Go on a diet, India tells USAmericans

Really? Why canola? Is it for cooking? Does it heat up to a higher temp? I cook with extra virgin olive oil. Unless I'm in a funny mood - then I cook with butter! :eek:

Mainly I buy one of those massive drums of olive oil and leave it on the top of the cupboard and fill a bottle once in awhile.

3500 kcals is equal to a pound of body fat
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If I ate American food I would probably be fat. I just can't eat the stuff - I get slow, tired, sick, skin goes off, fat, .... nope it's just no good.

It's cheaper and more fun to cook at home.
 
macadamia nut oil:D

but its VERY expensive unfortunatly so i do as michael and buy a 5L drum to fill up my bottle with
 
Michael said:
Really? Why canola? Is it for cooking? Does it heat up to a higher temp?
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Highly saturated oils which are solid at room temperature are degraded less by heat, but theyre not as healthy as oils which smoke at a lower temp.

So for frying, I go with a moderate oil like canola.

Heres an excellent documentary on the food crises in Egypt btw. Kids are skipping school to line up and buy subsidized bread at one cent a loaf.

Unsubsidized bread at ten cents a loaf is too expensive for half the population.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piz0GhB8bEY&feature=related
 
thats interesting Carcano. Butter must be the exception because whenever you want to use butter to give flavor to something that still needs to be sautaied at a resonable temp we add olive oil to increase the flash point. Butter by itself burns at a VERY low temp
 
Asguard said:
thats interesting Carcano. Butter must be the exception because whenever you want to use butter to give flavor to something that still needs to be sautaied at a resonable temp we add olive oil to increase the flash point. Butter by itself burns at a VERY low temp
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Probably the milk solids in butter which are burning, not the fat content.

Clarified butter (called Ghee in India) with the milk solids removed has a higher smoke point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee

"When cooking, it can be unhealthy to heat polyunsaturated oils such as vegetable oils to high temperatures. Doing so creates peroxides and other free radicals. These substances lead to a variety of health problems and diseases. On the other hand, ghee has a very high smoke point and doesn't burn or smoke easily during cooking.

Because ghee has the more stable saturated bonds (i.e., it lacks double bonds which are easily damaged by heat) it is not as likely to form the dangerous free radicals when cooking."
 
So I shouldn't cook with olive oil? I havn't noticed that it smokes much... but maybe a little?


What does macadamia nut oil taste like? Do you cook with it or pour it onto salad? Or both?
 
Carcano said:
Probably the milk solids in butter which are burning, not the fat content.

Clarified butter (called Ghee in India) with the milk solids removed has a higher smoke point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee

"When cooking, it can be unhealthy to heat polyunsaturated oils such as vegetable oils to high temperatures. Doing so creates peroxides and other free radicals. These substances lead to a variety of health problems and diseases. On the other hand, ghee has a very high smoke point and doesn't burn or smoke easily during cooking.

Because ghee has the more stable saturated bonds (i.e., it lacks double bonds which are easily damaged by heat) it is not as likely to form the dangerous free radicals when cooking."
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It also has an excellent flavor, I use ghee for all my pan frying needs.
 
Michael said:
So I shouldn't cook with olive oil? I havn't noticed that it smokes much... but maybe a little?
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You could use the 'wet-saute' method, where you add a small amount of water to the pan while frying with oil.

This lowers the temperature a bit and prevents smoking.
 
Carcano thats called stewing and is not what you want when cooking cirtain things fish and onions being a good example. There is another option and thats to use cotton seed oil insted of conola or olive. That is what commertial kitchens use in there deep fryers

Michael you COULD cook with macadamia nut oil but as a small bottle of that is more expencive than 5L of EV i wouldnt recomend it alone (mix it with either straight veg oil or better yet penut oil)
 
Asguard said:
Carcano thats called stewing and is not what you want when cooking certain things fish and onions being a good example.
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Stewing uses a lot of water and time. The wet-saute method uses a small amount of water that boils off in a few minutes.
 
your better off using an oil with a high flash point from the start. Take steak for instance, the best way (and the ONLY way in a restraunt) to cook a steak is by putting it in a pan that is smoking hot and searing it. This carmilises the outside and makes it taste better (also you only turn it once in a pan or turn it side ways to get a cross hatch and only over once on a char grill). If you reduce the heat by putting water into the pan however you end up with a grey coloured steak that tastes watery.
 
Also, there was this Aussie BBQ book that was out 3 years ago and it was really popular, had some steak BBQ recipes with lots of spices. Any thing you remember?
 
S.A.M. said:
I think peanut oil is the best cooking medium there is.
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Mostly yes - unless you are allergic of course :D

It depends on what you are cooking though - if you are frying vegetables etc and you want that really crispy golden brown effect, the bext medium is a base of peanut oil, with a little clarified butter, and then throw in little cubes of butter as the food cooks.

In terms of cooking meat, I like to get an electic ceramic hob ring at its highest setting until its glowing, and then drop the meat straight on - no oil - just a little seasoning - if the meat is thick, I'll then finish it under the grill to cook it through - unless its steak, in which case its best to have it seared to buggery on the outside and pink and juicy ion the middle.
You'll need to have the windows open for this technique :D
 
Peanut Oil and Olive Oil are the best for Omega-3 and DHA. I think Peanut Oil is slightly cheaper than Oilive Oil as it is produced in USA.

There is talk that the pension funds and sovreign funds are buying commodity futures such as food and oil for better return of their money which in turn let the price go up.
 
S.A.M. said:
If Americans were to slim down to even the middle-class weight in India, "many hungry people in sub-Saharan Africa would find food on their plates," Mehta said.
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This is a common fallacy that would be forgivable except that people who know better keep spreading it just to foment hatred of America.

The reasons for the starvation in sub-Saharan Africa have very little to do with the abundance of food in America and everything to do with the leadership of sub-Saharan Africa. America produces a surplus of food that even we can't eat and we are a generous people despite our confiscatory taxation rate. American churches and other charities collect enough money to buy millions of tons of food and ship it to Africa. The problem is that when it gets there the poor people never see it. Their leaders hijack it and sell it on the black market, and use the money to buy guns, champagne, SUVs and Italian villas.
The money Americans spend on liposuction to get rid of their excess fat could be funneled to famine victims instead, he added.
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Sending money to the Third World is even more foolish than sending them food. Their leaders don't even have to take the time to sell the stuff, they just grab the money.

The problems in the Third World cannot be solved by charity. Their political systems are corrupt and they have leaders who genuinely do not give a damn about their own people. Pick five African countries at random and four of them will be led my men (and they're always men, aren't they?) who make George Bush look like a messiah.
 
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