Ingredients

1086 articles on substrates, cultures and additives.

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Pilot-whale blubber

Faroese spik is the under-skin blubber of the long-finned pilot whale, eaten salted alongside dried fish or whale meat and sometimes spread on bread. It is a distinct fat tissue, not meat, sheep tallow or rendered whale oil.

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Seal blubber

Seal blubber is the fat beneath a seal’s skin, used as food and oil. Greenlandic iginneq is a named fermented blubber food, distinct from aged seal meat.

fresh raw sheep fat trimmings
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Sheep fat

Sheep fat is edible adipose tissue from sheep, including back and tail depots. A South African zebra-droëwors experiment compared several fat levels; its findings are specific to that formulation.

A slim clear bottle with a dark cap holds deep reddish amber toasted sesame oil on a warm ivory tabletop.
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Toasted sesame oil

Dark, strongly scented oil pressed from roasted sesame seed, used as a last-minute seasoning in East Asian sauces, dips and dressings rather than as a frying oil.

An open clear glass jar of solid white coconut oil stands on a warm ivory tabletop.
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Coconut oil

Fat pressed or separated from the kernel of a mature coconut: solid below about 25 °C, mostly saturated and half lauric acid, sold virgin, refined or hydrogenated.

Golden-green olive oil in a corked clear glass bottle and shallow glass dish on a warm ivory tabletop.
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Extra-virgin olive oil

Extra-virgin olive oil is mechanically extracted olive-fruit oil meeting chemical and sensory standards. Its fruit aromas, bitterness and pungency vary by cultivar, harvest and handling.

A solid pale yellow butter block on a plain plate.
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Butter

Butter is a milk-fat emulsion made by churning cream. It enriches dough or finishes bread; melted, cool and room-temperature butter serve different recipe roles.

A clear glass bowl of transparent golden olive oil on a warm ivory surface.
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Olive oil

Oil extracted from olive fruit serves as cooking fat, flavouring and, in some cheese methods, an exterior treatment. Grade, cultivar, processing and storage shape its character.

Unrendered white pork back-fat slab with a pink lean edge on an ivory platter.
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Pork back fat

Unrendered subcutaneous pork fat provides distinct pale pieces, texture and lipid flavor precursors in sausage, and differs from belly, leaf fat and rendered lard.

Golden vegetable oil in an uncapped clear glass bottle and a shallow glass bowl on a warm ivory tabletop.
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Vegetable oil

A broad kitchen label for edible oils pressed or extracted from many plant sources, each with its own flavor, composition and handling needs.

Golden mustard oil in a clear open jar beside a small dish of mustard seeds.
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Mustard oil

Mustard oil is an aromatic pressed seed oil used to cook and season foods such as Nepali achar. Its seed and pressing method vary with the product.