<story><title>Which oils are best to cook with?</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33675975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eitally</author><text>This article is very hard to draw conclusions from.  For one, when they talk about frying, are they literally meaning deep frying &amp;#x2F; pan frying, or also including sauteeing and similar?  Secondly, for Americans at least, they don&amp;#x27;t mention canola&amp;#x2F;rapeseed oil at all, and that&amp;#x27;s by far the most commonly used here.  Thirdly, most people have absolutely no clue how hot their pans get when they cook, but I suspect the majority have burned butter or smoked their olive oil.  Fourth, I know peanut oil is very common in Chinese&amp;#x2F;Asian cooking.  I wonder how it fares.&lt;p&gt;We use coconut oil for a lot of stuff (high heat in pans, but also for baking &amp;amp; grilling), and olive oil for the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Grue3</author><text>They do mention rapeseed oil, and it&amp;#x27;s one of the best along with olive oil. And it has higher smoke point, so I suspected it&amp;#x27;s the best oil for frying for quite a while. Unfortunately it&amp;#x27;s very rarely sold in my country.</text></comment>
<story><title>Which oils are best to cook with?</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33675975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eitally</author><text>This article is very hard to draw conclusions from.  For one, when they talk about frying, are they literally meaning deep frying &amp;#x2F; pan frying, or also including sauteeing and similar?  Secondly, for Americans at least, they don&amp;#x27;t mention canola&amp;#x2F;rapeseed oil at all, and that&amp;#x27;s by far the most commonly used here.  Thirdly, most people have absolutely no clue how hot their pans get when they cook, but I suspect the majority have burned butter or smoked their olive oil.  Fourth, I know peanut oil is very common in Chinese&amp;#x2F;Asian cooking.  I wonder how it fares.&lt;p&gt;We use coconut oil for a lot of stuff (high heat in pans, but also for baking &amp;amp; grilling), and olive oil for the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>They do mention rapeseed oil, which has become quite popular in the UK over the past 5 years or so:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The olive oil and cold-pressed rapeseed oil produced far less aldehydes</text></comment>