i love olive oil and use it every time i can but there are cases in the kitchen where olive oil is a mistake think about it do you really want your carrot cake to taste like olives no you want to be using a neutral i.e flavorless vegetable oil so i've got some choices here on the table but let me start by explaining an important thing about refined versus unrefined so some of these oils the peanut the avocado the coconut come in unrefined versions as well as refined the unrefined ones are going to taste like the plant that's not what we want here we want the refined absolutely tasteless remember this is a cooking medium not a flavoring agent so let me break down the choices and explain what we like in the test kitchen and what i like at home so corn oil fine in almost every application that we tried in the kitchen except in mayonnaise it was a little sour next up canola also fine in most applications except for frying it has fatty acids that break down and oxidize and kind of taste a little fishy and honestly i don't want my donuts to taste like fish peanut oil great for high heat especially frying makes amazing french fries but it's more expensive than the rest of these which leaves us with the best all-purpose choice which is a blend like crisco blend this is multiple oils so you get the best of all worlds it's also inexpensive so the two more vegetable oils that are in the news a lot i want to tell you a little bit about avocado oil here is super high in monounsaturated fats just like olive oil and so it's got those health properties people are excited about cooks really well it can heat to NUMBER_TOKEN degrees it's great for sauteing it's really expensive though that's the downside coconut oil is perfect for vegan baking it's solid at room temperature just like butter and for cakes and cookies where you're looking to replace the butter this is the choice so all of these vegetable oils their cooking properties are pretty different from each other you may want multiple vegetable oils in your pantry so that you can do multiple things in your kitchen
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