Is It Cooking Oil Or Butter?

Peanut oil is new to me. It must smell really good considering the smell of peanuts. I love peanuts, you know. Olive oil is highly recommended by cooks and doctors. But doctors say that vegetable oil is just fine for regular use. Sunflower oil is also expensive in our country.

yep. i have heard how good olive oil is for the health. yet, i find it really expensive. but we also have it at home. we just rarely use it. i did not know that butter helps in putting out the flavor in spices. thanks for the idea sailor!

I usually use vegetable oil when cooking. I have become comfortable using it. But it is true that we use various cooking oils to make the food taste better. There are recipes which call for the use of a specific type. Butter is used at home also because, we know that it perks up the flavor of some foods but it is only now that I know that spices come alive even more with it. Thanks for this information, sailor.

Yes, you are right. We had been told time and again that it is healthier to use the least amount of oil in the foods we cook.

Crisco shortening is an item which I don't believe I have seen in our supermarket shelves. I presume that it makes food taste great since it is your favorite. Thank you for telling me about mixing some vegetable oil with butter to keep it from burning. That is a good idea I have learned from you, lovesfreedom.

Corn oil is healthy and it gives food a more pleasing taste. But it is not as cheap as vegetable oil.

It is true that we have heard claims that olive oil is the best there is. However, some doctors contested that vegetable oil is, in fact, the best. I tend to agree that vegetable oil is really the best. As you can see, all nutrionists claim that fruits and vegetables are best for us. So, if vegetables are best for us, doesn't if follow that vegetable oil is also best for us?

Yes, butter perks up the flavor in some food because of its sweet smell. But perhaps, it is better to use vegetable oil where it is okay, butter is too rich and may not be good for our health if we consume too much of it.

Corn oil is healthy. I remember that the doctor recommended it for my mom's use.

Yes, it is true. I agree with you on all points. This is how we do it at home, too.

Yes, most of us use the type of cooking oil as what is called for in the recipe. The health conscious ones and those with health problems are doing their best to stay out of butter for the same reasons as you have pointed out.

Yes, butter is good for growing kids. I have learned that vegetable oil is best also for everyone especially those above 35.

It is true that butter perks up the natural flavor in foods. Non stick kitchen utensils are great to use because we dramatically reduce the oil needed for cooking.

I agree with you. I like sunflower oil, too. Only, it is much more expensive than vegetable oil.

Thank you for this information, bingbelarm. I have heard that canola oil is also good for those who wants to lose weight. I don't have the exact and full information as to why this is so. I just heard it over tv, so there was no way that I can pose any question to learn furthermore about the matter.

I share your views on this. Although we may be using palm oil for most of our cooking, there are some recipes which call for the use of butter and they taste best tha way.

Olive oil may be used as a regular cooking oil. It is fine for sauteeing and frying. Some Filipino doctors claim that vegetable oil (from coconut) is the best one to use because, it has lots of life sustaining components in it. If we come to think as to how widely used virgin coconut oil is nowadays, as a natural food supplement, we can safely say that there is truth to it. Testimonies came out some years ago that they get cured of their illnesses (mostly cancers and heart conditions) when they incorporated virgin coconut oil (vco)in their daily diet. Now, vco is even being used as hair conditioner and body lotion by many. Although we hear of plenty who says that olive oil is best tasting for food we saute and fry, I'd rather stick to the cooking oil which is most commonly used in the Philippines, the coconut based cooking oil. Therefore, you do not really have to worry about having to use olive oil always when cooking. There are some recipes which call for it, and that will be the time when I get hold of some. Olive oil is quite expensive because of the extraction cost involved plus its being an imported product.

I have information that the saturated fatty acids in vegetable oil are the ones which doctors and nutrionists call as the good cholesterol. Meaning, they are friendly to our bodies because, they dissolve the bad cholesterol which we have somehow accumulated. Therefore, there is no worry at all if we continue using those vegetable based cooking oils. No worry about corn oil either, corn is among the friendlier products we have around. Besides, corn is classified as vegetable, too. I hope that this information has made you feel better about the types of cooking oil you are using, my friend.

That's right. In fact, it is a very logical thing to do.

Many of us desires the flavor of butter in some of our foods, they just simply come out more delicious that way.

Thank you for your time, nardz. Butter and olive oil are indeed good materials for cooking. The only thing about them are their prices. There are times though when we use them too for some special recipes.