"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:20:25 -0700, sf wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:16:53 GMT, Sqwertz >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:40:38 -0700, sf wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:40:17 -0400, "Dee.Dee" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I always have coconut oil right by the stove for cooking. At around
>>>>>72º it
>>>>>becomes liquid.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting. I never would have guessed it liquefied at such a low
>>>> temperature. My house is usually in the mid to low 60's. In any
>>>> case, I've used it to harden chocolate and it works.
>>>
>>>Are we talking coconut oil or cocoa butter? I can't find a
>>>definition of "coco butter" anywhere. Cocoa butter, is of
>>>course used in chocolate but is a different beast than coconut
>>>oil.
>>
>> Plug "what is...." into Google.
>
> And what did you get when you did that? A bunch of skin creams,
> is what. Nothing related to cooking at all. At least in the
> first three pages of results.
>
> What it sounds like is a bunch of marketers trying to pass off
> coconut oil as cocoa butter with an undefined term.
>
>> Some sites say they are the same thing, others make fine differences
>> between them. Both can be used in cooking and coconut oil is used to
>> harden chocolate.
>>
>> Cocoa Butter
>> Cocoa butter is the creamy, rich fat obtained from the seeds of the
>> cocoa plant.
>
> But you said "coco butter", not "cocoa butter". And while there
> are plenty of hits for "coco butter", none of them specifically
> say it comes from coconuts rather than cocoa nuts.
>
> I know what cocoa butter is, I'm trying to find out if there is
> such a thing as "coco butter", if it's made from coconut oil, and
> is it used in cooking.

There is also coconut butter which I believe is different than coconut oil.