Best Cooking Oils: Alternative For Cooking Spray

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Alternative For Cooking Spray

I prefer not to use commercial nonstick cooking spray. So I went to the kitchenware area of a department store and bought a spray bottle made just for cooking oil. I fill it with canola, olive or another favorite oil and use it whenever nonstick cooking spray is called for in a recipe. Elizabeth M., Albert Bridge, Nova Scotia
Non-stick cooking spray is convenient. It’s also expensive and full of propellants; finding one made without genetically modified soybean or canola oil is almost impossible.My solution? Grease the pan with shortening. I buy non-hydrogenated vegetable shortening (it’s a great big tub of palm kernel oil) and use that anywhere I would normally use cooking spray.I use a silicone pastry brush from the dollar store and just paint on a no-stick coating. I hate washing the greasy brush, though, so I keep it in a jar with a little shortening. Cheap and natural!