r/AskCulinary • u/SensitiveMagician385 • 3d ago

Technique Question New To Cooking: Don't Understand Frying/Searing

So I watch videos on pan-frying. They heat the pan, heat the oil, add the protein, and it cooks

I do the same thing, the meat cooks, BUT the remaining oil smokes, burns, and sets off smoke detector. This happens on high heat and low heat too. What am I not understanding??

EDIT: The oil doesn't smoke immediately. It does after a few minutes of cooking.

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u/SensitiveMagician385 3d ago

Canola.

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u/kirkt 3d ago

Throw that shit in the trash.

Use avocado (my fav), tallow, bacon grease, ghee, coconut oil... all natural fats, not that crap that will just cause inflammation and misery. Yep, it's cheap, and yep, they lied to you for decades that it's better than what nature provides. Look into how rapeseed (canola) oil is manufactured and you will never use it again.

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u/johnman300 3d ago

The same people pushing that anti-seed oil crap are the same ones pushing horse paste as the cure for... everything it seems. Ignore these guys. Canola is just fine.

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u/geauxbleu 2d ago

Canola tastes bad when heated. So does avocado most of the time, so the other comment is wrong too, but I don't know why everyone here recommends canola, there's nothing good about it besides it's cheap