In this video, we'll uncover the best oils for deep frying.
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In this video, we're talking about the best oils for deep frying.
This is a topic that's very important because there is a lot of misinformation out there
on it.
As a matter of fact, in one of my last videos, I kind of grazed this topic and what happened
is a lot of people had further questions because I didn't cover it in depth and then a lot
of people had shared different resources from the internet that had really bad information
on it so I want to make sure that we clear that up.
Now, when we're talking about these different oils, one of the things that's very important
to know is that you can actually take a good fat and turn it into a bad fat.
The way that you do this is by denaturing it.
So, if you take a good fat and you take that fat that is not designed to be heated to a
high temperature and you heat it up like that, what will happen is it will reach its smoke
point.
Once it reaches that smoke point, the fats become denatured and once again, you've taken
that good fat and turned it into a bad fat.
The other way that you can take a good fat and turn into a bad fat is by oxidizing is
so what happens is when the oil reacts with oxygen, it becomes oxidized and once again,
is not going to be one that you want to consume.
When you go to all your different favorite restaurants out there, favorite fast food
places, they're guaranteed to be cooked, with not only bad oils like hydrogenated and partially
hydrogenated oils but also oils that are not designed to not actually be cooked at a high
smoke point so we got to be really careful with that.
I think one of the reasons that there is a lot of misinformation on this topic is because
when I looked at all these different resources that were shared from different health gurus
on the internet, essentially, what I found is that they were sharing different oils that
had high smoke points but they were partially hydrogenated oils and they're hydrogenated
oils.
So, when I look at these different oils that you can actually fry with, I'm looking at
them through the lens of first, we have to make the choice of getting the healthy oils
and then from that point, we actually go and make sure that we're choosing the best healthy
oils for cooking and heating to a high temperature.
Let's go ahead and jump into this.
The first one here is the avocado oil.
Avocado oil is really great because it has a smoke point of 500 degrees.
That means you can heat it up really hot.
Great for frying your favorite chicken recipe, your favorite sweet potato fry recipe.
They're really great for that.
Next on our list is coconut oil.
Coconut oil has a smoke point of 450 degrees which also makes it excellent.
As a matter of fact, coconut oil is one of my favorites because it actually is a much
lesser expensive option than the avocado oil.
If you're going to fry with avocado oil and need a lot of it, that's going to be a pretty
expensive option right there.
So coconut oil is a much more reasonable option for frying.
A little bit lesser of a smoke point so we want to make sure that we're not heating it
too high but once again, it's a great option for frying.
Next on our list here is ghee.
It has a smoke point of 485 degrees.
I look at ghee as being really great for sauteing some different vegetables or even doing some
pan frying because you typically aren't going to get that hot but you're also aren't going
to need that much of it.
When we look at ghee, it's going to be an expensive option for deep frying because you
would need a lot of ghee to be able to really deep fry some sweet potato fries or chicken
once again.
Next on our list is olive oil.
Olive oil is a great option.
There are two different points here that we need to look at.
Extra virgin olive oil has a smoke point of 420 degrees and then refined olive oil has
468 degrees smoke point.
Now, this is important because you're just going to have to make sure you use a lesser
heat if you're using an extra virgin olive oil.
A lot of people don't really like frying with olive oil that much because it changes the
flavor quite a bit.
Olive oil has a strong flavor of its own so whatever you're frying it's going to adapt
that flavor quite a bit so that's always something you have to consider.
Last on our list is going to be butter.
Butter is not by any means good for deep frying but I want to mention it because a lot of
people love cooking with butter, love pan frying with butter and we want to make sure
that we're using it correctly.
When you're using butter, it only has a smoke point of 350 degrees.
This makes it great for baking but it also makes it okay for maybe cooking an egg over
the frying pan and the reason for that is because you don't have to heat it that high.
You can even saute some vegetables in butter and keep it at a low heat.
As a rule of thumb, when you take that butter, if you're cooking with it in a pan and the
butter turns brown and starts to smoke, then you have taken that good fat, that good butter
and turned it into an unhealthy fat and at that point, you don't want to consume it.
So, we have to just know that about butter and just kind of know that rule of thumb and
watch out for that the next time you're cooking an egg or something in a frying pan.
So butter's great but it has a very low smoke point so we want to be careful with it.
These are the best fats here for deep frying.
Make sure that you utilize these whenever you're deep frying and you're not getting
unhealthy fats or not even getting a good fat and turning it into an unhealthy fat.
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