Which cooking oil do you use for frying, esp wok frying?

[vash]

Originally Posted by beran earms

No one has mentioned grape seed oil yet. We use it in wok stir fry and works well. Any one?

Good stuff. My last bottle was grape seed. I switched to avocado when I found it at Costco.

I don’t overthink my oil for the wok.

I don’t use canola since I don’t know wgat a canola is.

[TimT]

Canola Oil is rapeseed oil.

https://www.rd.com/food/fun/canola-oil-acronym/

[masraum]

Originally Posted by beran earms

No one has mentioned grape seed oil yet. We use it in wok stir fry and works well. Any one?

Yes, we also use grape seed oil for our high heat. We use peanut for some things (mostly Asian stuff). We also use ghee for some things. When we have goose fat, we use that and sometimes we use bacon fat.

[RWebb]

duck fat is where it's at

[vash]

Originally Posted by RWebb

duck fat is where it's at

not in a wok with a stir-fry.

[RWebb]

I'm on the peanut oil train for stir-fry


Tho George Washington Carver told me that peanuts were not traditional in Asia...

[vash]

Originally Posted by RWebb

I'm on the peanut oil train for stir-fry


Tho George Washington Carver told me that peanuts were not traditional in Asia...

neither is General Tsao chicken.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by vash

neither is General Tsao chicken.

I learnt to speel from General So....

[RWebb]

also fortune cookies

[TimT]

Tho George Washington Carver told me that peanuts were not traditional in Asia...

BS, my ex wife is from Tianjin, and we used to have n apartment in Chaoyang, Beijing

Peanuts are often given as an amuse buche (complimentary app) at restaurants...

[RWebb]

traditional !!


Peanuts are from S. America and could not have been in Asia a long time ago.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by TimT

Peanuts are often given as an amuse buche (complimentary app) at restaurants...

I had a few Singapore Slings at Raffles in Singapore. they bring you over a pile of peanuts in shells and you crack them open, throw the shells on the floor, and eat the peanuts.

It's a custom from days gone by when the growers would go to the bar and throw the shells on the floor to "show off" the fact they were growers.

[KFC911]

^^^^ I learned to be a "pig" in the Texas "roadhouse" restaurants here years ago. A barrel of peanuts at the front door, peanut shells covering the floor....at the bar, under the dining tables, etc. Didn't take long for me to join in...having been raised in a barn