What Cooking Oils Should I Keep in My Pantry?
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The cooking oil aisle can be surprisingly confusing. From canola to vegetable, grapeseed to avocado, it’s hard to know which you should keep on hand — and that’s all before olive oil! We’ll help you determine which cooking oils you need, which you don’t, and which you can substitute for others so that you can save your dollars and pantry space.
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Olive oils for cooking in the +/- $1.00/ounce range
- Graza Olive Oil, Sizzle for cooking and Drizzle for an affordable everyday finishing oil
- California Olive Ranch, a quality everyday cooking olive oil easily found at conventional supermarkets
- Frantoia Olive Oil, one of Stacie’s everyday go-to cooking olive oils
Quality cooking and dressing olive oils priced great in bulk tins
- This large tin of Frantoia is a great deal
- Iliada Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Quality olive oils in the $2 to 4/ounce range
- Brightland Olive Oil
- Fat Gold Olive Oil
- Wonder Valley
- Branche Olive Oil duo
- Kosterina, a great source of extra virgin and flavored olive oils
- Yiayia and Friends olive oils, extra virgin and flavored too
- Morgenster Estate Olive Oil, an award-winning olive oil Stacie got to try in South Africa, where it’s made - delicious!
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| 0:00.0 | If you're making a dressing and let's say you're having a party and you're serving eight |
| 0:07.4 | people, you just have a big family, use that less expensive light or pure olive oil as the |
| 0:13.7 | base of your dressing so that you're not glug, glugging, you're like high quality, |
| 0:18.1 | expensive stuff. And then do the last quarter of it, the good |
| 0:22.9 | stuff, the extra virgin, so that it imparts flavor, but you haven't, like, wasted it because it |
| 0:29.1 | can be really expensive. |
| 0:31.3 | Welcome to didn't I just feed you. |
| 0:33.8 | A podcast about feeding kids. |
| 0:37.6 | Hey, I'm Stacy. |
| 0:39.5 | And I'm Megan. |
| 0:41.1 | We're finally, finally, answering some questions that have come up this year in our listeners community. |
| 0:48.1 | Okay, but Megan, we've been answering a lot of questions. |
| 0:50.9 | When you say finally, you mean this question. |
| 0:53.1 | This question in particular, because people |
| 0:55.4 | want to know what kind of oils we buy for cooking. And I feel like this is specifically aimed |
| 1:01.9 | at you, our resident Greek woman, Stacey, what kind of olive oils they should buy and be using |
| 1:10.2 | for different purposes. |
| 1:11.7 | Is this a microaggression? |
| 1:14.0 | Is it? |
| 1:14.8 | No, I'm totally joking. |
| 1:17.2 | Totally joking. |
| 1:18.5 | I've been profiled. |
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