What is the best cooking spray?

Question

Greetings.

I used to be a cooking-spray user until I noticed my sprays would leave sticky yellow residue on my pans. I then turned to butter for frying, but am looking for something healthier. What causes certain sprays to leave a residue? What sprays can I count on to not ruin cookware?

Answer 1

My favorite cooking spray is the one I make. It's very easy to do. Go to a Wal-mart or some other store that has kitchen supplies and get a sprayer for oil. Then put your favorite oil in (I like Organic Olive Oil), pump the handle to increase the pressure, and spray. It's not only good for you, it's good for the environment because you use air pressure to spray instead of something unnatural. Plus you don't get all of the artificial junk that is leaving that yucky yellow stuff.

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Answer 3

Best Cooking Spray

Answer 4

Okay, first of all I've been cooking for myself since I was 8 (it was either learn fast or starve) so I've gathered a few tricks over the years. I now cook daily for 5 people and holidays meals for a dozen or more people twice (sometimes more often :o)

Nonstick bakeware such as cookie sheets and stuff DO NOT need any kind of spray what so ever. Honestly! Once you put the sprays on, you will ruin it with stick residue. Invest in new nonstick bakeware and ditch the sprays (they come in environmentally harmful cans and are full of chemicals anyway - who needs that?) If you feel you must put something on the bakeware, use parchment paper - commercially available at your grocer's in with the wax paper and what not. Once you go parchment, you'll never go back to anything else!

Next, don't cook with Teflon pots and pans. Teflon contains some pretty nasty stuff:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502041.html

Instead, try copper-bottomed pots. Now, they're a wee bit fussy. Cook with olive oil, it's chock full o' that heart-healthy fat. Always cook on a much lower heat when using copper-bottom pots because copper conducts the heat so much better. The label says do not put in dishwasher, but honestly I've always put mine through and never had one ruined.

Anyway, hope this helps!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray is the best I've used. It's the chemicals used in the propellants in some sprays that build up on cookware.

Answer 7

Get a Misto Oil sprayer available at most kitchen stores. It will allow you to use any oil you choose with no alcohol or propellant. It is the alcohol in the commercial spray that causes the yellow. You could also simply use a paper towel to spread about 1 teaspoon of any oil on a pan for sufficient lubrication.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I would say natural canola oil cooking spray, it has 0 calories and 0 fat and it cooks just like any other cooking spray, hope this helps, oh western family brand works good.

Answer 10

PAM cooking spray, Great Value brand from wal-mart is also good as well. Also olive oil.