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Cooking Oil Can Make Or Break Your Dish, Here's How To Pick The Right One

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07.08.2025

Person pouring cooking oil.

I’ll be honest: until recently, I had a fairly laissez-faire attitude to cooking oils. For the most part, I would just reach for the closest bottle and say, “yeah, that will do”.

Well, it turns out that I had been doing myself a disservice this entire time because the cooking oils you use can really make or break a dish and that time I followed all the instructions but somehow burnt an entire dinner? Yeah, I used the wrong oil.

Thankfully, you don’t have to make the same mistake I did...

The different types of cooking oil and when to use them

Olive oil

Olive oil is ideal for shallow-frying foods like chicken, pork chops and egg-based dishes like pancakes. It loses some of the benefits once it hits above 210 °C, according to the heat experts at

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