Kelapo Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Cooking Spray or what?

If you use very little oil there really isn't much difference what fat you use. Just go with the one that tastes the best. That's like people putting a teaspoon of honey instead of sugar in their tea because it has 0.00001% or something of some kinds of vitamins. It's just isn't worth it unless honey is the exact taste you are going for.

Personally I start my stir fries with a tiny bit of any good old cooking oil (sunflower in most cases) then add some extra virgin deep flavored olive oil 30 seconds before taking it off the heat. It adds a rustic taste out of this world.

I have been using grapeseed oil just because the spray unit doesn't use any other ingredients in it. It also stands up to high heat fairly well. Olive oil has a comparatively low burn temperature so I don't use that. I sometimes use peanut oil, too - I buy the kind of peanut butter that has only peanuts and salt, and the oil rises to the top unless you stir it in - so a tsp of that gives a nice flavor.

I would suggest coconut oil or hempseed oil. Both are very light, and easy to digest. I don't really use oil that much anymore myself, but when I do I'll usually choose coconut oil. Hempseed oil is great on salads, however, I usually reserve it for washing my face.

I buy an organic olive oil cooking spray from Whole Foods just because it makes it easier to get even distribution when I'm cooking in pots or pans. For salads and things like that, I use bottled olive oil

eric2light wrote: »

@yarwell what WILL spray well and fry well via a Misto Brushed Aluminum Olive Oil Sprayer?

Not familiar with the device personally but any of the liquid oils shoiuld spray OK. Check out the smoke point of different oils (higher is better) and consider if you want to avoid too much omega-6 PUFA. Rapeseed / canola oil or olive oil, perhaps peanut or walnut oil.:

There's a good web page of oils and properties https://www.noom.com/blog/eat/2015/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cooking-oils/ may not be it but happy searching !

eric2light wrote: »

I want to eat really clean so I'd like to get my fats from things like nuts. When I stir-fry veggies I'd like to use very little oil, PAM style but I want to use something with good quality ingredients. So, I'm looking for a healthy cooking oil spray. What do folks recommend?

Thanks!

I'm stir frying and scrambling eggs in T-fal Professional Non-Stick Fry Pans with just a tiny bit of oil. It's America's Test Kitchen's top rated non-stick skillet. I have the 12.5" and 10" - I always add veggies to scrambled eggs so needed a bigger pan than 8".

I noticed that some of the reviews on Amazon said the bigger pan warped, so I bought it at Kohl's to make a return necessary if one was needed, but I didn't have this issue. I love them.

As someone else mentioned, you don't have to use oil, if you don't want to. A little broth and moving the food will cook it, too. Won't fry it, but will cook it.

Extra Virgin is better for dressings and dips and stuff like that. Once you put it in a hot pan, all that expensive flavor disappears, so you're much better off with regular Olive oil...well, your wallet is, anyway. In the store, many are labeled for "cooking" and not.

If you do use oil, it's hard to figure out exactly how many calories. I always log whatever I put in the pan. I know it might be higher than I actually swallowed, but the extraordinary effort involved with calculating exactly how much oil is on each piece of food - it's more than I can do. And way more than I want to do.

I use an olive oil spritzer thing. Coconut oil is easy to measure by tsp, which isn't that much.

What's unclean about olive oil or coconut oil (or butter, for that matter)?

eric2light wrote: »

Queenmunchy wrote: »

I have a misto - it works great, but gets clogged easily.

@Queenmunchy easy to unclog? How do you do it?

Honestly, there are tutorials online, but I just have it sitting here lol. My mom had one at least 20 years ago too! I love the green pans - no oil needed, but a tiny amount (even 1 gram of butter or a little oil on a paper towel wiped on) works really well.

eric2light wrote: »

I assume that I can use less and get the same amount of non-stick using a sprayer, no? Better distribution of the oil than w/o a sprayer?

You can put a small amount of oil in a pan and wipe it round with your fingers or a small square of kitchen roll. I don't think there's any need to be that paranoid about fat intake though.