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Oh... That makes so much more sense. I have many ever-so-slightly aged cookbooks (Asian-themed, in particular) that would always recommend, "Use rapeseed oil f

Oh... That makes so much more sense. I have many ever-so-slightly aged cookbooks (Asian-themed, in particular) that would always recommend, "Use rapeseed oil for stir-frying, due to its high smoke point" and driving myself nuts trying to find rapeseed oil at grocery stores. Even at Asian marts! I could find grapeseed oil, but never rapeseed. Thank you!

carabiner 6y ago
This might sound rude, but you never thought to google "rapeseed oil" and immediately clear up what it is?
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  I think resourcefulness is inexplicably decreasing in the age of information. For example, it amazes me how many questions on r/Spanish could be answered in 5 seconds by pasting the title into Google, but OP also wrote two paragraphs to explain their predicament of being unable to translate a common word. I don't want to pile on our friend above, but it's a good example. We are all seconds away from just looking up rapeseed oil and learning some interesting things about it, but we don't even do that (myself included in all of this). It reminds me of the parable of the lumberjack who is found trying to cut down the same tree all day with a dull axe because he says he doesn't have time to sharpen it.
- LordAtlas 6y ago
  I just googled "rapeseed oil" (though I knew another name for it is "canola"), and literally the first result's title is "Rapeseed Oil (Canola Oil): Uses, Benefits, and Downsides". I understand people asking about subjective stuff but objective stuff like this is so easy to Google.
ska 6y ago
It's also still the common term in some places (e.g. UK, iirc) so you may find it in current recipes.
- TylerE 6y ago
  Technically, it's a subset. Not all rapeseed oil is low-acid (the l-a in canola).
  - ska 6y ago
    Fair point. In europe, say, would that be marketed as low acid rapeseed oil though, rather than canola?

carabiner 6y ago

This might sound rude, but you never thought to google "rapeseed oil" and immediately clear up what it is?

hombre_fatal 6y ago
I think resourcefulness is inexplicably decreasing in the age of information. For example, it amazes me how many questions on r/Spanish could be answered in 5 seconds by pasting the title into Google, but OP also wrote two paragraphs to explain their predicament of being unable to translate a common word. I don't want to pile on our friend above, but it's a good example. We are all seconds away from just looking up rapeseed oil and learning some interesting things about it, but we don't even do that (myself included in all of this). It reminds me of the parable of the lumberjack who is found trying to cut down the same tree all day with a dull axe because he says he doesn't have time to sharpen it.
LordAtlas 6y ago
I just googled "rapeseed oil" (though I knew another name for it is "canola"), and literally the first result's title is "Rapeseed Oil (Canola Oil): Uses, Benefits, and Downsides". I understand people asking about subjective stuff but objective stuff like this is so easy to Google.

ska 6y ago

It's also still the common term in some places (e.g. UK, iirc) so you may find it in current recipes.

TylerE 6y ago
Technically, it's a subset. Not all rapeseed oil is low-acid (the l-a in canola).
- ska 6y ago
  Fair point. In europe, say, would that be marketed as low acid rapeseed oil though, rather than canola?