I get that there is probably a more complex answer in reality, and probably an objective ranking, but I’m interested in what people’s perceptions are.

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I avoid them if at all possible, including olive oil because it’s often mixed with seed oils.

If I’m eating at a restaurant I can’t control it and roll the dice, but at home I cook using tallow, lard, butter

My personal philosophy is if I can’t make it myself, at least once, I don’t want to eat it. So no processed foods at all. I’ve churned butter, I’ve rendered lard, but I can’t make seed oils at home.

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Why can’t you make seed oils at home?

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Why can’t you make seed oils at home?

Mix every 1/4 cup (59 g) of sesame seeds with 1 cup (237 mL) of oil. Pour your sesame seeds inside a medium or large pot. Then, pour in a cooking oil of your choice, based on the amount of sesame seeds you are using.

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Olive oil can be made at home by crushing fresh olives, similar to peanut oil, and sunflower oil, and probably several other plant oils I haven’t looked up.

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Well yeah, but the oils separate and you can skim off the sesame oil, then filter the seed fragments out. Is it just the hassle? That’s understandable, but I’ve made butter and that’s a hassle too.

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Got any good salad dressing recipes with lard?

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You got my upvote not because I like lard but because you’re getting downvoted for a personal culinary preference.

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Seed oils are probably bad for you but the rest are either good or neutral. Olive or avocado oil is probably at the top but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with butter either

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Seed oils are definitely better for you than the alternatives, especially butter.

I love butter: but it’s absolutely worse for you than canola oil.

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What do you base that on?

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The preponderance of evidence. Most of which is in other comments here already.

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I was in a post on reddit sometime when we all got lectured about how every vegetable oil sucks and it’s better to eat lard or duck fat or tallow. “You clearly don’t know about lipids”. Haven’t figured out of that’s true or not but I’d definitely rather use butter than margarine.

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Veggie oils are totally fine and animal fats, while tasty, are definitely worse for you.

I still use butter in cookies though.

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Fwiw, I’m pretty convinced that the anti-seed oil crowd is approximately as grounded in science as the anti-vaccine crowd - that is to say, not at all.

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Im not a doctor, but trained in (doing and reading) science. I’ve read up on this and can pretty confidently say you’re right.

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