What’s on the Cooking Fats poster
A 7-row table: Fat · Smoke point · Best for.
Approximate smoke points; refining raises them.
- Butter — 150°C — Low heat, finishing
- Extra virgin olive oil — 190°C — Dressing, gentle frying
- Coconut oil — 175°C — Medium heat
- Rapeseed / canola — 200°C — General cooking
- Sunflower oil — 225°C — Frying
- Ghee / clarified butter — 250°C — High heat, butter flavour
- Refined avocado oil — 270°C — Searing
Clarifying butter removes the milk solids that burn. That single step raises its smoke point by about 100°C.
Questions about the Cooking Fats poster
- What’s on the Cooking Fats poster?
- A 7-row table: Fat · Smoke point · Best for. Approximate smoke points; refining raises them. Butter — 150°C — Low heat, finishing; Extra virgin olive oil — 190°C — Dressing, gentle frying; Coconut oil — 175°C — Medium heat; Rapeseed / canola — 200°C — General cooking; Sunflower oil — 225°C — Frying; Ghee / clarified butter — 250°C — High heat, butter flavour; Refined avocado oil — 270°C — Searing. Clarifying butter removes the milk solids that burn. That single step raises its smoke point by about 100°C.
- Who is the Cooking Fats poster for?
- Cooking Fats belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Cooking Fats poster?
- Match the fat to the temperature. Past its smoke point, any fat tastes bitter. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Cooking Fats belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Cooking Fats?
- Storing Bread, Cheese and Chillies sit alongside Cooking Fats in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Storing BreadCheeseChillies
- Is the Cooking Fats poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Cooking Fats downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Cooking Fats poster print at?
- Cooking Fats is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Cooking Fats loses nothing.Printing guide
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