#cooking oil

[reality-detective]

Dr. Berg 🤔

[misforgotten2]

This makes even shrimp look tasty.

Family Circle - October 1958

[sweet-dining-car]

My favorite-

I just Ahhhahahahhdhsbshayagahsn

[individualentityinverydeepburrow]

🐁🐀Please see tags for trigger warnings. There isn't any graphic violence and no blood, but I'd hate for someone to come om to tumblr to enjoy themselves and become uncomfortable. 🪤 🐭 🖱

I work as a Janitor/custodian and there's a room in my section of the building that has glue traps. (If you don't know, animals usually die in a glue trap either by suffocation or starvation. If their mouth doesn't get stuck to the glue first, they can escape by amputating themselves.) I thought "that sounds bad but there's no way I'll go in there enought to actually see a mouse in the trap" and "If I see a mouse I'll catch it in my dust pan and set it free ouside".

Well, today I saw a mouse. It was screaming and struggling to get free. Its mouth was stuck against the trap along with its tail, and its feet were stuck to each other. I couldn't stand to see it in a panic.

So, I do what any sappy idiot like me would, and I carefully pull the mouse out of the trap (a mouse's tail is part if its spine so you have to be gentle not to pull its tail), and washed it off with the cheap bathroom soap. It struggled against me at first because I'm big and scarry, but once it was under warm water, it settled to a stable, exhausted nervousness.

But now the mouse is wet and it's really cold outside. So I wrapped it in a paper towel burrito and brought it to my janitorial closet. A while after I put the mouse on the shelf, it started to struggle against the paper towel. Which is weird, because it wasn't wrapped in a burrito anymore and was free to move. I then realized the soap and water didn't work! Its feet were no longer stuck together, and its rising and falling stomach signaled it could breathe, but its tail and paws had readhered to the brown capatalism paper.

Turns out, you can dissolve some adhesives with cooking oil. Thankfully, my area of the building had a culinary department and the culinary director was still there (I work the night shift so he's not always present). He said I could borrow some cooking pil from him, and he took me to a big pantry with a bunch of it. And gave me a lil plastic cup with just enough.

The glue immediately dissolved on contact and the mouse calmed down even more that I exspected it to ever see it around me. Now that it was free from its origina blight, I dried it off and picked it up to bring it outside. It curiously sniffed my hand and it was so soft and gentle. I put it on some grass, where it will hopefully find a warm place to rest and find peace.

Tw: living but sleepy and wet mouse under cut

ID: a wet drak grey mouse with its eyes closed in exhaustion and posibly relief.

[vintagepromotions]

Advertisement for Kraft All Purpose Oil (1959).

[airandangels]

Used frying oil + stearic acid = easily disposable goo

I really like deep frying food like doughnuts and kara age chicken but have been forgoing it for a while because of the difficulty of disposing of the oil. If you filter out any food crumbs after it cools down and/or clarify it using gelatin, you can re-use deep frying oil two or three times, but after repeated use it darkens and tends to develop an unpleasant flavour affecting the food. After that it's got to go.

You shouldn't pour it down the sink because it can contribute to fatbergs forming in the sewers. You can pour it back in the original bottle, put on the lid and put it out in the rubbish, but that means the bottle doesn't get recycled and the oil is trapped inside it in the landfill, unable to biodegrade. Restaurants have access to commercial oil removal services, which nowadays often convert the old oil to biodiesel so it gets another use, but these usually don't take oil from people's homes (kerbside oil collection may be available in some places, but certainly not where I live). I felt stink about the available options so I stopped deep-frying for a while to avoid the problem.

However, I've learned of a clever trick! You can buy stearic acid quite cheaply from the kind of stores that sell supplies for making scented soaps and candles. It's a substance sold in the form of small flakes or granules that has the property of solidifying oils (hence useful for making soaps and candles).

To solidify deep frying oil, either do this shortly after you finish cooking with it, or (if you're me) reheat some old oil you have sitting around in a bottle that you don't feel right about throwing away. It doesn't need to be super duper hot, just anywhere above about 100ºF/38ºC. For each cup of oil, add three tablespoons of stearic acid and let it dissolve (it will be pretty quick). Turn off the heat and put the pot at the back of the stove or somewhere else that it can cool down undisturbed.

The time it needs to solidify will vary depending on things like the quantity of oil and how well the pot retains heat, but I found that within a couple of hours four cups of oil in a cast-iron pot had gone cold and turned to a soft jelly consistency that could be easily scooped out of the pot and dropped in the rubbish bin. Grand.

There are, of course, packaged mixtures you can buy that do the same thing (one brand is called Fry Away) but plain stearic acid is cheaper so yay!

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Castella Cake from 1980

“…which answers the question of who came first?”

“Normally the guy.”

[delistathisunflower]

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[wachinyeya]

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[stone-cold-groove]

...and the family’s deaths were to put it mildly, gruesome.

[misforgotten2]

Though Mr. Peanut smiles for his adoring fans on the inside he despairs for the billions of innocent family and friends crushed by the evil oil company.

Sunset The Magazine of Western Living - April 1944

[sweet-dining-car]

Just love the fact that Dinah is the only coach that Greaseball actually pays attention too 🤭 he just loves his girl💕

Also the little kissy kissy 🫶🫶🫶

[old-type-40]

Looking through the notes, I see no awareness of the following.

[vintagepromotions]

‘Your light touch for all frying!’

Kraft All Purpose Oil advertisement (1959).

[mygymdiet]

Is Avocado Oil a Seed Oil or a Fruit Oil?

In this manuscript, we will consider the study of avocado oil and the potential classification of this oil to be a true seed, i.e., fruit, oil. We also will present some of its uniqueness, excitability, feeding habits and its employment as a frame of reference to the composition of avocado oil as compared with the composition of the oil from other seed or fruit processing. By the end of this comprehensive guide, you will be capable of explaining how to classify a specific avocado oil, as well as the benefits of a specific avocado oil.

1. Understanding Avocado Oil: The Basics

Avocado oil is extracted from the fruit of the avocado tree (Persea americana) which is a native of the Americas. This oil, which is creamy and rich, has been used for centuries in different cultures for its medical and properties. Although the most prevalent oils consumed are obtained from seeds and nuts (olive oil, sunflower oil, canola oil), avocado oil is very different as it is obtained and forms differently compared to the others.

2. Is Avocado Oil a Seed Oil?

Since we want to determine whether an avocado oil is a type of seed oil, its source is needed. Avocado oil is obtained from the pulp (alkali fruit) of the avocado and not from the germ. Unlike oil extracted from oil seeds, such as sunflower oil or flaxseed oil, avocado oil is not obtained from the oil seed (but not from avocado plant) plant, i.e., avocado plant. Extraction of avocado oil is most commonly done by mashing of fruit pulp.