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Walnut oil is oil extracted from walnuts.

Culinary use

Walnut oil is not used as extensively as other oils in food preparation due to cost. It is light-coloured and delicate in flavour and scent, with a surprisingly nutty quality. Although sometimes used for pan frying, most chefs do not use walnut oil for high temperature cooking, as heating can remove some of the oil's flavour and produce a slight bitterness; instead it is used primarily as an ingredient in cold dishes such as salad dressings, where its flavour more easily comes through. In addition, the antioxidants present in the oil are easily destroyed in cooking. Most walnut oil is produced in France, though there are also producers in Australia, New Zealand and California.

Artistic use

Walnut oil was one of the most important and vital oils used by Renaissance painters. Its quickness of drying and lack of yellow tint make it a good oil paint thinner and brush cleaner. However, the paint film it produces is often considered inferior to that of linseed oil.

Commercially, walnut oil has become harder to find; demand is often low, and stock can become rancid if kept improperly. Instead of walnut oil many artists and stores sell linseed oil, poppyseed oil, and safflower oil as replacements.

On the other hand, walnut oil is favoured by some woodworkers as a finish for implements that will come in contact with food, such as cutting boards and wooden bowls.

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Edible fats and oils
FatsButter • Cocoa butter • Ghee • Lard • Margarine • Salo • Schmaltz • Shea butter • Suet • Tallow • Vegetable shortening
OilsAlmond oil • Argan oil • Canola oil • Coconut oil • Corn oil • Cottonseed oil • Grape seed oil • Olive oil • Palm oil • Peanut oil • Pumpkin seed oil • Rapeseed oil • Safflower oil • Sesame oil • Soybean oil • Sunflower oil • Walnut oil
See also:List of vegetable oils
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Walnuts (genus Juglans) are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10 - 40 metres tall (about 30-130 ft.
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Cooking is the act of preparing food for eating by the application of heat. It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to alter the flavor or digestibility of food.
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Largest city Sydney
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Renaissance (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento; Spanish: Renacimiento), was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.
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Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint consisting of small pigment particles suspended in a drying oil. Oil paints have been used in England as early as the 13th century for simple decoration,[1] but were not widely adopted for artistic purposes until the 15th century.
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A paint thinner is a solvent used to thin oil-based paints, or as a cleaning agent.

Paint thinners include:
  • Acetone
  • Mineral spirits
  • Mineral turpentine (turps)
  • Wood turpentine
  • Naphtha
  • Toluene
  • Xylene

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Linseed oil, also known as flax seed oil, is a yellowish drying oil derived from the dried ripe seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum, Linaceae). It is obtained by pressing, followed by an optional stage of solvent extraction.
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Linseed oil, also known as flax seed oil, is a yellowish drying oil derived from the dried ripe seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum, Linaceae). It is obtained by pressing, followed by an optional stage of solvent extraction.
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Poppyseed oil (also poppy seed oil or poppy oil) is oil extracted from the seeds of the opium poppy (''Papaver somniferum).

The whole seeds of the poppy plant are edible and non-toxic, and have been used for cooking (particularly baking) since ancient times.
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C. tinctorius

Binomial name
Carthamus tinctorius
(Mohler, Roth, Schmidt & Boudreaux, 1967)

Safflower
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Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood.

History

Along with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was certainly one of the first materials worked by primitive human beings.
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Fat

Fat may refer to:
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  • Adipose tissue, an anatomical term for loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes

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The acronym FATS may mean:
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Fats may refer to: the nutrients used on food
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Butter is a dairy product, made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. Butter is used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying.
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Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is the pale-yellow, edible natural vegetable fat of the cacao bean. Cocoa butter is extracted from the cacao beans and can be used to make chocolate, cocoa powder, pharmaceuticals, ointments, and toiletries.
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Ghee (Hindi घी, Urdu گھی, Punjabi ਘੋ, Kashmiri ग्याव/گیاو - from Sanskrit ghṛtə
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Lard

Wet-rendered lard, from pork fatback.
Fat composition

Saturated fats 38–43 %:
Palmitic acid: 25–28 %
Stearic acid: 12–14 %
Myristic acid: 1 %
Unsaturated fats 56–62 %
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Margarine (pronounced IPA: /ˈmɑrdʒərɪn, ˈmɑrgəriːn/), as a generic term, can indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes.
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Schmaltz or schmalz is rendered pig, chicken, or goose fat used for frying or as a spread on bread in German cuisine. The brown fatty residue left in the pan after frying bacon is schmalz.
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Shea nut butter is a slightly greenish or ivory-colored natural fat extracted from fruit of the shea tree by crushing and boiling. Shea butter is widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer and an emollient. Shea butter is also edible.
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Suet (/ˈsuː.ɪt/) is raw beef or mutton fat, especially the hard fat found around the loins and kidneys. It melts at about 21°C (70°F). It consists mostly of saturated fat.
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Tallow is rendered mutton, beef or other bovine fat, processed from suet. (Rendered fat obtained from pigs is known as lard.)

The tallow derived from beef is called stearin.
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Shortening is a semisolid fat used in food preparation, especially baked goods, and is so called because it inhibits the formation of long gluten strands in wheat-based doughs, giving them a "short" texture (as in shortbread).
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The acronym OIL can refer to:
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  • Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language, an Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web.
  • Oil India Limited.

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Argan oil is an oil produced from the fruits of the Argan (Argania spinosa) a species of tree endemic to the calcareous semi-desert of southwestern Morocco. It is the sole species in the genus Argania. The Argan tree now grows only in SW Morocco.
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canola is a trademarked quality description of a group of cultivars of rapeseed variants from which low erucic acid rapeseed oil and low glucosinolate meal are obtained. Also known as "LEAR" oil (for Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed
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Coconut oil, also known as coconut butter, is a tropical oil with many applications. It is extracted from copra (derived from Malayalam word "kopra" which means dried coconut).
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