Refined Corn Oil is as high as 460° F

As with all (somewhat) natural ingredients, it’s impossible to get 100% consistent results. It’s just when you boil an egg wrong, it’s very unlikely to go up in flames.

Depending on what you’re cooking, that is a desirable feature – well, riding right on that threshold.

Note that burnt butter is distinctly bad for your health. All those complex proteins and fats all getting thrown through the chemical grinder… But damn is it tasty to fry a perogy in almost burnt butter compared to any of the oils in that chart…

Great. What’s that in normal units?

Edit:

Behold the average insurance customer:

Butter is great for general cooking but not frying. What is burning is the milk solids still left in the butter. Browning butter (basically lightly frying the milk solids) is a process that can be used to impart at different flavor to the butter.

If you want to fry with that buttery flavor but don’t want to burn it, you need to clarify it first: boil out the remaining water content, skim the milk solids off the top, then pour the clear fat off the other milk solids that settle out. Or you can just use ghee, which is basically preclarified butter.

Fun fact: it’s the milk solids that go off first in butter (and the water content allows microbial growth). “Potting” is a preservation technique like “canning”, except instead of sealing something with a metal lid, you pour clarified butter over the food. It fills in gaps between solid pieces and forms a cap on top as it cools.

Fahrenfuck

I’ll follow this one before that garbage, I’m yet to use sunflower oil that performed worse than canola. Not sure what garbage they are pretending to reference, perhaps some shit Russians stole from Ukraine and shipped off to US?

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Edit: slight side note, as the above may be interpreted in different ways. I’ve only ever bought Sunflower oil produced in Ukraine while in Canada, all of it has been high quality. Have seen some from Balkans (IIRC?) but it was cloudy so didn’t even bother trying it. Not saying it’s an inherent country of origin issue there, more like Walmart trying to find some cheap shit to make money off of. I think Italy was the only other country I saw as a source once and that was just ridiculously priced, mostly because it was mixed with olive oil.

Units aside. Much better overview without those ridiculously large icons that dominate the image and give no information whatsoever.

Thanks, much more informative than the original graph

Shout out to algae cooking oil, weighing in at 535 F (280 C) https://algaecookingclub.com/products/algae-cooking-oil

I use it when cooking high heat, and also a few drops to season my cast iron

The format is a weird ad trend that was going around years ago. It not even necessarily put out by allstate.

Its akin to all those viral videos nowadays that have a random gambling website attached

Thanks for the info. If I ever see it cheaper at the store maybe I’ll try it out. Sounds promising but the price sounds a bit steep.

I feel like I gained eldritch knowledge. I’m buying ghee and going back to frying everything in it.

Wait, rapeseed refers to canola? Who the FUCK thought to name that rape seed?

Also sesame oil is supposed to be a finishing oil

The term “rape” derives from the Latin word for turnip, rāpa or rāpum, cognate with the Greek word ῥάφη, rhaphe.

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It’s missing my favorite cooking oil: Lard.

I’ve started throwing my cast iron into the barbecue while I heat it up before grilling (I heat to 500 for 15-20 mins or so then clean the bbq, then grill, which is perfect for a quick season with most oils)

It’s a great time saver for seasoning it.

I can now reliably do omelettes in the cast iron without any sticking, it actually works better than my non stick

I would not heat up olive oil to that point.

The table is missing Rapeseed oil.

And: Fahrenheit! What the f…ck?