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Why does the food pantry place always insist on giving me these massive bottles of vegetable oil? I mean, 48 oz worth of vegetable oil is ridiculous. Who uses that much oil? Why do they even sell them this size? I have never in my life been able to use the entire bottle before it expires. Seriously, I'm doing good to use an entire 6.2 oz bottle of sesame seed oil in an entire month, and I actually like the taste of that. Who the fuck can possibly use 48 oz of vegetable oil in less than a year? What are they using it for? Are they using it for sex lube? Cuz that's the only thing I can think of to explain it. I can't even begin to fathom what you would need that much vegetable oil for.

The oil in question:

I literally never ask for it, and they just give it to me anyway. I'm too polite to refuse it. Getting better at telling them no to things they give me that I have no use for or can't stand, but it's a work in progress.

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$mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)$

From:

mdlbear

In our household it's used for deep frying, lubricating baking pans, and Chinese stir-fry.

From:

fayanora

I don't bake or deep fry at all, and for stir fry I usually use butter, or sesame seed oil if I have it. I generally detest cooking with oil because most cooking oils taste absolutely horrible to me, and even with the ones that do taste good, the way they interact with the food being cooked tends to cause all kinds of horrible weird texture problems that I just can't tolerate.

For a specific example, I cannot stand the taste or texture of eggs cooked in any kind of oil. Eggs are barely edible to begin with unless scrambled, and scrambling eggs in oil makes them absolutely vile. The only fried whole eggs I can eat are fried in butter.

If I'm frying something, I will almost always use butter because it actually tastes good, and the textures that result from it are tolerable to me. Oils, though? Nope. Bad flavors, bad textures, and they make everything way too greasy. The one exception being sesame seed oil. I used to have a second exception of hot chili oil, but I have IBS and cannot do that anymore.