Suggestions for vintage mini-lathe tools/techniques in the kitchen?

savarin said:
If you want an excellent oil for cooking then peanut oil is very good.
If stir frying then a good splash of peanut oil with a generous dash of sesame oil.
Its takes a high heat and tastes excellent. .
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For high heat try Brazil but oil.
I suggest a half dollar size dollop in a cast iron skillet and your favorite blackened ahi...


silence dogood said:
Charles, I asked the question of which oil to use in jest. However, you do bring up a good point. There are basically two types of canola oil. In this case, one would use the food grade. The industrial grade contains erucic acid, not good for human consumption. In fact, out here where a lot of canola is raised, the farmers are very careful on not raising the two types next to each other. By the way, rape seed came from the Latin word rapum which means turnip.
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When i worked in Hawaii back in the 90's, I was told by a canuck client from Edmonton way, they developed the oil for tanks back in the second WW.
Grew it there as a strategic reserve.
 
Charles Spencer said:
Canola obviously. Olive oil goes rancid more quickly and being less neutral might add unwanted flavors to your work.

If you didn't know, canola oil was invented in the 1970s, sort of. Marketers at the Rapeseed Association of Canada thought it would be a good idea to rename their product. The "can" at the beginning means Canada.

Way better than renaming the country Rapeseed.
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Seems reasonable ;^)
 
Charles Spencer said:
Canola obviously.

If you didn't know, canola oil was invented in the 1970s, sort of. Marketers at the Rapeseed Association of Canada thought it would be a good idea to rename their product.
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I think the marketers were brilliant turning world war II tank fuel into one of the most consumed oils by humans.
Definitely a larger market now than existed in 1969...
Any coincidental knock on effect to the medical industry from higher cholesterol is just a bonus... To medical marketers.
 
savarin said:
If you want an excellent oil for cooking then peanut oil is very good.
If stir frying then a good splash of peanut oil with a generous dash of sesame oil.
Its takes a high heat and tastes excellent.
And something which I have become addicted to (nothing to do with machining) is a peeled tomato mashed to a paste with garlic and fine chopped sweet basil smeared onto crusty bread with a bowl of cold pressed olive oil containing black pepper, salt and chili vinegar. Dip bread into oil and eat, scrumptious.
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I've recently been converted to coconut oil and ghee for all my cooking especially high heat style like stir frying. Still like olive oil for salads etc.
 
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