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FPL Farms LLPMost cooking oils are chosen for one reason: convenience. They are neutral, cheap, and widely available. But convenience is not the same as what actually performs best in a traditional kitchen, especially for high-heat cooking like frying and tempering spices.
Desi ghee has a notably higher smoke point than most unrefined cooking oils, which means it stays stable at high heat instead of breaking down and releasing the bitter, acrid compounds that come from an oil past its smoke point. That stability is part of why ghee has been the standard fat in South Asian cooking for generations, long before refined seed oils existed.
Flavour is the other half of the comparison. Traditional, slow-simmered desi ghee carries a rich, nutty aroma that develops during the cooking process itself, while most cooking oils are deliberately refined to be flavourless. If a recipe depends on the fat contributing taste, not just heat transfer, ghee does work an oil cannot.
Pure desi ghee made the traditional way is also simple by ingredient list: milk fat, slow-simmered, with no artificial additives, preservatives, or added stabilizers. Many commercial cooking oils go through chemical refining, bleaching, and deodorizing before they reach the shelf, none of which happens with properly made desi ghee.
None of this means cooking oil has no place in the kitchen. But for the dishes where fat is doing more than just preventing sticking, slow-simmered, natural desi ghee is the one traditional cooks have never really replaced.
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