Guest guest Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 I know in the South people would save their lard and cooking fat to reuse. Is it safe to do this with coconut oil? My virgin coconut oil cost a fortune and i don't want to waste any. If i cook food in a pan with CO, is it ok to reuse the oil that has been tainted with food? Even if i cooked meat? Thanks, Elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 Well, what _I'd_ like to do sometime is make french fries with CO, though _that_ would cost a _fortune_! CO is pretty hard to go rancid, but I wonder if one were to, say, deep fry with it, perhaps one could reuse it if it were the refined or semi-refined kind, as my guess is the coconut solids are more heat-sensitive than the saturated fats, just like the milk solids in butter burn easy but the fat doesn't oxidize as easy. Chris ____ " What can one say of a soul, of a heart, filled with compassion? It is a heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature. Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the truth, and for those who do them wrong. " --Saint Isaac the Syrian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 im not 100% on this with coconut oil ( i know the other oils are basicalyl rancid/altered after that ) personally i eat it all up ;)just poor it over the meat or wahtever. but yeah its not cheap! ( especially for me wiht the crappy australian $$ when i order it ) > I know in the South people would save their lard and cooking fat to reuse. > Is it safe to do this with coconut oil? My virgin coconut oil cost a fortune > and i don't want to waste any. If i cook food in a pan with CO, is it ok to > reuse the oil that has been tainted with food? Even if i cooked meat? > Thanks, > Elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 I have had cocnut oil go rancid by leaving it out at room temp for a long time. Of course room temp in the summer here is sometimes 85 deg. Anyway, it was omega brand so that might have made a difference but it was definitely rancid. At 05:20 AM 10/17/02, you wrote: >Well, what _I'd_ like to do sometime is make french fries with CO, though >_that_ would cost a _fortune_! CO is pretty hard to go rancid, but I wonder >if one were to, say, deep fry with it, perhaps one could reuse it if it were >the refined or semi-refined kind, as my guess is the coconut solids are more >heat-sensitive than the saturated fats, just like the milk solids in butter >burn easy but the fat doesn't oxidize as easy. > >Chris > >____ > > " What can one say of a soul, of a heart, filled with compassion? It is a >heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and >animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of >them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense >compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to >bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature. >Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the >truth, and for those who do them wrong. " > >--Saint Isaac the Syrian > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 > I know in the South people would save their lard and cooking fat to reuse. > Is it safe to do this with coconut oil? My virgin coconut oil cost a fortune > and i don't want to waste any. If i cook food in a pan with CO, is it ok to > reuse the oil that has been tainted with food? Even if i cooked meat? > Thanks, > Elaine My preference would be to only use as much oil as I can eat up at that meal. For example - fry potatoes in a couple Tbsp of CO rather than deep fying them. The CO is stable, but some of the other nutrients in good CO are probably more subject to heat degradation. KRis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 28, 2002 Report Share Posted October 28, 2002 I think my recently purchased Omega coconut oil was also rancid. Roman Irene Musiol wrote: > > I have had cocnut oil go rancid by leaving it out at room temp for a long > time. Of course room temp in the summer here is sometimes 85 deg. Anyway, > it was omega brand so that might have made a difference but it was > definitely rancid. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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