Carotino oil
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Art_Vandelay

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212 months

Thursday 28th January 2010
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Any body else use it? I bought it a couple of years back to try and have since just been using it now and then in place of other oils.

Website here http://www.carotino.co.uk/uk/index.htm

I'm no chef, but I like to use it with my steaks.

soad

34,549 posts

204 months

Thursday 28th January 2010
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Thanks for the heads up - not heard of it before. Normally stick with olive oil for cooking.

paulmurr

4,203 posts

240 months

Thursday 28th January 2010
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I use this for frying at the moment, you can get it in tesco. It's horrible in dressings but fine for most other uses.

pacman1

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221 months

Thursday 28th January 2010
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I bought some of this a while back, only because it was 2 for1 in the supermarket as they couldn't shift it. It looked a funky colour in its trendy bottle and it were cheap, but I was underwhelmed! Turns out the red colour is from a bit of palm oil, and the rest, canola oil is actually a high yield rapeseed oil. Pleased I didn't pay full whack.
No taste to it really and a pretty low smoking point to boot!
Grapeseed oil I find the best for cooking, it has a high smoke point so doesn't stink the kitchen out when you need a really hot pan. But the price has gone through the roof recently, making it almost as expensive as some olive oils now.
Of the olive oils I find Carapelli has a lovely taste and is reasonably priced. When on offer, I buy loads of it.

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Art_Vandelay

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Thursday 28th January 2010
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As mentioned, I'm no expert on the subject, I just figured if the health benefits were accurate I'd give it a shot hehe

I didn't pay a lot of money for it and found that it is lasting well. Might have to try some of these fancier oils and see if they make that much of a difference (personally I think my palate is ruined through eating too much cardboard at college)

pacman1

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Thursday 28th January 2010
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Art_Vandelay said:
As mentioned, I'm no expert on the subject, I just figured if the health benefits were accurate I'd give it a shot hehe
I think the health benefits are akin to producers slapping OMEGA 3!!! on anything vaguely fishy! biggrin

Art_Vandelay

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Thursday 28th January 2010
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pacman1 said:
I think the health benefits are akin to producers slapping OMEGA 3!!! on anything vaguely fishy! biggrin
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pacman1

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221 months

Thursday 28th January 2010
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eeeeuwwwww!

pacman1

7,324 posts

221 months

Friday 29th January 2010
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The marketing is certainly seductive, but I think it's no more than a crafty way of trying to 'sell sand to the Arabs'.

eta, I don't think the ingredients warrant a premium price.

Edited by pacman1 on Friday 29th January 15:46