When you make your own mayonnaise, the kind of oil you use makes all the difference in the outcome. It’s important to use a neutral oil; since oil makes up the main body of the mayonnaise, any oil with pronounced flavors...

Most "vegetable oil" labelled as such is either entirely soybean oil or a mixture of soybean and canola oils. I prefer 100% soybean versions; that’s what I use in the deep fryer. Safflower oil is very nice. Medium viscosity,...

Be careful of smoking (burning) point - "vegetable oil" usually is predominantly soybean, which smokes at a lower temp than peanut. I’ve never done a turkey, but I definitely see a difference when using my element-in-oil...

Depends on what your cooking. Corn oil, peanut, soybean and safflower all have a flash point of right around 450 degrees. For stir fry I often blend with sesame oil even though the flash point is slightly lower.

is partially hydrogenated soybean oil. How can it claim to have no trans fat? I guess I’m confused because I thought the terms “trans fat” and "partial hydrogenated oil" were synonymous. This product tastes...

Is this something that affects some people and not others? I probably buy 40 gallons of canola oil for high heat cooking every day, and I’ve never heard a complaint. Anyway, I’d suggest soybean oil as an alternative....

Soybean oil (for that Japanese Kewpie style taste)

Your post inspired me to try out a bottle of chili oil that my daughter gave me. Lee Kum Kee...Pretty common brand. It was good in my fried rice (I like hot stuff) Afterward I looked at the label. Two ingredients. Soybean oil and...

to be able to find grapeseed oil at a decent price but no more so I gave up on that. For deep-frying, I must confess I’m too cheap to use peanut oil only once and too lazy to filter with too small a fridge to save it so I...

"Whenever I’m served it in noticeable quantity, something tastes funny, though it takes me a while to figure it out." And I’m not being a snob. Soybean oil is fine (if not something I’d use at home where I use...

oil industry throughout the ensuing decades. Adding insult to injury, the soybean industry began to condemn the use of tropical oils, particularly coconut oil. And I’m sure you realize the reason why — competition......

The University of South Carolina runs its shuttle buses on soybean oil. It has some sort of grant (I assume federal Dept. of Energy) to do so. The exhaust is definitely cleaner.

, and when I worked in the business, found that some “extra-virgins” were 30 percent soybean oil through lab tests of competitors products. Turkey, Israel and Spain are major producers, and while Spain has some cache,...

-401 degrees • vegetable shortenings — 356-370 degrees • olive oil — 375 degrees • vegetable oils (includes corn, safflower, soybean, peanut, avocado and grapeseed) — 441-450 degrees" However, having...

and soybean oils, when heated to frying temperatures develop a strong unpleasant ‘room odour’ so called because it lingers in the frying environment rather than in the fried food. This odour has been described as...