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What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« on: October 17, 2011, 12:48:15 pm »
I want to make a choc chip muesli slice and i have all the ingredients except grapeseed oil. What can i use instead? I have vegetable oil, peanut, macadamia and olive oil.

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Re: What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2011, 01:16:04 pm »
Any other light flavoured oil should be alright; from your list, I'd pick themacadamia oil because I think the flavour would be most complimentary, but I don't know if it is suitable for cooking with - check the smoke point on macadamia oil. i definitely wouldn't use the olive unless it was a light olive oil.

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Re: What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2011, 08:25:06 pm »
I would use Macadamia Oil or vegetable oil

like thermoheaven said ,check the smoke point on macadamia oil

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Re: What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2011, 08:27:22 pm »
sunflower oil is a good substitute for grapeseed oil  :)
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Re: What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2011, 05:33:39 am »
I too would use sunflower oil as an alternative to grapeseed., though grapeseed is my vegetable oil of choice.
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Re: What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2011, 12:20:29 am »
As a reference, here is an easy-to-read graph of the smoke points of almost all culinary fats and oils. 

Cooking for Engineers

I've posted this before in another topic. 

We do have the section Tips and Tricks but sometimes these "Standard"  answers, such as a link to temp and measurement conversions, need to be in a highlighted topic that stays at the head of the list instead of moving down because of the date of last post.

Just a suggestion.
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Re: What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2011, 01:29:57 pm »
Thanks everyone. I ended up buying the grapeseed oil in the end. My muesli slice tasted ordinary though so probably won't make again.

I didn't know about smoke points either. You learn something every day :)

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Re: What can i use if i don't have grapeseed oil?
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2011, 12:24:31 am »
There are a few muesli bar recipes on the forum Tasty.  I've made this one and it is really nice. Wondering if you could add your choc chips to this.
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