darcy_cooks
Assistant Cook
What are some of the best oils for frying?
Peanut oil for stir frying.
Canola oil for deep frying.
Light tasting olive oil for sautéeing.
Extra Virgin olive oil and dark sesame oil are for drizzling on flavor, not for frying.
You can use other oils such as vegetable oil, grape seed oil, rapeseed oil, palm oil, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, and on and on ad nauseum, but if you stock every conceivable oil there will be no room in the pantry for other things, like food!
Lard.
Lard.
I buy peanut oil for deep frying and extra virgin olive oil for everything else. Not saying it is ideal but I just don't want to try to keep a lot of different oils on hand so it's what I do.
For deep frying, I find peanut oil works very well.
CD
Lard is good, and so are bacon squeezin's, as long as you don't have any Jewish and/or Muslim friends that eat at your house.Lard.
Yes, it does, but peanut oil is more expensive than canola oil, which works just as well.
Canola oil has interesting side effect. For some people it stinks like fish oil during frying. I am one of them. I hate both.
I agree. I stopped using canola oil for the fishy smell.