Cooking And Frying Oils-how do They Affect Your Health?

Millions of users around the world use healthy cooking oil for frying and food preparation. There are different methods to cook food like frying, grilling, roasting, baking, etc. Out of these, frying has turned out to be the least healthy as the food absorbs all the oil in comparison to the other modes of cooking, where oil is definitely used but it is not absorbed. This does not mean food should not be fried; it depends on frying habits.

Foods cooked or fried with excess or unhealthy oil is certainly not good for health, fats that are not good for health are saturated and trans fats and the good ones are monosaturated and polysaturated ones, these fats decrease the risk of disease. Healthy Oil for frying includes oils such as canola, sunflower, olive and corn, while the bad ones include palm, kernel, cocoa butter, margarine and shortening.

Cooking oil is mostly glycerol esters or fatty acids; these can be derived from animals and plants. Oil is mostly used as a heat transfer platform to cook food. While cooking or frying, oil is heated to a certain temperature that causes a reaction like oxidation, hydrolysis, polymerisation, etc. The products that are degraded include fatty acids, triglycerides, etc, if cooking oil is heated again and again its colour will change and it will give rise to an unpleasant odour as it oxidises.

If cooking oil for frying is used for an increased duration, it will cause a lot of degradation and the toxicity of this will increase as well. There are so millions of hotels, restaurants, and food joints around the world. It is imperative that the food industry should choose cooking oil of good quality and stability, use appropriate equipment, select the most appropriate temperature for frying or cooking food, if it is used once it should be filtered to remove food particles, if the it is reused number of times, then it should be replaced.

Let's talk about trans fatty acids in brief, these fatty acids are produced if the oil is fried repeatedly, it will come from partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Tran's fatty acids decrease good cholesterol (HDL) that helps to prevent blockage of arteries and increases bad cholesterol (LDL) that causes blockage of arteries. Cooking oil with high volumes of Trans fatty acids increase the risk of diabetes, coronary heart disease, gall stones, obesity.

What should be done to avoid the consumption of these oils; consumption of cooking oils for frying should be reduced, whilst other cooking methods should be used like boiling, steaming, roasting, stir frying, etc. Tran's fats are found in the following products like hydrogenated vegetable, partially hydrogenated vegetable, refined vegetable oil, butter, margarine and shortening.

Talking about pressure frying, foods like chicken tastes good when it is pressure fried in a pressure fryer as they contain lesser number of fats, in comparison to open fried foods. These pressure fryers consume less amount of cooking oil than open fryers and they cook faster at lower temperatures causing lesser number of Tran's fatty acids with low absorption.

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The Stir Frying Cooking Method

Oriental cuisine is one of the most popular ethnic cuisines in America. You can easily incorporate a few basic Asian cooking methods with wild game for unbelievably great results. One of the basic Asian cooking methods is stir frying. It is very simple, dry-heat cooking method, and it works wonders with all game meat. Some like to stir fry in camps because it is a very fast method, and they can keep the meat fresh for late arriving hunters.

They won't start cooking until they are all cleaned up and eating their soup or salad. They also like this cooking method because it allows them to spend more time on camp chores or just relaxing by the fire. Stir frying is very different from the long, slow cooking of a Dutch oven. The majority is spent in preparation, with just 5 to 10 minutes of actual cooking time. The key tool of stir frying is a wok - a round, high sided pan, but a good blue steel saute pan, or a cast iron skillet well do the job just as well. The wok is designed to cook food fast, and the heart carries up the sides, giving you a lot of cooking surface to use. This cooking method works well on propane or over hot fire.

The ingredients are endless. You can stir fry quail, pheasant, chukar, rabbit, venison, boar, and much more. The essentials fro stir frying are; a wok, high heat, peanut oil or sesame oil, thin meat sliced across the grain, making sure to use tender cuts, (use these seasoning rations; 1 part fresh chopped ginger, 2 parts fresh chopped garlic, 3 parts chopped green onion), lay the meat in the pan away from you, so as not to splash with hot oil, don't overload the pan, prepare as close to service time as possible, remove the meat from the pan when making the sauce, brown the meat (caramelize) for flavor and color, serve with ,or over noodles, rice, spaghetti squash, or shredded cabbage.

The most common stir frying mistake is to overfill the wok or pan. You should only try to prepare two to four portions at a time. Although the method is very quick, too much food is the pan powers the temperature and extends the cooking time, making a poor, limp product that doesn't have flavor or texture that you want.

When preparing for more than four people, stir frying the meat and vegetables in small batches, then remove and serve them, on the side. Then prepare the sauce. When the hunters are ready to eat, just add everything back into the sauce and bring to a boil. Organizing is essential when cooking. Have everything in its place and ready to go, once you start cooking, you can't be looking for something in the kitchen box. You can't stop cooking and peel you onions or garlic. You can't stop cooking for chopping you other ingredients. Prepare all the ingredients in advance and place the4m near the stove before you start the stir frying. Measure all the oils, sauces to be used and mix the sauce before you start the stir fry.

Happy cooking and please continue cooking.

Hi, I'm Alfred I'm an article writer since I was in High School. My favorite topic is about cooking, but when Stir Fry Recipe was become popular, all of my topic now was for stir fry recipe sauce . Sometimes I made my own recipe of stir fry and I post it in some sites on the web. I hope that you will like my recipe.

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