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Why is everybody obsessed with avacado oil when it is clearly a conspiracy by big oil (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every single recipe nowadays calls for avocado oil, but I see no advantages compared with virgin olive oil for salads or sunflower oil for cooking, and that's even if the avocado oil isn't 1) rancid or 2) soybean oil wearing a hat and moustache. Plus, aren't avocados notoriously water intensive and bad for the environment? Save them for eating, I say.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Avocado oil can withstand higher heat than most other oils. Refined avocado oil has a smoke point of 270°C, compared to extra virgin olive oil which smokes at only 190°C. So it's good to use in anything that you cook at very high temps but for a lot of recipes it probably doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Manufactured fad diet #221 shrug-outta-hecks

All flavorless oils taste the same to me shocked-pikachu

Edit: if you're micromanaging your various fat intakes then it matters I guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I’m waiting for my avocado oil to finish, then I’m just getting sunflower oil. I got it for “health”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

In a proper socialist government avocado oil must be shut down so we can have more 🥑 for guacamole

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would assume the oil is made from the seed which is probably a waste product anyways if you’re making processed avocado products

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its made from the same part of the avacado we eat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Disgusting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I cook a hell of a lot and have only once or twice seen a recipe recommend avocado oil. Where are you getting your recipes from?