On Aug 29, 10:27 am, "Paul M. Cook" >
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> "Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
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> On Aug 29, 4:50 am, "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
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> > "Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
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> > On Aug 28, 7:07 pm, "Paul M. Cook" >
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> > > "Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
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> > > > OMG! The food snob is asking for advice?
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> > > > Here's my problem. I need to figure out what oil to use for quantity
> > > > preparation of pancakes and French toast. All I keep around is peanut
> > > > and EVOO. The OO is obviously not right. The peanut oil cannot be
> > > > used because it's for my son's school's PTO event, and peanut
> > > > allergies, you know.
>
> > > > What neutral oil should I use?
>
> > > > I don't think that canola is neutral, and soybean is downright nasty.
>
> > > > Corn is not neutral, but is inoffensive tasting.
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> > > > Safflower is unavailable, for all practical purposes.
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> > > > So, is it corn oil?
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> > > Why use oil for pancakes and french toast? You want flavor. Use
> butter.
>
> > I was never intending to put the oil IN the batter, but we'll be using
> > the giant griddle in a grade school cafeteria kitchen. We'll need oil
> > ON the surface. There will be plenty and more butterfat in the batter
> > from using 40% cream.
>
> > Sheldon, of course, just assumed I was putting the oil in the batter.
>
> > His assholedness is capricious, almost random.
>
> > Sheldon clearly has a mental illness. I would bet money he is suffering
> > from Tourette's Syndrome. Somebody who knew him some years ago said he
> was
> > on medications for bipolar. Take it with a grain of salt. But his mental
> > state is quite clearly very dubious even to a layman.
>
> > Anyway,
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> > I use Crisco for the grill. It works fabulously. Just take several
> layers
> > of paper towels or a brown paper bag, scoop up some Crisco and grease the
> > grill with it. Not too much, you are not deep drying the pancakes. Just
> a
> > nice thin layer to prevent sticking. If you are talking a really large
> > grill, take a 2 quart pot, dump some Crisco into it, set it on the grill
> to
> > melt. Then use a grill mop to grease the surface. When I was a short
> order
> > cook, we used butter flavored Crisco for pancakes, eggs, french toast,
> > omelets and hash browns. Crisco is very neutral in flavor and ideal for
> > pancakes and french toast.
>
> Hydrogenated shortening is dangerously unhealthy, and should be made
> illegal, and has in some locales (NYC restaurants). His grade school
> has lots of children of med school profs and med students. Even if I
> didn't know better, they'd set me straight. GET ON THE PROGRAM, and
> quit poisoning yourself and others.
>
> I can assure you that nobody I ever cooked pancakes for died due to my
> negligence.

So you've done arterial scans on them? Trans fats kill, and it isn't
immediate.
They left lead in house paint and gasoline for years after many people
knew the dangers.

> Even Alton Brown cooks with Crisco. Good enough for him, good
> enough for you.

Alton Brown deserves to be anally raped with the Julia Child Action
Figure for doing so, and apparently, so do you. Or maybe you'd prefer
it with Alton's Crisco greased cock?
>
> Paul

--Bryan