Prepping fats

[The ExplorerParticipant]

Prepping fats is the hardest aspect of food storage for me. I love to bake, and I feel like having comfort food is important as a morale booster. I have started adapting my recipes to utilize “storage” foods, but so many of them call for vegetable oil. Can anyone help by advising if there is a good way to keep vegetable oil so it doesn’t go rancid? Thanks!

[namelusParticipant]

Clarified butter or ghee canned lasts a long time.  As for fat we always have fresh pig lard we render and make  soap,suet, grease for cooking.

 

The favorite butter alternative here is bacon fat from frying with some soya sauce, Worcester sauce and fresh scallion on bread.. Yeah heart surgeons night mare. Average day is 7 k in calories burned just working farm.

 

All oils go rancid best controls are low o2 and cool temperatures with no light.

[Crow BarKeymaster]

I have read about some people growing sunflowers, then “cold” pressing them for the oil.

[namelusParticipant]

Problem is sun…. this year zero ripened except the seed plants in greenhouse. Outside ones went bad and birds ate.

 

That press  better be a multi ton steel one as not a lot of oil from seeds without heated press steel and hydraulic motors.

[WhirlibirdParticipant]

Unless you are growing ‘black’ oil sunflowers, you are wasting resources and time.

The seed sunflowers use/waste more resources to grow the big heads, the tall stalk, etc.

Start saving your bacon grease (oil) and putting back olive oil. Crisco also has a decent “lifespan”.

Lard is another way to store “oil”, especially if you can keep it cool.

[OldMt WomanParticipant]

We are at high altitude with a basement that is cool to COLD year ’round. Barely above freezing in winter….so that’s an advantage a lot of folks don’t have.  I’ve had great luck with olive oil….in small bottles so there isn’t a lot of time exposed to air.  We have some Crisco, which seems to survive anything.  No longer made from cotton seed pressing….  We have lard stored also.  Other oils we just rotate and have never had any of them rancid.  Do not eat rancid oils….they are toxic.

OldMtWoman

[The ExplorerParticipant]

Thanks to all of you for the advice. Off to a good start!

[Crow BarKeymaster]

How to Make Cold-Press Oil

https://www.ehow.com/how_8281740_make-coldpress-oil.html

[Anonymous]

Nobody has a basement where I live. Can you store olive oil in a refrigerator? Can you freeze olive oil and the other fats mentioned?

[TolikParticipant]

Dunno , all I know , is that they have pulled up olive oil from Roman shipwrecks , that was still edible ……….after being on the ocean floor for 2000 years .

[namelusParticipant]

Lard sealed pork….. look at the urn tops and the water sealing caps…. Super useful in no refrigerator times.

[OldMt WomanParticipant]

Yes, you can keep any fats in the freezer, if you have the room.  But….I wouldn’t put glass bottles of oil in freezer.  Not sure if they will even freeze solid but don’t chance it.  We have kept olive oil in the refrigerator tho.  That works but I’ve heard it’s not pure olive oil if it gets clumps in it.  Meh, clumps go away when you set it out at room temperature.

It’s air that does the damage too.  Don’t let air or light touch your oils.

OldMtWoman

[OldMt WomanParticipant]

Neat video,Namelus.  Lots of ways around no electrical.  Might not last as long …but sealed from light and excessive heat, it all helps.  Dratted rodents can’t get into that crockery!

OldMtWoman

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by  OldMt Woman.

[Crow BarKeymaster]

During the winter, sometimes the pantry gets cold enough the oils become solids.

in this post I rendered pork fat, and then cooked pork chops in the lard, poured it all into a canning jar, sealed it. Put it in the pantry for a month, reheated it and the chops were fantastic!

Rendering fat and pork confit

[WhirlibirdParticipant]

[William WallaceParticipant]

this man is very good he has good recipes I really like how he talks and cooks! it’s a pity after such cooking dishes wash for a long time)))

• This reply was modified 3 days, 21 hours ago by  William Wallace.
• This reply was modified 3 days, 21 hours ago by  William Wallace.

[Schnee WitchenParticipant]

I have read that extra virgin coconut oil, which can be kept w/o refrigeration, does NOT go rancid. I have some from 8 years ago and it is as good as the day I bought it.

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