Topic: Veg Oil/Extra Virgin Olive Oil

[Curry Barking Mad]

Grapeseed oil is cheap in my asda and is lablled both as grapeseed oil and their standard vegetable oil for a quid a litre, just checked it again and sorry to cause any confusion but mine actually says rapeseed and not grapeseed so maybe there is a difference. Correct me if i'm wrong on this.

Hi Rhordri,
They are very different,
Grapeseed oil is as it suggests made from grape seeds,
Rapeseed oil comes from the fields of yellow flowers you may see around Britain and will generally be the oil that is used in a bottled oil called Vegetable Oil in Tescos etc
Regards,
Mick

[Peripatetic Phil]

Grapeseed oil is cheap in my asda and is lablled both as grapeseed oil and their standard vegetable oil for a quid a litre, just checked it again and sorry to cause any confusion but mine actually says rapeseed and not grapeseed so maybe there is a difference. Correct me if i'm wrong on this.

Yep, they are totally different, Rhodri : grapeseed comes from grape seeds, as you would expect; rapeseed comes from that horrible yellow modern blot on the farming landscape that causes such massive problems for sufferers from hay fever, so I never use the latter.

** Phil.

[JerryM]

rhodriharris,

much appreciate the extra info - i understand your reply completely.

on the veg oil. i also use olive pomace (50:50 refined olive:veg). you can tell the difference but not vast - may be worth a try.

[rhodriharris]

  I have ordered some organic virgin coconut oil, 'Bioana' or somthing like that.  400grams 6.75 pounds and 6.50 pounds delivery, so 13.25 quid and wow is that exspensive.  I convinced my girlfriend that it would be good for her skin so she let me buy it on her card.  I am hoping my local chinese shop can still get me the rice bran oil although what i have futher read on coconut oil suggests that i will be happy with it in the future.  I have taken my time to find a mild tasting one that won't flavour the food much and says that the taste cooks out and is barely noticable.  It does go on to say that it is good for weight loss and cholesterol and that the body burns up any fat real quick in the liver so i can't see why it would contribute to higher cholesterol, describes it as a neutral food so does no harm to cholesterol levels. looking like a real viable alternative to olive oils i hope and definatly withstands the high temps of frying.
  I am gona look at the rice bran oil again whilst the coconut info is still fresh in my head and hopefully midweek i will be able to tell you my opinions of curry fried with each different oil. So many oils to look at, maybe someone got some info on grapeseed oil for me as i thought it was rapeseed oil, now there is another oil on the market i didn't know about.

[PaulP]

Hi Rhod,

I paid about 24 pounds for 3x450ml tubs of organic virgin coconut oil including postage.
This stuff isn't cheap! Let us know what you think.

I'm waiting to see how much the one gallon tub will cost when Amazon actually list the price. It's a lovely product though. I couldn't taste coconut after I'd cooked a curry with it even when I used a whole 450 ml tub in a 3 litre curry base.

Are you in the UK? Sainsburys and Tesco both stock rice bran oil where I live.

Cheers,

Paul

[rhodriharris]

Yer there is a tesco's in the next town, we only got an asda and it's rubbish for anything speciality.  I will post my thoughts on it and hopefully some pics (although i am lazy in the pic department).  I should of ordered the organic rice bran oil of the internet, think i seen it somewhere but i had asked my local chinese shop first and they seemed keen to get some for me.  Even the chinese lady their who cooks a lot of chinese food had never heard of it, strange!

[rhodriharris]

My first coconut oil!