeing that your oil is hot. But ideally it would be just under the smoke point. That’s more than enough to sear.

All oils turn into cancerous nasty shit if you overheat them, not just extra virgin. You generally want to use extra virgin raw or barely heated because it loses its flavour if you heat it. But you can use it for cooking. It won’t bring about the apocalypse. It’s a pet peeve of mine to have some smartarse tell me off for using it when I know what I’m doing

>> No.13886603

>>13886556
If my oil lightly smokes it makes me cough even if it’s under the smoke point, but I don’t understand how is it possible to do things like this for example:

https://youtu.be/dlL8L0mrXkE

He puts olive oil and then grills it but olive oil is not suited for high heat.
Tons of other people on YT making steaks with low temp oil.

>> No.13886620

>>13886603
It’s just a bit of oil and people expect a bit of burnt/charred flavour on grilled things

>> No.13886632

>>13886620
It sounds like a bee in a piss hole.

>> No.13886635

>>13886603
What makes you think that's evoo?
Refined olive oil is fine for frying

>> No.13886637

>>13886525
For high temperature frying you want oils that are saturated and tolerate high temperature. Palm or coconut is the way to go.

Alternatively lard from pigs that has had correct diet which is hard to find, but you can use goose fat, duck fat and suet. Or clarified butter.

>> No.13886750

>>13886637
Many people use canola which is shit.

I don’t use any oil because I can’t stand the smoke