Why is macadamia nut oil recommended in the Hamptons Diet instead of canola oil?
Some types of nut oils, such as macadamia and peanut oils, resist burning during high-temperature cooking. If you frequently cook using a wok, you will appreciate this quality, as well as the light flavour of most nut oils. The remainder of this answer is a reply to the poster who commented at length, inaccurately, on canola oil. A few comments to begin with… – The first stage in oil extraction is to crush the seeds. The crushed seed is then heated and oil is extracted using a screw press. This process reduces the oil content from about 40% to 50% of the seed mass to under 20%. The remaining oil in the press cake is extracted using one of two methods: cold pressing or chemical extraction. Chemical extraction of oil from canola and certain other oilseeds is done using hexane. The crude oil is then refined to remove impurities, including any remaining hexane from chemical extraction. Cold-pressing does not remove as much oil as the chemical extraction process, so pressed oils of all ty
