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Are you saying you think it’s better to fry potatoes in butter?
by hombre_fatal 3y ago
Are you saying you think it’s better to fry potatoes in butter?
- stevemk14ebr 3y agoLiterally no where was that said, and fat is not as bad as sugar (popularized by the sugar industry).
- CamperBob2 3y agoThat's just what Big Fat wants you to think.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoWell, when someone singles out seed oils, they almost always are saying that butter is somehow better which is why I ask. And from there I ask them for the evidence so I can gauge their epistemic standards. For example, your comments make no effort to distinguish saturated fat from unsaturated fat. Unsaturated fats are fine. Saturated fats have a mountain of evidence converging on their negative health impact.
- bob1029 3y agoI do think actual potatoes fried in butter would be healthier than whatever comes out of a bag of Lays today.
- HelloMcFly 3y agoRuffles and Lays potato chips are just potatoes, vegetable oil, and salt. I think it's debatable whether butter or sunflower oil are healthier, but the environmental impact of butter is certainly worse.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoI'd like to see the evidence for that. Given the evidence we have against saturated fat, I would expect better health outcomes for people fed potato chips fried in vegetable oil over butter. Every time we swap saturated fat with unsaturated fat, even in metabolic ward studies, we see better outcomes. When I see someone saying that butter is somehow better, I like to see what evidence they've used to reach the inference despite all the evidence against that position. Unfortunately the position usually just cashes out into "but I like butter".
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoI'm no food scientist, but it's probably better to cook perishable items in butter than it is to eat a bunch of foods made shelf-stable by a giant laundry list of ingredients that you would never eat otherwise.
- HelloMcFly 3y agoRuffles and Lays potato chips are just potatoes, vegetable oil, and salt.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoThere are more junk foods out there than potato chips.
- HelloMcFly 3y agoAh, I think I responded to the wrong commenter.
- ReptileMan 3y agoDuck fat is the real deal
- nothercastle 3y agoLard or tallow
- tarboreus 3y agoObviously.