Why Home Cooks Should Use Oil Instead Of Butter On Roasts – Exclusive (2024)
Olivia Bria
·2-min read
Choosing a roast for your weeknight dinner or celebration is the easy part. But cooking it to perfection? Now, that can be a tough feat, especially with how simple it is to overcook and underseason. Butter is widely used for enhancing flavor when searing roasts, as it can tenderize the meat and add saturated fat (which makes for a very delicious cut of meat). However, Omaha Steaks Executive Chef David Rose offers a better solution for searing in slabs of butter.
"With olive oil or even grapeseed oil, [there is] a higher smoke temperature," Rose explained in an exclusive interview with Mashed. According to Rose, smoke temperature means "the temperature in which it'll get bitter and acrid and start to burn," which is what you don't want when making a roast. That's why he advises choosing something with a low smoke temperature in order to avoid burning and achieve maximum flavor.
If you are searing a roast with butter before or after cooking it, it is more likely to burn due to its low smoke point. Instead, David Rose recommends home cooks use olive oil or grapeseed oil to lessen any chance of the roast charring. "I make it with the grapeseed oil or olive oil, and then I make that compound butter, and when it's resting, I put that compound butter on there and let it rest, as well," he says.
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Compound butter is butter mixed with herbs (such as smoked paprika, rosemary, thyme, parsley, black pepper, and salt) and minced garlic. When you allow the roast to rest, the butter melts into the "pores and crevices of the prime rib," resulting in an exceptional roast. Finally, If you need a roast recipe to complete your holiday meal, check out Mashed'sstanding rib roast recipe or Bobby Flay's prime rib recipeand apply Rose's advice.
If you are searing a roast with butter before or after cooking it, it is more likely to burn due to its low smoke point. Instead, David Rose recommends home cooks use olive oil or grapeseed oil to lessen any chance of the roast charring.
Olive oil also contains heart-healthy monounsaturated good fats and antioxidants. Butter's high saturated fat content, on the other hand, is shown in studies to lead to heart disease and other health issues. So, if you're looking to make a healthier choice for your heart, olive oil is the clear way to go.
Chefs love to make savory dishes with butter, but at home, you may want to stick to oil when preparing your pan for sautéeing and cooking. Butter can easily brown and even burn if you're cooking at high heat, which may be the case when searing a piece of meat, sautéeing vegetables, or cooking down leafy greens.
Oil has less saturated fat than butter does which makes it a healthier choice if you are looking for something lower in calories and fat content. Additionally, oils such as olive oil contain heart-healthy monounsaturated fats that help reduce inflammation in your body.
You need a high heating point, so don't use olive oil or butter, which will burn and turn to smoke. Beef tallow (rendered beef fat) or lard (rendered pork fat) are both excellent choices! Remember to place the roast fat side down in the hot pan.
How do restaurants make prime rib so tender? The secret to restaurant-style prime rib is cooking the meat super slow at low temperatures. I recommend cooking prime rib at no higher than 200 degrees F. This cooks the meat very slowly, turning the fat into butter and rendering the proteins juicy and soft.
Because olive oil comes from a plant, it has unique health benefits from nutrients like polyphenols — which aren't found in butter. These polyphenols help make olive oil a more nutritious choice. Using butter every so often — or even a small amount each day — isn't likely to harm your health.
Toasted bread with olive oil helps the body absorb nutrients such as vitamins A, D, E, and K. Olive oil on toast is also a heart-healthy choice as the monounsaturated fats in olive oil reduce bad cholesterol. While it is a delicious snack on its own, there are a variety of ways of toasting bread with olive oil.
Butter gives French toast a deep richness and comforting quality, which are what we crave on mornings we sizzle this breakfast staple. To prevent burning or smoking, use a combination of butter and oil in the pan to cook the toast.
The spongy texture and moist flavor that oil creates can be a boon to certain recipes. Not to mention oil is cheaper and easier to work with. Butter will always provide superior flavor and that melt-in-your-mouth texture. In many recipes, combining the two gives the best of both worlds.
The healthiest oil to cook with is olive oil. It's versatile, being used in everything from frying to finishing. It's also rich in healthy fats, antioxidants, and polyphenols, all of which have shown protective effects against cancer and liver, heart, and neurodegenerative diseases (27, 28).
Pros: Margarine is much lower in saturated fat than butter, and it is made from vegetable oils, so it contains no cholesterol. Cons: Although it is lower in saturated fat, stick margarine still contains about the same amount of total fat and calories as butter.
So, refined oils can be used for deep frying because they don't break-down at lower temperatures. Well, it is certainly clear that Ghee is healthier than refined oils. Use ghee in moderation though, because it has lots of fats and calories. If you wish to discuss any specific problem, you can consult an Ayurveda.
Much to our surprise steak cooked with olive oil brought out the natural flavors of meat and helped maintain a desirable texture much better than butter.
Rub the prime rib with olive oil. In a small bowl, combine the salt, pepper, herbs and garlic powder. Rub this mixture onto the prime rib. Place the prime rib in a roasting pan, fat-side up, and insert an ovenproof meat thermometer so the tip is centered in the thickest part of the roast.
First, the extra layer of fat spread over the surface of the meat traps moisture so it can't escape as easily. This ensures a tender and juicy slice of roast beef. Second, browning compounds in the butter increase the flavor on the surface of the roast.
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