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coconut oil

Postby KeenCook2 » Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:32 pm

I bought a jar of coconut oil in Lidl yesterday by mistake - I thought I was getting a jar of coconut cream and couldn't believe how inexpensive it was :D

I know it's quite trendy at the moment.

Are there any recipes you use it for in which it is particularly good?

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Re: coconut oil

Postby Busybee » Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:31 pm

Not a cooking use but……no laughing at the back, I use it on my skin. Especially if it’s bad with eczema, I go to bed smelling like a Bounty bar but wake up with better, less angry skin.


I’m sure others will have recipes.

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Re: coconut oil

Postby Suelle » Tue Jun 21, 2022 5:39 pm

Sixteen recipes here. https://mainlybaking.blogspot.com/searc ... onut%20oil

They may not all be suitable, as I used coconut flour in some recipes, which is quite expensive and can be difficult to work with - it's very absorbent, so recipes need extra liquid. you can't just do a straight swap.

I haven't read through them all to see how many I'd make again, but I can particularly recommend the date and walnut sponge pudding.

Brownies worked well, IIRC, and the pineapple upside down cake. I seem to have just done a straight swap of coconut oil for the same weight of butter for those.
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Re: coconut oil

Postby Suelle » Tue Jun 21, 2022 5:40 pm

I meant to add - my daughter rubs a little coconut oil round her gums daily, for oral health.
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Re: coconut oil

Postby Sakkarin » Tue Jun 21, 2022 5:46 pm

Do what I did when I bought some cheap coconut oil.

Put it on top of the fridge and forget about it!

I'm just checking when I bought it...

Ha! Best by date was last Wednesday!

Oh dear, the tins of duck fat up there have a BBE of 2012 :-(

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Re: coconut oil

Postby Suelle » Tue Jun 21, 2022 5:48 pm

Sakkarin wrote:Do what I did when I bought some cheap coconut oil.

Put it on top of the fridge and forget about it!

I'm just checking when I bought it...

Ha! Best by date was last Wednesday!

Oh dear, the tins of duck fat up there have a BBE of 2012 :-(


I'd still use them! :D
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Re: coconut oil

Postby KeenCook2 » Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:01 pm

Brilliant, thanks Suelle. Interesting about the oral health,

Ha, Sakk, I've got a bowl of goose fat in the fridge left over from Christmas ... I have no idea how long it'll be good for, as I didn't buy it, it doesn't have any dates on it .... It's covered by a saucer and I haven't inspected it for ages.

Practically the only time we've had roast potatoes since Christmas has been when our veggie son has been here, and so I've used sunflower oil.

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Re: coconut oil

Postby Sakkarin » Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:11 pm

I've also got a tin of goose fat with 2015 BBE, and a jar of goose fat that has no date! I remember how hard it was to find before it was popularised by TV cooks, back when duck legs for confiting were £2 for two, so bought it whenever I saw it on offer. They're too expensive now, pity because I love confit duck.

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Re: coconut oil

Postby scullion » Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:11 am

i use coconut oil on my skin, too, and in a face cream i make.
i also use it, sometimes, in a thai style curry to fry off some of the veg and spice paste if i'm using coconut milk anyway.

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Re: coconut oil

Postby Renee » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:06 pm

Suelle wrote:I meant to add - my daughter rubs a little coconut oil round her gums daily, for oral health.


Suelle, this reminded me of something that I read a while ago about oil pulling. I tried it a couple of times and then gave up!

https://www.healthguideinfo.com/herbal- ... and%20thin.

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Re: coconut oil

Postby Suelle » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:59 pm

Renee wrote:
Suelle wrote:I meant to add - my daughter rubs a little coconut oil round her gums daily, for oral health.


Suelle, this reminded me of something that I read a while ago about oil pulling. I tried it a couple of times and then gave up!

https://www.healthguideinfo.com/herbal- ... and%20thin.


15 minutes is a long time to hold something in your mouth without swallowing. I remember using a prescribed mouthwash after dental surgery and not even managing 1 minute!
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Re: coconut oil

Postby Renee » Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:01 pm

Yes, that's probably why I gave up Suelle!

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Re: coconut oil

Postby Stokey Sue » Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:58 pm

The British Dental Journal is unimpressed by oil pulling

https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2018.281

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