What is cooking fat?

Answer 1

PLEASE, DO NOT THROW IT AWAY YET! You're "old" cooking oil has several uses such as: Reusing it if it's not too dirty, Frying, Greasing cast-iron pots and pans or adding a roux and making gravy! Store your left over oil in a hermatically sealed container in a dry cool place, dispose of after about a month to prevent rancidity. Never pour down the drain!

Answer 2

Cooking fats, are just merely what kind of fat you are using. These are things, like butter, lard and shortening just to name a few. You can also use certain oils, and fat that has been rendered down.

Answer 3

Well it depends what you're cooking, you normally don't use grease except oil.

For baking, e.g bread, cakes, biscuits, you'd usually use butter, but sometimes you can grease baking pans with oil.

You'll have to be more specific.

Answer 4

Cooking grease is like lard, or grease from other things.

Answer 5

Typically olive oil or vegetable oil, depending on what you are cooking. If you are baking, it would be vegetable oil. If you are sauteeing, it could be either one. Olive oil has more flavor.

Answer 6

if you cook a mash-potato that is fat

Answer 7

To rub an oily or a fatty substance the surface of a pan-such as a griddle, muffin pan or cake pan to prevent the food prepared in it from sticking.