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[pennyJo1960]

I admit I use crisco have this ancient pie crust from a
cookbook wrote in 1961 made pie last night blueberry
and darn it is so flaky funny though I use canola or olive oil for cooking food
may look into avocado oil is it cost effective

 

[ronott1]

I admit I use crisco have this ancient pie crust from a
cookbook wrote in 1961 made pie last night blueberry
and darn it is so flaky funny though I use canola or olive oil for cooking food
may look into avocado oil is it cost effective

I am sure crisco is not that bad for you either.

Avacado oil has come down a lot in price here. It used to be $18.00 for a bottle. Now the same bottle is about $9.00. It is getting close to the cost of olive oil. I do not like frying with olive oil though.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: I agree with that so it goes to canola for me I do not fry like my grandma or Mom
with vegetable oil for everything my bacon fat goes in the compost my BF is diabetic
stable one over 30 years no way going to rock that boat

 

[chickadoodles]

Ron I have not heard of Avocado oil. I will have to see if it is even available here. I have been using mostly coconut oil. But like you said it is not great for frying.
I still have crisco for things like that.

The baby bird we put in the pear tree is gone with it's parents.

 

[microchick]

Another problem I have with oils is that I have a tree nut allergy and oddly enough, that includes Palm oil and coconut oil so I have to be very careful of blends. A lot of the 'shortenings' now are a blend of palm oil and 'vegetable oil blends" What I have in the cupboard right now is partially hydrogenated cotton seed and soybean oil. Now that 'vegetable oil' could be anything including tropical oils so I have to be careful of it.

My husband loves pie but me not so much mainly because of the oil in the crust.

 

[Alaskan]

Goose fat










Goooooooose faaaaaaaaaat!

 

[perchie.girl]

oatmeal cookies substitue Bacon fat for butter omitt the salt......

 

[Kusanar]

oatmeal cookies substitue Bacon fat for butter omitt the salt......

First off, I LOVE the avatar! That owl is not at all impressed!

I made a stuffed, deboned chicken a week or so ago, and the stuffing called for you to sauté celery in butter... I had some rendered chicken fat (just melted down, strained and frozen, not smaltz really as that involves veggies) in the freezer, so I broke a chunk of that off and cooked the celery in that... I figured if it's going in a chicken... why not use chicken fat??

 

[pennyJo1960]

Another problem I have with oils is that I have a tree nut allergy and oddly enough, that includes Palm oil and coconut oil so I have to be very careful of blends. A lot of the 'shortenings' now are a blend of palm oil and 'vegetable oil blends" What I have in the cupboard right now is partially hydrogenated cotton seed and soybean oil. Now that 'vegetable oil' could be anything including tropical oils so I have to be careful of it.

My husband loves pie but me not so much mainly because of the oil in the crust.

I have several allergies have outgrown some added a few minor
ladies perfumes kill me anymore coughing, gagging and sneezing style have to leave the room
bad embarrassing in a restaurant..
I had a deathly allergy to mushrooms as a child seems to be gone as had made Ramen old style chinese brand
that contained it and did not die but do not cook with them as not that brave

 

[microchick]

I have several allergies have outgrown some added a few minor
ladies perfumes kill me anymore coughing, gagging and sneezing style have to leave the room
bad embarrassing in a restaurant..
I had a deathly allergy to mushrooms as a child seems to be gone as had made Ramen old style chinese brand
that contained it and did not die but do not cook with them as not that brave

I've always had a reaction to certain foods, looking back they were all containing either coconut oil or palm kernel oil. No anaphylactic reaction, just nausea. A few years ago I set and ate a pile of pistachio nuts and thought I was dying. Severe stomach cramps, nausea to the point that I thought I was going to vomit and then Intestinal cramping and yes, the inevitable run to the porcelain god. I finally googled the symptoms and the first thing that popped up was tree nut allergic reaction.

That was enough for me. I can cheat a bit and do small amounts in foods like honey nut cherios but the more I eat, the sicker I get so I try to just avoid foods with tree nuts and tropical oils.

Yes, I spend a lot of time reading labels in the grocery store.