I think peanut oil is the best for frying, period. High smoking point
and delicious flavor. As others have pointed out, olive oil has a
(relatively) low smoking point and isn't the best choice for frying. I
don't use Crisco solid at all, since it's an artificially hydrogenated
fat, and Crisco liquid is just vegetable oil by any other name.

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Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995
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