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5. Very high smoke point, similar to safflower oil. So it's good for...

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #2)

Sun May 1, 2022, 02:14 AM

May 2022

...very high-temperature cooking like deep-frying and stir-frying. Far East wok cooking usually causes the food to briefly catch fire from the oil spray, etc. There may be some other reasons why sunflower oil is desirable as well, including availability.

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Sunflower oil vanishes as Ukraine War Grinds On. [View all] Tomconroy Apr 2022 OP

I read yesterday that palm oil was in short supply also. riversedge Apr 2022 #1

Hmmm. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2022 #2

Apparently it's a very popular cooking oil in other parts of the Tomconroy May 2022 #3

I use it in cooking as well as homemade lip balm and hand salve. Wonderfully airmid May 2022 #4

I'll admit to being quite befuddled PoindexterOglethorpe May 2022 #6

You can use olive oil and hemp oil in cooking and lip bam obamanut2012 May 2022 #7

Why not? Spider Jerusalem May 2022 #8

Plant oils have been used in cosmetics for thousands of years blogslug May 2022 #10

I've used only plant based products for skin MerryBlooms May 2022 #14

Very high smoke point, similar to safflower oil. So it's good for... keep_left May 2022 #5

it was the most common cooking oil in the UK muriel_volestrangler May 2022 #9

Quite Common Cooking Oil ProfessorGAC May 2022 #17

Safflower similar? WarGamer May 2022 #20

Pretty Close, Yes ProfessorGAC May 2022 #21

The Ukraine war has paralyzed its harvest of sunflower? I'm surprised. Model35mech May 2022 #11

Unattended crops make for a bad harvest. blogslug May 2022 #12

Maybe, but it literally says the HARVEST WAS INTERRUPTED. Model35mech May 2022 #13

You can't harvest what hasn't been planted muriel_volestrangler May 2022 #15

No kidding Model35mech May 2022 #16

The sunflower oil harvest is interrupted because the silos are being bombed, the oil extractors ... Donkees May 2022 #18

Safflower is a great replacement. WarGamer May 2022 #19