What Vegetables Go Into Vegetable Oil?

Mostly soybeans.

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Three years is an awfully long time to keep something that’s supposed to be edible. I appreciate your attempt at frugality but with all the fuss about hydrogenated and trans fats these days, I’d think the shortening...

in a fermented black bean sauce. My boyfriend and I like Andy’s Chicken so much that now that we live in San Jose and we have those once in awhile weekends where we get to go to one of our beloved Berkeley institutions for...

Hmm.. "Olive Garden Culinary Institute"... I would place that in the pantheon of oxymorons, right up there with “military intelligence” and “Microsoft Works”.

of hydrogen to unsaturated fats to link up with the open hydrogen bond and make them solid at room temp. In other words, to make oil into shortening or margarine. But liquid oils can also have trans fats, typically formed during...

I also don’t know the first thing about baking. I think that butter qualifies as a shortening, however. I believe that shortening is just any edible fat. Some of them have the effect of making the pastry more crispy, and...

about 35 to 40 minutes before it softened to the texture I find edible. (Previously I would cut up a potato and boil it. I suppose I am getting more nutrients by steaming it. Next time, I will cut it up into quarters and therby...

Shortening or lard. It will not leave that sticky residue that liquid oils can. It is all I will use.

from wikipedia... Macadamia oil is an excellent frying oil due to its high heat capacity. Several properties of macadamia oil are particularly important for use as an edible oil: It contains up to 85% monounsaturated fats, has an...

Can your fries be crispy and your chicken crunchy when there’s no more shortening in the kitchen? An NYC culinary school puts the new trans fat ban to the test.

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[food snob warning] There’s no frosting made without dairy that’s edible. Shortening is a disgusting ingredient in frosting. [food snobbery over] If this is a yummy, rich chocolate cake, many people (depending on how...

increase in the height of my bread using this. Someone mentioned King Arthur. I find All Trump high gluten flour at my local Costco – 25# for about $6.50. I’m not sure what you mean by "shortening." Try a tablespoon or...

, oxygen supply and time. Importantly, proper seasoning is crucial in order that edible films do not function as a carriers of microbials, which could perhaps be impervious to cooking temperatures. The challenge for the...