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Oil expands when heated, and contracts when cooled. So if you had some potatoes floating on an oil planet, higher temperatures would correspond to a larger planetary radius, and the potatoes would be further from the center. The result is that the potatoes would be lighter. So, higher oil temperature results in lighter potatoes, and conversely, lower oil temperature results in heavier potatoes.
If the oil temperature gets high enough, however, two things could happen. One is that the dense potatoes would sink to the center of the planet, where the gravitational forces are equal in all directions and cancel, so they would weigh nothing. Another possibility is that the potatoes would be fried, and depending on their resulting structure they could either float or sink. The question cannot be fully answered without knowing more about the oil, the potatoes and the potato geometry.
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