Page 6 | No Sunflower /Vegetable oil / tomatoes in shops...!!

earsup · 2022-04-06T21:36:55+00:00

We have bought 4 bottles a few weeks ago...yesterday and today went to 5 different supermarkets to get bits....and no oils at all...just some expensive Olive oil left on shelves....also no tomatoes for a few days now....!

Lottie4 · 07/04/2022 11:30

I use oils for frying onions/stir frys/frying eggs

stuntbubbles · 07/04/2022 11:31

@AfterSchoolWorry

Curious to know, what do people use sunflower oil for these days?

I know it was used to make chips/fried food but I thought that practice had died out in domestic settings!?

I know commercial caterers use seed oils, but I mean at home!?

Frying eggs, frying onions and garlic, frying soffritto, sometimes to dilute the strong olive oil taste when making mayonnaise or dressing a salad, greasing a pan, in cakes…

BarbaraofSeville · 07/04/2022 11:36

@AfterSchoolWorry

Also, vegetable oil middle class?

What now?

The middle classes tend to follow health trends. Seed oils are so unhealthy, I can't see that.

But vegetable oil is usually rapeseed oil, which is one of the healthier oils (lower saturated fat, higher in omega 3 and 6). It is also better for frying than olive oil due to the higher smoke point.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/jun/12/rise-of-rapeseed-oil

MrsSkylerWhite · 07/04/2022 11:36

Cherrysoup

ChazzaGirl
Oh fuck off with your panic buying nonsense. Seriously, I’ve tried to be a well behaved member of this online community but I’m getting really pissed off with this shite.”

Absolutely agree”

Yep. Woman tutting at a lady and young man buying whole trays of baked beans and sausages, soup, tinned fruit and sardines in Lidl the other day. They paid, lady turned round and told moaning Minnie they were for the food bank.

I couldn’t help laughing.

knittingaddict · 07/04/2022 11:37

@frasersmummy

This thread is so middle class..its made me laugh.. Tomatoes, fee range eggs, vegetable oils and flour.. not to mention the waitrose squash

Yeah ..lifes staples right there..we are all gonna starve

Erm, none of those things are middle class.

I was bought up on a council estate and we had all of those 50 years ago. I'm pretty sure my very working class grandparents kept chickens too.

What do you think working class people eat? Gruel?

AfterSchoolWorry · 07/04/2022 11:37

Oh ok, I don't fry anything so I was trying to picture it !

MrsSkylerWhite · 07/04/2022 11:41

What’s middle class about free range eggs? Working class people are allowed to care about animal welfare too.
Tomatoes and flour? Seriously?

knittingaddict · 07/04/2022 11:42

I use vegetable oil for frying eggs. I think that's all I use it for. I tried rape seed oli, but didn't like the taste. I use lots of olive oil - the refined one for cooking mostly, and probably buy a large bottle every few months. I don't know how I would use a bottle a week.

I either read something or saw it on the tv about the health advantages of various fats. Vegetable oils really aren't that good for you.

RampantIvy · 07/04/2022 11:42

@AfterSchoolWorry

Oh ok, I don't fry anything so I was trying to picture it !

Not even to start off a bolognese sauce, casserole, curry or do a stir fry fry?

AfterSchoolWorry · 07/04/2022 11:44

@BarbaraofSeville

I think the idea that industrial seed oils are healthy has been debunked now.

If you Google 'seed oil science' you can source some quality science (as well as some shit)

knittingaddict · 07/04/2022 11:44

@AfterSchoolWorry

Oh ok, I don't fry anything so I was trying to picture it !

Nothing?

Onions and garlic for a chilli, vegetables and meat for a stir fry, meat in a stew?

DelilahBucket · 07/04/2022 11:45

The veg/salad issue is due to strikes. Oils due to the war. Other products may end up becoming short in supply too as they use sunflower oil and they are having to quickly adapt recipes and actually manage to get hold of other oil to use. We will just have to adapt.

knittingaddict · 07/04/2022 11:45

Snap RampantIvy.

I honestly didn't see your post before writing mine.

GeoffLynton · 07/04/2022 11:46

This thread is bonkers.

I can't work out if I'm out-of-touch middle class for buying vegetable oil, or terribly declasse for frying things

Krustykrabpizza · 07/04/2022 11:46

I don't know about you but I don't fry the onions or garlic when cooking those things. Fried onions are what you put on burgers and hot dogs. If your onions look like that in a bolognese you're doing it wrong.

I don't use sunflower oil for anything but I don't fry food at home. Use olive oil for cooking.

AfterSchoolWorry · 07/04/2022 11:46

@RampantIvy

👀

No! I don't cook much! As little as possible.

knittingaddict · 07/04/2022 11:47

@GeoffLynton

This thread is bonkers.

I can't work out if I'm out-of-touch middle class for buying vegetable oil, or terribly declasse for frying things

Probably both.

I do agree, some bonkers posts on here.

RosieRoww · 07/04/2022 11:48

You can get a lard instead and plant your own tomatoes.

And thank to people like you who are panic buyers that shelf's are empty.;)

knittingaddict · 07/04/2022 11:50

@Krustykrabpizza

I don't know about you but I don't fry the onions or garlic when cooking those things. Fried onions are what you put on burgers and hot dogs. If your onions look like that in a bolognese you're doing it wrong.

I don't use sunflower oil for anything but I don't fry food at home. Use olive oil for cooking.

Do you cook much?

Frying onions for a dish like chilli or a bolognese is about softening the onions etc and also sweetening the flavour. You don't brown them.

stuntbubbles · 07/04/2022 11:53

@Krustykrabpizza

I don't know about you but I don't fry the onions or garlic when cooking those things. Fried onions are what you put on burgers and hot dogs. If your onions look like that in a bolognese you're doing it wrong.

I don't use sunflower oil for anything but I don't fry food at home. Use olive oil for cooking.

Sauté, then. You don’t start off your cooking with sautéing onions, sofrito, mirepoix? Even if you do so with olive oil surely you get the concept some people do it with vegetable oil instead.

Krustykrabpizza · 07/04/2022 11:54

Exactly, it's called sweating. Not frying. And can be done in olive oil as it doesn't require a high temperature, whereas frying does require a high temperature and a different kind of oil. That is what pp meant when she said she didn't fry things at home.

Krustykrabpizza · 07/04/2022 11:56

Of course I get the concept, I was responding to the suprise at pp not frying things. I occasionally fry eggs but I use butter for that.

stuntbubbles · 07/04/2022 11:57

No! That pp literally meant she didn’t cook! I think picking up the use of the word “frying” vs “sweating” and pretending to be baffled that anyone would do such a thing completely derails the thread and is more bonkers than calling tomatoes middle class.

MrsPnut · 07/04/2022 12:06

@frasersmummy @TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross Apple and Mango squash is hardly middle class, and as a PP pointed out, it is one of the few that doesn't contain any sweeteners. I refuse to buy anything that contains sweeteners as they taste disgusting.

Glad it gave you a laugh though, so long as it was a working class laugh - wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong impression about you.

knittingaddict · 07/04/2022 12:16

@Krustykrabpizza

Exactly, it's called sweating. Not frying. And can be done in olive oil as it doesn't require a high temperature, whereas frying does require a high temperature and a different kind of oil. That is what pp meant when she said she didn't fry things at home.

The person who said they didn't fry said that they didn't really cook, so it's not a question of frying versus sweating.

Many recipes use fry instead of sweat. Are they wrong?