What cooking oil is the most common in your country?
April 5, 2025
Here in CZ it's sunflower or vegetable oil, probably sunflower being the most common. Olive oil not so much. It's typically reserved just for salad dressings or specialty purposes, not often used in common daily cooking.
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In Portugal, it’s undoubtedbly the olive oil. Sunflower or vegetable oil is only used for deepfrying.
Olive oil is a lot more common down here than in Central/Northern Europe,as I think would be expected…we have a lot of olive trees and a long tradition of using olives, not only for oil!
People do use seed oils for basic frying though, and in particular for deep frying.. peanut oil, sunflower oil for example.
Other types of oil in small quantities here in Sicily, and butter is used very little for basic cooking.
In the west-south coastline of Turkey, olive oil is most common (it’s basically the one we use) in the north corn, hazelnut oil, butter and in the east animal-based fats… So, depends on the geography and cuisine. Sunflower oil is probably one that’s used in more or less every household to some degree.
Olive oil and it’s not even close. Sunflower oil for deep frying.
i guess rapeseed oil. at least i use it all the time because it’s so cheap
Olive oil by long stretch. Seed oils are reserved for deep frying.
Rapeseed oil definitely most common in the Nordics, not seldom combined with butter.
I use sunflower for frying, unfiltered extra virgin cold press olive oil for salads and extra virgin cold press olive oil pasta.
For daily cooking the most common type is rapeseed/canola.
Pretty much the same. Rapeseed or sunflower for cooking and olive oil for salads. Some use olive oil or butter for cooking but you can’t heat it to too hot temperatures so it might not be suitable for every dish.
from how the Czech countryside looks like, I’d rather guess, rapeseed oil is the most common one in Czechia lol
sunflower and rapeseed oil are most common I think.
For salads it is very varied, with peanut, sesame, olive oil all being used depending on what taste you want.
Sunflower oil in the north, butter in the west, olive oil in the south and duck grease in the south-west.
Sunflower, Canola and Olive are all pretty equally common
For cooking, yeah, sunflower oil is the main one, though personally I cook in butter and sometimes add a bit of olive oil to it.
Sunflower or rapeseed in Poland but olive oil is also quite common.
Rapeseed oil in the nordic. I use olive oil only when make fresh sallad. Too expensive to waste on cooking.
Rape oil……..I really prefer the swedish name for it 😆
Butter followed by butter at a close second place. Then olive oil.
Olive oil no doubt. Sunflower oil only for sponge cakes and pastries (along with butter).
Sunflower oil.
I am old enough to remember when it was lard though. Which is still in use, just not that commonplace.
Olive oil has a low smoking point, so it is not the best for frying.
That said, I am from Provence (France), so I don’t care. Olive oil all the way baby! (Beside French fries)
Butter in the north and olive oil in the south. Some people use sunflower because it’s cheaper.
You guys. All of these oils are toxic except olive but you can’t heat it or it becomes toxic too! Use ghee or coconut oil
I will be honest I think there isn’t a “common” cooking oil in the UK. It seems to be an equal amount of various oils + goose fat + lard, often depending on what you cook.
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In Portugal, it’s undoubtedbly the olive oil. Sunflower or vegetable oil is only used for deepfrying.
Olive oil is a lot more common down here than in Central/Northern Europe,as I think would be expected…we have a lot of olive trees and a long tradition of using olives, not only for oil!
People do use seed oils for basic frying though, and in particular for deep frying.. peanut oil, sunflower oil for example.
Other types of oil in small quantities here in Sicily, and butter is used very little for basic cooking.
In the west-south coastline of Turkey, olive oil is most common (it’s basically the one we use) in the north corn, hazelnut oil, butter and in the east animal-based fats… So, depends on the geography and cuisine. Sunflower oil is probably one that’s used in more or less every household to some degree.
Olive oil and it’s not even close. Sunflower oil for deep frying.
i guess rapeseed oil. at least i use it all the time because it’s so cheap
Sunflower oil here as well, if we can’t use butter. Personally I use olive oil though, since sunflower oil is apparently not very healthy and a lot more wasteful to produce (good luck extracting oil from [these](https://www.mamaalice.com.au/cdn/shop/products/sunflower1_large_large_72c1e998-1be5-43ca-87f6-b13204b18f8a_480x.jpg?v=1606791732))
Olive oil by long stretch. Seed oils are reserved for deep frying.
Rapeseed oil definitely most common in the Nordics, not seldom combined with butter.
I use sunflower for frying, unfiltered extra virgin cold press olive oil for salads and extra virgin cold press olive oil pasta.
For daily cooking the most common type is rapeseed/canola.
Pretty much the same. Rapeseed or sunflower for cooking and olive oil for salads. Some use olive oil or butter for cooking but you can’t heat it to too hot temperatures so it might not be suitable for every dish.
from how the Czech countryside looks like, I’d rather guess, rapeseed oil is the most common one in Czechia lol
sunflower and rapeseed oil are most common I think.
For salads it is very varied, with peanut, sesame, olive oil all being used depending on what taste you want.
Sunflower oil in the north, butter in the west, olive oil in the south and duck grease in the south-west.
Sunflower, Canola and Olive are all pretty equally common
For cooking, yeah, sunflower oil is the main one, though personally I cook in butter and sometimes add a bit of olive oil to it.
Sunflower or rapeseed in Poland but olive oil is also quite common.
Rapeseed oil in the nordic. I use olive oil only when make fresh sallad. Too expensive to waste on cooking.
Rape oil……..I really prefer the swedish name for it 😆
Butter followed by butter at a close second place. Then olive oil.
Olive oil no doubt. Sunflower oil only for sponge cakes and pastries (along with butter).
Sunflower oil.
I am old enough to remember when it was lard though. Which is still in use, just not that commonplace.
Olive oil has a low smoking point, so it is not the best for frying.
That said, I am from Provence (France), so I don’t care. Olive oil all the way baby! (Beside French fries)
Butter in the north and olive oil in the south. Some people use sunflower because it’s cheaper.
You guys. All of these oils are toxic except olive but you can’t heat it or it becomes toxic too! Use ghee or coconut oil
I will be honest I think there isn’t a “common” cooking oil in the UK. It seems to be an equal amount of various oils + goose fat + lard, often depending on what you cook.