[neuronerdgirl]

To further your point, there is shockingly little education to the general public about cooking oil smoke points. I've cooked more or less exclusively with grapeseed or safflower oil since learning about it, but so many people use low smoke point oils (olive oil mostly, thanks health craze) for high-temp purposes and there's nothing to indicate to them that there is a problem

[jhbadger]

This can be exaggerated though. Obviously you don't want to deep fry things in olive oil, but some people say ridiculous things like "olive oil should only be used as a condiment and not as a cooking oil" ignoring that people in the Mediterranean, following a diet that seems to be one of (if not the) heathiest diets on the planet, routinely cook with it.

[bobthepanda]

We ripped out home ec in US public schools long ago to focus on things that were standardize-tested.