Roast potatoes - what fat to use?

[TracyK]

goose? olive? or just lard?

Goose definitely, lard poor second. Wouldn't use olive personally - but that's just preference.

i just use olive oil. but goose fat is meant to be yum scrum

we use goose for christmas.
olive oil usually.

DH swears by goose fat but I like olive ol ust as much.

Olive oil - healthy so can over indulge without the guilt

Makes them very very crispy and scrummy

On another thread someone said olive oil turns carcinogenic when heated to the heat needed to make roasties which has me a bit

i think that olive oil cancer thing is a bit of a myth.

i am sure someone will be along in a minute with a link to some scary scientific article...

well i have always done my roast potatoes in olive oil and i'm still standing

WHAT? I've never heard that about olive oil?

Usually use goose fat, but have a veggie coming for lunch, so will be olive this year.

goose or duck fat

I would love to say goose fat as it seems rather fashionable but I use half butter and half white vegetable fat. I looked at tins and jars of goos fat in the supermarket and they seemed to cost £1.99 - I thought that was rather silly. I would rather spend the £1.99 on a few ounces of cubed pancetta and a few roasted chestnuts to toss through the Brussels sprouts. Olive oil is not ideal for roast potatoes imho.

duck - just personal preference

if you need something veggie, I think sunflower oil does better roasties that olive oil (and is safe to heat to higher temps)

If you don't want to use goose or duck fat then butter and sunflower oil mixed is best and I personally don't like olive oil on roasties.

Hmmm. Maybe I'll use a mix of olive and sunflower then.

according to heston blumenthal and his recipe for perfect roasties it should be olive oil. Especially if you have veggies at the meal.

Goose or duck. Definitely not olive oil which should not be cooked at high temperatures.

I usually use olive oil but have bought some goose fat to try this time.

I THINK we usually use the fat from the turkey?? (pregnancy brain making me struggle to remember!)

goose or lard