Prepper question--Healthiest cooking oil with longest shelf life?

...and quite healthy to consume.

Nothing to add other than this is A GREAT post. I love posts like these. OP thank you for bringing this topic up.

Drew

Coconut oil is mighty handy as if you have it on hand, you can mix it with cocoa and a liquid sweetener like maple or birch syrup and make chocolate candy.

Coconut oil is a natural germicidal and is painless when applied so sure would treat a troubling wound. Plus it pull stains from teeth and then sharply reduces mouth irritation from bleeding gums. It will kill that bacteria and Strep mutants can deposit on heart valves so dental care and heart disease are entwined.

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Peanut oil is the only oil needed for cooking.

Love coconut oil. But, as I mentioned, 6 month shelf life.

Agreed, lard.

Our ancestors ate more nuts as that was a lipid source that lasted. So the typical ubiquitous one is acorns as hardly anyone harvests them and hickory nuts similarly don't typically get harvested. But doing so is going to impact your squirrel hunting and snaring, right?

The indigenous would either bury them in riverbanks and so slowly leach out the tannins or boiling with many rinses to eliminate it faster. You can steam a small amount fairly quickly. Don't ever do this over a porcelain sink as it will stain it something fierce. You will never get that scrubbed out.

Most likely this strategy would keep your family alive that and maple or birch syrup. That is sugar for your blood glucose and protein and lipids.

Black walnut husks have iodine in them and you would sorely need it as you wouldn't get it in salt. And pregnant ladies without iodine get babies with cretinism.

Those husks produce a black dye which would be essential for soldiers' clothing. To get dye to "fix" you use a mordant like salt or urea.

Those husks in water have a chemical called jugalone and that makes worms suffocate so that is how they would get a bunch instead of digging for them. It also was used by the indigenous to get fish as it interferes with their till respiration.

Never ever ever plant a black walnut near most other plants as it inhibits their growth. That will mess up an entire garden.

Our ancestors were smart people who were practical and wrote stuff down and taught their children to have some way to survive.

They could not just buy stuff at Walmart. They might only go into town twice: in spring when the snows melt and they were low on everything and after the harvest when they sold crops and livestock. Otherwise they didn't have the money. They would barter and cut deals to pay at these times.

Excellent post.

I learned this all the ahrd way with a giant pecan tree in my back yard.

Tried planting some pine trees. Dead in a couple months.
Tried planting some palm trees. Dead in a couple months.
Planted a small garden. It was a race to see what could die the fastest. :)

Finally looked it up and learned about juglones.

Wax Myrtle makes juglones also, so when I planted that, it did fine, as did an oak tree I planted back there. The pecan tree is slowly dying.

I guess all nut trees make juglones, used as a sort of chemical warfare by the plants to kill their competition for soil and sun space in the wild.

SO STUPID

None of this crap has anything to do with edible oil.