Now what am I going to do?
My arteries are already too free-flowing.
FDA to ban artery-clogging trans fats
↨Oils at Oil Mart.↨
Almond
Avocado
hazelnut
palm
sunflower
canola
grape-seed
macadamia nut
Extra virgin olive
olive
peanut
corn
hempseed
pumpkinseed
sesame
soybean
coconut
flaxseed
walnut
lard
butter
Ghee
bacon fat

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"Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration...
don't Fail Us Now"

If they ban bacon their will be a revolution.

Whats wrong with olive oil? I always enjoyed some olive oil with garlic and a good bread.

The Italians live forever and they use a ton of it.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Synthetic with lots of additives.

Plastic oil is for plastic cars. Dead dinosaur oil is for real ones.

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

With lots of additives, of course!

I use bacon grease for many things. When I'm out of bacon grease, I use olive oil.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Yeah, like catsup and relish.

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

No single oil can do everything in the kitchen. At the moment, I have canola, peanut, sesame, virgin and extra virgin olive, and some small specialty flavored olive oils (butter, pesto and lemon); unsalted butter, sweet salted butter, a couple sticks of Crisco and in the freezer a tub of chicken fat and another of duck fat.

Synthetic oil can.

The old fat paradigm is being stood on it's head by current research. The banning of saturated fats and replacement with polyunsaturates and hydrogenated vegetable oils beginning in the 60s not only made us fat and gave us diabetes it also didn't do a damn thing for heart disease and atherosclerosis.
I'm kind of a cooking oil nerd. The good news is that saturated fats aren't bad for you, it's the transfats found in cheap "vegetable" oils, Crisco, butter "substitutes" and the like. Here are my favorites for various purposes. You can google their health benefits. I keep others around too, various nut oils etc. for different flavors. Peanut and especially Corn oil just aren't that good for you and I don't like their flavors so I avoid them. Canola oil is industrially processed from rapeseed oil, which is poisonous. Who needs it. Tastes fishy to me anyhow and it turns out isn't all that especially healthy.

Leaf lard. Not the cheap stuff in the blue or red box. That has trans fats. Great for pie crusts and very high heat frying. Astronomical smoke point. Best pie crust in the world is 50/50 Lard/butter.
Clarified butter. Called "Ghee" by foodie persons. Make your own out of good unsalted butter. It's easy. Also good for high temp saute. CB doesn't burn like whole butter
Grapeseed Oil. Very healthy, tasteless, relatively high smoke point. Good for no taste added frying and sautee or very delicate salad dressing. I buy mine at WalMart. YMMV
Coconut Oil. Virgin only. Has a light coconut aroma but not much flavor. Good to about 350 smoke point, but what's amazing about this stuff is it's almost entirely medium chain fatty acids. Ramps up the burning of abdominal fat like crazy. I eat 2 tbsp. per day either on food or just by the shot glass. Excellent long term energy source.
Extra virgin olive oil. Very healthy, not for frying. low smoke point. Dipping, salad dressings, adding to sauces at finish or dressing pasta and vegetables.
Toasted Walnut Oil. Pricey but good deals on Amazon in bulk. Keep refrigerated, it goes off pretty fast. Awesome for dressing vegetables and salads and even on toast.
Hemp oil. I just got a bottle of this. It's reputedly quite healthy. Strong flavored but doesn't taste like ganja or anything, more like raw sunflower seeds. Made good salad dressing with it.

I cook with lots of bacon and save my own fat in the fridge. Nothing wrong with it if you don't mind nitrates and nitrites. My bacon doesn't have any so I don't worry.

The most important thing to remember when cooking with any oil is make sure it doesn't smoke. Know your smoke points. Oil that smokes is changed and it's health benefits are blown and may even be unhealthy.

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You're a daisy if you do.
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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Rotella T6.

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

Mobil1

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Hashish oil. Not available at Wal*Mart, but available from other less-refined retailers.

I use this in all my internal combustion engines. However, I haven't tried cooking with it and don't think it would be a very good idea.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

I know. I'd never eat anything cooked with anything but Mobil1.

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."