Me and my girlfriend have been having a discussion for a whole day about whether or not fats are oils. We’ve googled it and the only facts we found is that fats are solids and oils are liquid, we also found that they are the same, we both agreed on that. But she also claims that oils are necessarily plant-based, which I don’t agree with.
She’s studying biology, and knows the chemistry and the proper names for things, while I have less scientific know-how, but know damn well you can use bacon fat as cooking oil. I don’t know if l’m right, moreover, I don’t know how to explain that she is wrong (if she is). Please help.
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Fats and oils are made of the same stuff – long chain molecules (hydrocarbons – actually not quite because there’s a little bit of oxygen in there but nvm) that are insoluble in water.
The two are pretty much interchangeable – in fact vegetable oils are often referred to as vegetable fats.
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