When it comes to cooking oils, not all of them are created equal. While there is such a thing as “unhealthy cooking oils”, cooking oils and fats in general get a bad reputation. Many people believe that consuming fat is bad so cooking with oil has been demonized. In other cases, some people avoid cooking with nature-based oils altogether because they’ve been talked into thinking that saturated fats are bad. This is why there are so many “low-calorie” alternatives to fats available these days which are full of toxic, man-made chemicals. These include: non-stick cooking sprays, margarine, plant-based buttery spreads, and vegetable shortening. When I was growing up, my…
