Vegetable oil or animal fat?!
But I was told by someone else that vegetable fats don't solidify at cooler temperatures and at McDonald's, the fat for their fryers was always a white, solidified block as it was being put in.
Can vegetable oils ever solidify?
Answers: Years ago I worked at McDonalds and managers always told the customers that the fries were cooked only in vegetable oil, never any animal fats, so the fries were suitable for vegetarians.
But I was told by someone else that vegetable fats don't solidify at cooler temperatures and at McDonald's, the fat for their fryers was always a white, solidified block as it was being put in.
Can vegetable oils ever solidify?
Vegetable oils can solidify if they are hydrogenated/partially hydrogenated. So yes, it is probably vegetable oil. However, this doesn't mean it is healthy because the hydrogenation process creates trans fats. So even though vegetarians can eat them, it doesn't mean they should.
Vegetable fats can solidify, and you can always smell the stench of animal fat.
no, unless you mix it with animal fat, usually pork, they use that in the olive oil industry alot
I'd be very surprised if the fries were cooked in animal fat... I know McDs isn't the most ethical of companies but I doubt they'd risk lawsuits etc by cooking in animal fat. Their site states the fries are suitable for vegetarians so legally they have to be... they could kill someone who had an allergic reaction.
Sure they can.
According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, originally Crisco around since 1911, was a brock of solid white hydrogenated oils. Crisco now consists of a blend of soybean oil, fully hydrogenated cottonseed oil, and partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils. And it is still a solid block of white solidified, stuff. While I wouldn't cook with it, it does have some other non-culinary uses around the household that it excels at.
Yes, Pura makes an oil that is a white solid at room temperature.
There are already answers here about hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils (think Crisco). But consider this... Even if McDonald's uses 100% vegetable oil, their fries still contain Beef Tallow for flavor. McD's isn't veg-friendly!
Peace...
yes...hydrogenated...blah blah blah
what the others didn't mention- hydrogenated oils are strongly linked to nasty diseases. Go Maccas! Bowel cancer from the meat and coronary heart disease from the fries...
http://www.recoverymedicine.com/hydrogen...