Low key for real
Discussion
Incredibly toxic, produced at ungodly temperatures results in the toxicity. Big pharma/the manβs way of keeping people fat/stupid/beta
#fixthefoodfirst
I just surveyed my fridge. Everything has soybean oil
Yup let the purge begin
What the hell is left?
This is why I make so much stuff from scratch π
No more Taco Bell!!! π
I feel your pain. Even telling myself that their tacos are horse meat has not stopped my consumption of this hell mash. They tell you itβs south of the border right there in the marketing; weβre talking downtown business section of hell!
Everything is dehydrated when it arrives like astronaut food at Taco Bell π
#fixthefoodfirst
The outside of the grocery store and not much else
Soy is very hard to avoid in processed foods. Soy lecithin must be the cheapest emulsifier available. It is in most products requiring stabilizing.
You think thatβs badβ¦ check out baby formula sometime
I use seed oils all the time.
I use them as a substitute 2stroke oil when Iβm out, I use them to clean metal parts and rust proof them.
Most of them will polymerize over time making a rain resistant coating for canvas and wood.
But eat them? What, are you nutz?
LOL. I know you arenβt even joking.
Nopeπ
Being ironic, yes. Joking, no.
Mix mineral oil with seed oil
And submerge a canvas drop cloth in it, let it dry for a month in the sun during summer, and by fall youβll have a natural waterproof tarp.
Works best with flax seed oil (aka linseed)
Based
I was introduced to the usefulness of linseed oil as a building material (for sealing clay floors). It is so very cool we can use something like that for waterproofing
I use linseed oil all the time. It polymerizes in like 4 days. I use it on all the wood stuff I make.
Side note, mix linseed oil with diatomaceous earth, set it aside and turn it twice a week, after a month there will be a hard mass at the bottom, and the oil will have turned clear. That oil polymerizes in 24 hours.
I havenβt really bought into the βseed oils badβ argument yet. I only eat the cold pressed stuff, and not a lot of it, but Iβm not sure if the hydrogenated stuff is really the devil people make it out to be. I lean toward itβs just easier to get overweight on such a calorie dense food. If you know of any well made studies that indicate otherwise Iβm up for education. Linseed oil is excellent on wood and not too bad in oatmealπ. Lac flakes are really fun with wood finishing.
Not much to βbuy intoβ itβs simple facts that oils produced at ungodly temperatures results in toxicity and our cells literally cannot expel the filth for years.
Read more/look into who makes these oils
#fixthefoodfirst
He said he used cold pressed
Ok, I went to the store. The only bread I could find without soy oil was Ezekiel bread. Then got some avocado mayonnaise and half and half to replace my coffee creamer. π€
Badass. Health first as a priority, legit moves πͺ
#fixingthefood
Ezekiel bread is the bomb.
Do I just put it in the fridge?
Bread keeps best long term in freezer. Short term at room temp. Fridge bread goes stale faster.
Truth! I always made fun of my in-laws for doing it when I first got with my wife, now Iβm freezing every loaf I get from the farmers market π
Cold pressed is best.
These are awesome uses for seed oils I fully support! I especially like using natural, edible substances to treat things I touch all the time like metal and wood, specifically because I trust it enough to even eat it.
I probably wouldnβt use conventional vegetable oil for anything I actually did touch, let alone eat. I like the thing Rev.Hodl did where he immersed a miner in it π
Honestly the βitβs engine oilβ thing I keep hearing sounds to me exactly like βivermectin is horse dewormer.β Sure it is, but itβs also actually fine for human beings.
Folks disagree π€·π»ββοΈ but unless they also literally believe coconuts, olives, and sunflower seeds are toxic, I think they are being inconsistent.
Yeah it takes over 7 years for it to be processed and expelled from your cells
#fixthefoodfirst
ππ once you learn about themβ¦ you canβt unlearn it
I think the issue is a little more nuanced than many people think, and there are many factors to begin with.
Most available seed oils are chemically extracted and treated. This is a messy process that leaves traces of toxic chemicals behind.
Some seeds treated this way are not even naturally useful as food, like cottonseeds.
Many seeds raised for oil are GMO which is usually done so crops can survive insane doses of herbicides, which again come through in the oil and are so bad for you.
But other seeds which are naturally food, raised without sprays, and their oils are MECHANICALLY extracted, have been part of traditional diets for hundreds or thousands of years.
I disagree with those who call THESE oils poisons. In my experience they do tend to be the same people who believe all plant foods to be bad for you.
And yet there is still the point that animal-based oils may be better for you than plant-based oils.
This doesnβt mean wholesome seed oils are BAD, just that animal oils may be better.
Furthermore, many people use a plant oil to cook at far too high a heat for it. Understanding smoke points is key. Olive oil should never be used to cook food, but coconut or sunflower oils are high heat oils and just fine. Most animal fats are good for high heat cooking (though for best results, butter should be clarified = turned into ghee)
What do I do?
Cook almost everything in butter or bacon fat and RARELY use expeller-pressed high-oleic organic sunflower oil.
TLDR if you would eat a seed as food I donβt think thereβs a problem using the oil as long as it was mechanically extracted.
Nostr gonna hate me now lol
As someone who's been cooking my entire life, I definitely agree with this take. All of the nasty, chemically processed seed oils are definitely not that good for you. But anything that you would naturally eat as a food anyway, as long as it's mechanically extracted, like you mentioned above, is just fine.
As with most things, there is usually some form of nuance that memes lose. π
Seed oils are motor oils we were convinced were safe for humans to consumeβ¦
They are pretty much in everything in the grocery storeβ¦
Basically all vegetable oils are shit. They were orignially machine oils made from crop waste. They have to be leeched & dissolved out with acetone & bleached to eliminate the stink. They really only started being added to foods as a form of quality shrinkflation during the 70s. And govt lobbying & corp marketing worked to frame them as healthy alternatives.
Canola oil (rapeseed oil)
Soybean oil
Corn oil
Sunflower oil
Safflower oil
Sesame oil
Grapeseed oil
Cottonseed oil
Palm kernal oil
Etc
The possible exceptions are:
Coconut oil
Avocado oil
& maybe "first cold press" extra virgin olive oil (tastes like shit IMO)
Hard to know if you're really getting what it says on the label with most olive oil (you're probably not). Avocado oil likely suffers from similar issues.
Best oils to cook with:
Beef tallow
Duck fat
Lard (bacon grease)
Real butter
Coconut oil
ghee (clarified butter) is great too