[Oz.]

I just cooked my scrambled eggs in this for breakfast



Also my label says nothing about refrigerating, when I opened the jar it seem pretty hard, but the texture is still soft even in its jelly like state.

[JayJuanGee]

(10-17-2016 09:06 AM)Oz. Wrote:  

I just cooked my scrambled eggs in this for breakfast

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Also my label says nothing about refrigerating, when I opened the jar it seem pretty hard, but the texture is still soft even in its jelly like state.

Whether the label says that it recommends (or requires) refrigeration or not, I think that most coconut oil is going to be very similar in whether it is likely to go rancid.

If you have a decent quality of coconut oil and you are storing it in cool places and well sealed (and without refrigeration), you could likely store it 5 years or more without any real deterioration in the product. Of course, with refrigeration, you probably are going to get longer time, but do you really want to take up your fridge space?

Some brands of coconut oil have a bit better flavors and smells than others, and likely this has to do with how they are processed.. and probably the more pure the process, the more likely the coconut oil is going to preserve its flavors and smells.

I have read that coconut oils will begin to smell bad or look funny when it is starting to go rancid, and I think that the thing with rancid oils is that they become very inflammatory and non-nutritious once they become rancid - they kind of transmorphize (if that is a word?) from a state of nutritiousness to anti-nutritiousness.

I have two locations that I keep coconut oil, so I tend to keep the one that I am using refrigerated (so I do not mind sacrificing a little bit of my fridge space for this purpose) and the one that I am not using (I hate to run out of things), I keep in a cool dry place (and well sealed - usually has not been opened yet).

Since coconut turns liquid at about 78 degrees Fahrenheit, I sometimes will bring it out of the fridge for a while if I want it in its liquid state or if I am in a hurry, I will microwave it for 15 seconds or so, depending on the quantity of coconut oil that i am then planning to use.

[sonoran_]

yes keep a little mason jar full of it in the bathroom for everything that doesnt involve putting it in my mouth.

Tried shaving with it once and doesnt work ( as someone already mentioned).

Also one time I ate a spoon of it in the morning to go workout and it made me nauseous. Could be a personal thing though because I felt I had low sodium at this point.

[churros]

Been using this for lube with great pleasure. But now it's getting cold, the stuff's gone rock solid! Anyone figured a way around this without interrupting the festivities?

[JayJuanGee]

(11-17-2016 08:25 PM)churros Wrote:  

Been using this for lube with great pleasure. But now it's getting cold, the stuff's gone rock solid! Anyone figured a way around this without interrupting the festivities?

Well, liquidation point is 78 degrees farenheit and 26 degrees celsius.

I usually put it in the microwave for 10 or 20 seconds when I want it to be quickly liquid, but I am sure that there are quite a few other warming up related solutions, including putting the coconut oil in another container and then you could just put that container in a cup of warm water.. like tea, so by the time you are done with foreplay the tea is ready.

You don't wanna burn your pee pee..., though so you don't wanna put it in the microwave for very long.

And you know, I never have used it for sexual lube... I think that it may be worth consideration.. and even slipping it in without consent may be fun.. since there should be no harm with such a "natural" solution.

[They Call Me Mister Tony]

I've used coconut oil to whiten my teeth, and it actually works. I just have to do it on more of a consistent basis.

[redonion]

I recently burned the shit out of my arm while searing a steak (hot butter splashed out of the pan and doused my arm). I've been applying various creams to it, but nothing has worked better than coconut oil! It's a great cooling agent and also seems to be helping my burns recover quickly. I'm worried about scarring, but I think the coconut oil will prevent that.

[churros]

Thoughts? I only use this stuff for lube nowadays, and to grease my cast iron. Link.

It's also good for moisturising, and putting in one's hair. The author doesn't account for the historical uses of coconut oil. But the dietary claims seem legit.

Quote:

Coconut oil is a miracle super food. Its advocates claim it promotes weight loss, fights heart disease, improves skin health, improves digestion, boosts your immune system, helps to prevent cancer, reduces the symptoms of Alzheimers and even helps fight against AIDS (no, really).

And then there are the celebrities. Paltrow, Kardashian, Aniston, Jolie. The type of beautiful and super-rich women who would be unlikely to be paid of to endorse a product proudly laud the benefits of this saturated fat. Popping a spoon in their tea, talking several tablespoons a day as a superfood supplement.

And the nutritionists. Almost every nutritionist and healthy eating blogger on the planet has a use and an endorsement for coconut oil.

It is after all fat. And almost all of it is saturated fat. Which is bad, right? As usual it is a lot more complicated. Although saturated fats are not quite the evil once thought, they are hardly a health food. ‘Extra-Virgin’ or ‘Cold Pressed’ (essentially an unrefined coconut oil where the temperature has been kept below 50C) coconut oil still has very high level of saturated fat and has been shown to increase cholesterol. Although its proponents will say it increases the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol, most studies have shown it also increases the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol too. It is probably not the worst fat you can eat, but probably not the best either. It is fat, which is important in the diet, but as usual the most important thing is balance. Eat a balanced diet with some fat. Fat is very calorie dense, so should be consumed in moderation. That’s any fat. Even a miracle one. As for the other health benefits claimed, these are either completely made up, based only on bogus research or anecdote. I have never seen any evidence of a well-conducted study on any of the claimed health benefits of coconut oil and can only assume that no such thing exists.

How has this happened? How are the many health benefits of coconut oil so entwined in the public consciousness that they are generally accepted as fact, despite having no scientific basis. Why does this happen so much with food?

There are conspiracy theorists, many of whom believe a powerful lobby of coconut producing countries is responsible for this spread of misinformation. To aid their flagging industry beset by the negative health implications of coconut oil, they decided on the (frankly genius) strategy of positioning their product as a cure all superfood. Indeed there is evidence that many of the most vocal advocates of coconut oil do receive funding from lobby groups supported by the coconut industry. You have to admire them in some ways. To rebrand one of the most despised food ingredients and turn it into a health food is a remarkable job. Maybe they are currently working on a campaign to promote MSG. Or perhaps salt (the miracle salt diet anyone). Maybe sugar in a few years time (after all the people of the 1980’s had so much less obesity and they ate sugar all the time).

Even if there is a mysterious lobbying group, I doubt if they could have orchestrated such a brilliant campaign in its entirety. In truth I suspect a number of people have seen an opportunity to exploit and add value to this cheap commodity oil for commercial gain. Make some spurious pseudo-scientific claims about it. Claim that it is the health secret of various Polynesian populations (they are healthy, they eat coconuts a bit, therefore coconut oil makes you healthy – that’s science isn’t it?). Ignore all the other countries that consume high levels of coconut oil and have above average heart disease. Ignore years of proven research about the dangers of consuming high levels of saturated fat. Then get a load ‘nutritional therapists’ to endorse your product. Get these ‘nutritional therapists’ (or to give them their more accurate medical term ‘people’) to ‘prescribe’ coconut oil to their many high profile celebrity clients. Celebrities will then provide you free product endorsement of almost incalculable value. Articles will appear in every lifestyle magazine and national paper. Qualified doctors and nutritionists will try to argue that all the claims are baseless, but they will never achieve the column inches dedicated to the countless celebrities and ‘gurus’. The public will believe the hype. The truth is meaningless. The truth does not consist of evidence-based research or peer reviewed articles in respected journals. The truth is what Gwyneth Paltrow posts on Twitter.

If there was a PR agency who could replicate the coconut oil campaign for another commodity, manufacturers would be climbing over each other to sign it up. From artery clogging, all-purpose, commodity fat to high-value super food, with leading brands charging £10-20 per kilo. The campaign for coconut oil has not been coordinated. It has grown up in the cracks of food regulation. Celebrities, fake scientist with no accountability, unscrupulous companies willing to make unproven claims for their products. All of this goes unchecked. Some people make a lot of money, which is great for them. They have developed a brand and used it to sell a product, which in may ways is what business is all about. But the cost? False information about food being spread into the public domain and taken as scientific truth. People being encouraged to increase the amount of saturated fat in their diet in the belief it will make them healthier. And proper science - real, valuable nutritional advice - once again pushed to the side-lines.

[BB1]

Looks like coconut oil is just another trendy fad that suck people in :

"Take coconut oil, for example. A recent survey found that 72% of Americans (and 37% of nutritionists) consider coconut oil a healthy food. “There’s no basis at all for that, and in fact we were trying to figure out where those claims came from,” says Dr. Sacks. “Coconut oil is pure fat—higher in saturated fat that other sources like palm oil or butter—and there’s nothing known about it that would mitigate the bad effects of saturated fat.”

The paper cites seven clinical trials in which coconut oil was found to raise LDL “bad” cholesterol just as much as butter, beef fat, and palm oil. Studies comparing coconut oil’s and other saturated fats’ direct effects on cardiovascular disease rates have not been reported, the authors note. But because high LDL cholesterol is a known cause of heart disease—and because coconut oil has “no known offsetting favorable effects”—the panel advises against its use."

http://www.bostonherald.com/lifestyle/he...t_docs_say

[RustyShackleford]

^^"In fact, they say, studies show that swapping saturated fat with polyunsaturated vegetable oil can reduce cardiovascular disease by about 30%. That’s similar to reductions typically seen with the use of statin drugs."

A lot of evidence suggests otherwise, they are just being bought out to show the studies for you to use statins and buy their vegetable oils. Look up PD Mangan's stuff at roguehealthandfitness.com he has all the studies there.

Have also used coconut oil to treat sunburns a day after, moisturizes the skin. Not as good as pure aloe but gets the job done.