Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Different use cases.

  Fats that are solid ( or at least not kept liquid) are not directly comparable to oils. They fulfill a different function in baked goods. In particular, pie crust with vegetable oil would fail totally. It wouldn’t hold up.

  Mind you, if you don’t object to hydrogenated oils, they can do the job. Yay margarine? But you can’t just dump 10 grams of canola into your biscuits and expect the results to look, taste, or feel like a biscuit. You’d get something, but it wouldn’t be the same.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Palm oil doesn’t tase good at all so you can just as well use margarine made from sunflower or canola oil.

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s pretty tasteless overall.

      And when it comes right down to it, hydrogenated oils are their own nightmare. There’s really no perfect choices for every person in every situation.

      Like, lard and tallow work even better than butter in some applications, including some desserts. But then you run into the health side of things and vegetarians aren’t going to use them.

      I personally don’t like palm oil either. I find it unpleasant for mouth feel. I’m just saying that it fills a role that other things don’t, and does it in a way that’s a different set of problems.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You mean like palm oil?

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