Definition of Cooking oil

1. Noun. Any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking.

Generic synonyms: Oil, Vegetable Oil

Definition of Cooking oil

1. Noun. A purified fat taken from plant material that is commonly used in cooking, e.g. olive oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooking Oil

cookie jar reserve
cookie jars
cookie sheet
cookie sheets
cookiecutter
cookiecutter shark
cookiecutter sharks
cookiecutters
cookieless
cookielike
cookies
cooking
cooking-pot
cooking apple
cooking chocolate
cooking oil (current term)
cooking pan
cooking pot
cooking pots
cooking stove
cooking the books
cooking up
cooking utensil
cooking utensils
cooking with gas
cookings
cookless
cookmaid
cookmaids
cookoff

Literary usage of Cooking oil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Egyptian Food Subsidy System: Structure, Performance, and Options for Reform by Akhter U. Ahmed (2001)
"Option 3: Eliminate the Sugar and cooking oil Subsidies In 1997, about one-fifth of total subsidized sugar disappeared as leakage before reaching consumers, ..."

2. Good Food, how to Prepare it: The Principles of Cooking, and Nearly Five by George E. Cornforth (1920)
"... sugar 3 tablespoons cooking oil 3 ounces or about 34 cup coarse-chopped walnut meats Proceed as in making currant buns. Parker House Rolls Use either ..."

3. Animal and Vegetable Fixed Oils, Fats, Butters, and Waxes: Their Preparation by Charles Romley Alder Wright (1894)
"... 350. ,, „ relative price of, .'{42. ,, ,, ,, tendency to gumming, 323. „ „ use as cooking oil, 304. ,, ,, i, in soft soapmaking ..."

4. Egypt's Food Subsidy and Rationing System: A Description by Harold Alderman, Joachim Von Braun, Sakr Ahmed Sakr (1982)
"cooking oil and Sugar Through quotas and various tiers of prices, the Ministry ... cooking oil is both domestically produced and imported (see the Appendix, ..."

5. The Pilot Food Price Subsidy Scheme in the Philippines: Its Impact on Income by Marito Garcia, Per Pinstrup-Andersen (1987)
"For cooking oil, however, the rationed quantity was ex- ... On average, per capita intake of cooking oil was about 2.20 kilograms per year, ..."

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