When it comes to cooking, cooking oil is the most common ingredient and in our opinion, the most crucial!

As the previous post has suggested the iodine value on types of cooking oil whether it is vegetable, canola, peanut, avocado, olive, palm or coconut oil.

There are benefits and take backs on depending on the use of the cooking oil during the cooking process.

We respect that cooking is as unique in personal style and chefs’ signatures in cooking by mastering how they apply the oil. In our opinion, the cooking oil should result in added benefit in both nutrition and taste with minimum harmful side effects during the process.

Since not every oil is created equal and some are fit for some jobs while others are better at others.

Based on the iodine value of cooking oil, the higher the level, the higher the oxidation while it is being heated. And that is why you would get a sticky pot, the one that can’t easily wash off even with dish detergent, after cooking with some of these oils: soybean, canola, or vegetable oil. That is because those oils have high iodine value and have been oxidized and become a sticky film of plastic like material when heated past a certain point.

If you notice cooking with coconut oil and butter (butter brown easily in heat and have low smoke point), you won’t have that issue of sticky pot. And they have a very low iodine value, more stable under the cooking process.

There is give and take on these oil depending on the usage:

For example, Coconut oil may be great for heating but they are high saturated fat content (low iodine value: low in unsaturated fat) but that is what makes them more stable for heating. On the other hand, vegetable, soybean and canola oil have low saturated fat content (high iodine value: high in unsaturated fat), considering lean on fat intakes (saturated fat) but highly unstable during heating.

Maybe that is why we see so many salad dressing made with these vegetable oils because they are applied in cold settings. Regardless of your preference in cooking, knowing the properties of cooking oils can help you design and create wonderful dishes that are both tasty and excellent for your health!

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