which fat do you use with your Yorkshire puddings and why?

[everpuzzled]

I use olive oil and am just wondering if thats the best? Have tried vegetable oil in the past but felt like they left a fatty flavour.

Beef dripping, prefer it to lard, olive oil or lard.

I would use something which is essentially flavourless, olive oil would be too pervasive I think, vegetable is a bit rank. Something like rapeseed oil or groundnut oil I think.

Olive oil doesn't get as hot as other fats, and heat is important for yorkies.

better off with groundnut/dripping etc

Yes, you have got to get it smoking hot.

10 mins in an oven on the highest setting with just the oil in, before you put the batter in.

lard because it can get so hot - watch your hands though when you take the tin out!

Yes, don't drop the bloody thing

Dripping. Olive oil would be my last choice because it taste of olives rather than tasting of dripping and it can't take the heat. I like a fatty flavour in my Yorkshires.