Rapeseed oil - how can anyone cook with it - fish smell

[ScottishScouser]

Please tell me it’s not just me. Every time I accidentally buy rapeseed oil (or rather DH does) the house ends up stinking of fish. The last time he picked up veg oil and didn’t check to see if it was taper not.

crisp and dry
tescos own
sainsburys own

I can’t believe people actually don’t mind the smell.

Here is a serving of fried onions with an added aroma of fish!

I think for some people the smell of rapeseed oil is offensive. Maybe it is genetic?

I can't stand the smell or taste of the stuff and always use light olive oil.

It is a thing:
“The characterization of the volatile compounds responsible for the fishy odor is a key industrial issue.”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejlt.201500088#:~:text=Rapeseed%20oil%20is%20edible%20oil,characterized%20by%20a%20fishy%20odor.

“Sensory studies by seven to nine trained judges, using a linear scale, indicated that rapeseed oil (RSO) heated to 190C and subsequently smelled at 50C was significantly stronger in odor than sunflower, corn and safflower oils treated with the same heating conditions.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0315546378731858

Apparently it’s to do with the breakdown of omega 3 fatty acids at high temperatures.

I do. What is the connection?

Yes I think it's gross.

My mum fried me an egg and I instantly clocked it had been cooked in a new and unpleasant tasting oil.

Have avoided it since. Bleurgh.

Yes, I was saying that we don't call it rapeseed, but canola oil.

I have never heard of rapeseed referred to here at all.

How are people still using these nasty seed oils?

Cook with lard or butter instead.

What vegetable oil isn't mass produced?!

It's called Canola in North America, rapeseed in other English speaking countries.

It was a long time ago that I looked it up, but think it's to do with having a higher number of taste buds, so a finer, more defined sense of taste. It was termed Supertaster.

Most people have a regular amount, so can only taste sweetener as sweet without the nasty aftertaste.

Some people have fewer taste buds, and consequently can eat most things. Luckily my husband seems to fall into this category, so he happily polishes off anything I can't/ won't eat.

Just to throw a spanner in the works, I find rapeseed oil pretty flavourless but can taste artificial sweeteners in anything.

I am a non ptc taster however
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC_tasting

It's not just you. I hate it and find it smells of fish no matter how new it is. Maybe some people perceive it differently

Yes / can't bear them

I also hate sunflower oil and find it has a similar horrible taste for me

Ive never noticed it smelling of fish but I cant stand the stuff, it has a horrible taste and smell to my mind

So its EVOO and sunflower oil only

And I dont take notice of this myth that you cant roast or fry with EVOO, Im increasingly using it for everything

Yes to artificial sweetner, how interesting

I wont have anything with sweeteners in them.

I buy veg oil from Tesco and it is rapeseed oil - that's the ingredients

This is interesting.

I have always suggested I have fine taste 😂

Yeah I find it smells/tastes fishy too, eggs fried in it are gross! I only use olive oil.
I also find artificial sweetener bitter and hate coriander and celery (also bitter).

I have the same issue and with vegetable oil. The smell makes me gag. Olive oil only here.

There is a difference between rapeseed and canola oil. Canola was created by cross-breeding rapeseed, and doesn’t have the glucosinolates and erucic acid.

“Not all oils are created equal. Mass-produced oil is extracted from rapeseed using heat – and solvents – which kickstarts the degradation process. With cold-pressed oil, nothing is added or taken away so you get a completely natural product.”

https://food-mag.co.uk/features/myth-busters/what-the-rapeseed-oil-producer-wishes-you-knew/

I'm allergic to rapeseed pollen. I discovered this when the farmer planted the field next to our house with it !

I think I'm allergic to the oil too. I analysis check its not in the oil I buy.

That's still mass-produced, it's not like he's only making 10 bottles a year, it's just a different method. Almost all the rapeseed oil sold in Ireland is produced the same way, including the huge quantities sold in Lidl and Aldi.

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There is a difference between cold pressed and mass produced oil.

Mass produced just means produced en masse.

The method is a different kettle of fish(y smelling oil)