On Feb 6, 11:31*am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>
> . com...
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> > On 03/02/2012 12:45 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
>
> >> Note that peanut oil is high in saturated fat
> >> compared to most other vegetable oils (but still
> >> much lower than coconut oil). *This makes it a
> >> good frying oil, but it's atherogenic (bad for
> >> your arteries).
>
> > It is not that bad. It is a little higher than other relatively cheap and
> > available oils, like olive, corn or sunflower oil, or safflower. *It is a
> > lot lower than *margarine, lard, butter, palm oil or coconut oil.
>
> I just use canola or corn oil for pan frying. *Peanut oil is very pricey and
> I'd have to be deep frying to convince me to pay for it. *I don't deep fry
> much of anything these days.

Canola is OK if you're someone whom it tastes neutral to, but corn oil
is not. Peanut is not "very pricey." Jeez, $13/gallon as opposed to
$9 for canola. Anything cheaper than peanut isn't something I'd use
these days. Pricey is my $32/gallon (including shipping) gallon of
pecan oil. Macadamia is a couple dollars more than that. Those are
both sipping quality oils. If you're making salad dressing of any
sort, cheap, crappy oil will just make it taste bad. There are times
when one might want to add flavor with EVOO, or a roasted nut or seed
oil, but for neutral oil on the cheap, you can't beat peanut.
>
> Jill

--Bryan