Went shopping today. needed corn oil. The only brand available was Goya

[Paper Roses]

What has happened top the house brands and some of the national brads. Wesson : vegetable oil, same with others. I am used to the flavor and workability of corn oil, what has happened to the other brands? House brand was there but only in the gigunda bottle. What am I missing?
Everything was vegetable oil or peanut oil. Next section over was the olive No problem there.

[MajorChode]

1. I've pretty much standardized on olive oil

I keep light olive oil for most cooking and extra virgin for salads. Although occassionally I want for something else, I've found I can do about 99% of what I need with olive oil.

[Paper Roses]

2. I always keep olive oil on hand to but sometimes it is a waste for the current project

Most of the bottles, other than the olive oil were marked vegetable oil. I just thought it was curious. Sometimes I think olive oil is too strong for the purpose I need.

[MajorChode]

4. That's what light olive oil is for

Extra light olive oil is very light in taste and has a higher smoke point than even peanut oil, which means you can use it at higher temperatures than most other oils.
http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/CollectedInfo/OilSmokePoints.htm

[Warpy]

3. Peanut oil is a good, neutral oil

so consider trying it if you're not fond of Goya. Also try to find a health food grocery, those stock all sorts of oils, refined and unrefined.

Corn popped in unrefined corn oil is a real trip.

My own favorite for a neutral oil is safflower. If I want the flavor, I'll use the best olive oil I can find, and I've always been partial to Bertolli.

Good oil is well worth the money, although I did use the "vegetable oil" stuff when I was poor, store brand.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. That's an odd store. Around here corn, safflower, canola, olive and...

some others are always available in the supermarkets. "Vegetable" oil usually means soybean oil, and I try to avoid it-- saturated fats and all that. I found some grapeseed oil at Trader Joes's and that's useful stuff, but I don't see it anywhere else. For the little peanut oil I use in stirfry or popcorn, I just pour it off the top of natural peanut butter.

Anyway, if you're used to corn oil, you want corn oil, and I don't understand why your store didn't have much of a selection.

[Warpy]

8. Unless you eat Smucker's

that oil you're pouring off the top of the peanut butter might be any of a dozen types of oil, including soybean. Read the label.

Smucker's Natural is the only one I know of that has only "peanuts, salt" on its label and nothing else.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. I do read labels, and happen to have jars of Trader Joe's and King Kullen...

house brands right here and they both say peanuts and salt. Just peanuts and salt. I've also bought Teddy's, Polaner, and A&P's house brand, and don't remember any of them having anything but peanuts and salt.

TJ's even has a salt-free variety-- just peanuts.

(Admittedly, all are allowed to have that tiny percntage of roach legs in the stuff, but that doesn't count.)

[Warpy]

10. Mmmm, roach legs

The chitin slows fat absorption while giving that extra fiber.

Even most health food store "natural" peanut butters list oil since most processes require oil to turn peanut meal into actual peanut butter. The food co-op has a peanut grinder in the store to make one's own without salt, oil, or anything but peanuts. That and Smucker's were the only two ways to get oil free PB around my part of town. TJ's is a 45 minute drive away and not really worth it, so I don't know what they've got.

One thing I've noticed with a lot of health food store peanut butters is that they're more oil than peanut these days, really not to my liking unless I'm using it to make Chinese BBQ sauce.

Smucker's, however, never disappoints.

[japple]

6. I can always find corn oil at the main grocery stores in my area.

The problem is that Kroger only sells it in HUGE bottles that would take years for me to use. I use corn oil for making cornbread and popcorn, and that's about it. But the problem is solved as I found smaller bottles of store brand corn oil at another grocery store. Try a different grocery store.

[kestrel91316]

7. I only use canola oil and olive oil, for years. Haven't paid any attention to

corn oil...........

[japple]

11. Canola oil gives a lot of people heartburn. I try to avoid it. n/t

[hippywife]

12. I don't use corn oil but

if it's what you needed, I'd probably have bought the Goya hoping it was less likely to be GMO than U.S. brands. I don't know if it is or not, but we know the others are.