Indonesia, the world's top cooking-oil exporter, says it's going to ban exports of the oil this week, and it's sent the global prices of edible oils soaring

YAHOO Finance ^ | 04/24/2022 | Huileng Tan

[aimhigh]

Inflation. Time to return to lard.

[neverevergiveup]

Sounds like time to stock up on olive oil.

[kiryandil]

Check your processed foods labels.

Palm oil is in a big chunk of lots of processed foods.

Good thing I started avoiding Franken oils more than a few years ago.

[kiryandil]

Sounds like time to stock up on olive oil.

The one problem with olive oil is that adulterating it is lucrative business.

Avocado oil is less expensive - but I think it's a taste you have to get used to.

[mylife]

Damn! now I have to use Venezuelan beaver oil!!

[Vaduz]

Save the bacon grease

[BiglyCommentary]

Olive, avocado, coconut.

FYI Olive is good to about 350F, Avocado is good to about 550F.

[SpaceBar]

The great lipid calamity of 2022.

[mylife]

this would never happen when megawati sukarno putri was running things...

[Wuli]

Palm oil - high in saturated fats - about 34%.

But I imagine it is an oil that is more readily available in some parts of the world than some healthier oils.

[Pollard]

Odd, I don’t think I really see palm oil in many packaged food ingredient lists. Don’t think I’ve ever seen bottles of palm oil in the store either.

Corn, vegetable, canola, soybean, olive.

Sesame and peanut even.

[catnipman]

to a large degree, cooking oils are a fungible commodity, so massive price increases in one, esp. one that represents such a large percentage of the total commodity, are guaranteed to increase the prices of all of the rest ...

[jurroppi1]

Good avocado oil has no discernible flavor - same with good fractionated coconut oil.

[Jane Long]

Just received our shipments of several YUGE tin cans of our fave OO.

The tins tend to last a lot longer than the bottled version. At least, for us, anyway.

[kiryandil]

Good to know! Thanks for the tip!  

[Jane Long]

I’ve been freezing bacon grease. So many cooking uses for good bacon grease.

[nikos1121]

Palm oil is poisonous to the body..

[semimojo]

But I imagine it is an oil that is more readily available in some parts of the world than some healthier oils.

It's also responsible for a huge amount of deforestation. Very controversial product.

[saleman]

Air Fryer!

[blam]

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