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

There’s so many to choose from that I can’t decide which to use? Low smoke, high heat, toxic when burned, allergy, polyunsaturated, etc. So confusing. Which oil are you using?

i use avocado oil.

Thanks man. Going to get some today!

I have had good luck with peanut oil.

Peanut oil for high temp at my house.
Everything else, olive oil.

Sesame or olive or canola or peanut.
Depends what I’m doing

seems to have the highest smoke point

I use it sometimes, but I like the smell and taste of peanut oil, so...

I’m a peanut oil guy. High smoking point and readily available. I’ll use Canola in a pinch.

Rice bran oil. Am I the only one.

I used to use olive oil until I was told it burnt and became carcinogenic.

Rice bran oil is the oil extracted from the hard outer brown layer of rice called chaff (rice husk). It is known for its high smoke point of 232 °C (450 °F)

sez the wiki

not quite as good as avocado

I've heard the same thing about olive oil - likely applies to any oil

but it's a total waste to kill good EVO with heat

No one has mentioned Brad Penn?

This is the droid you seek.

Dash of sesame oil for flavor

Olive oil for everything although I don't eat much fried food. When I do it's not much more than quick pan fry as in my breakfast eggs or thinly sliced chicken breast in a cast iron pan.

The really flavorful, green tinted olive oil is bad due to low smoke point, but the much more refined/filtered light colored, nearly flavorless olive oil has a much higher smoke point and is OK for higher temp usage.

I was using peanut oil but I’m afraid I might end up poisoning family members allergic to nuts.

Peanut oil is spendy but outstanding. Canola, hell yes but not what you are supposed to use.

On the off chance you are making Belgian fries. Beef fat. It's so much work given clumps of lard and purging slivers of beef and bone to get a clean elixer.

Russets taste like steak.

20W-50, same as the 911

Peanut is traditional for Wok..

Saflower now cause i gots a deal.

Olive oil..for sauting Itie or salad dressing marinating

Canola for the frying..its cheap.

I use oil according to the flavor profile i am trying to achieve


Lard for Carnitas and Machcha.

I think it REALLY depends on what you're cooking. Peanut oil is great with fried chicken.

Avocado oil is great for the super high BTUs of a bad-ass wok, but if you're using your home gas range, it will not reach the temps of a commercial range.

If you're doing eggs, clarified butter.

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.

Canola Oil is rapeseed oil.

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

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.

duck fat is where it's at

not in a wok with a stir-fry.

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. :)

I learnt to speel from General So....

also fortune cookies

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...

traditional !!


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

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.

^^^^ 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 :D