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What qualifies as "shortening"?
This may seem like a goof-ball question, but I'm more of a chef than a baker, and I've always wondered: When a baking recipe calls for "shortening", what exactly do they mean? What qualifies? Vegetable oil? Crisco? I know it's not just plain old butter, as I've seen recipes that call for one part butter, one part shortening. Thanks!
For a "top contributor", you sure are rude. And apparently, you don't know as much as you think.
Chef, as defined by dictionary.com:
–noun
1. the chief cook, esp. in a restaurant or hotel, usually responsible for planning menus, ordering foodstuffs, overseeing food preparation, and supervising the kitchen staff.
2. any cook.
Look it up before assuming that you know the correct definition. Cooking or the term "cook" is more of a verb, as in, to cook something.
Usually I am quite nice, but it annoys me when other people are rude for no reason, especially when they are in the wrong. And I'm just not in the mood for it today.
PS- perhaps, before making sly insults to others, you should look are your own comment for errors.
7 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
shortening is a hard hydrogenated vegetable oil; lard is animal fat;butter if used in part is used for flavor. sometimes liquid oil can be substituted but if recipe like in cookies call for blending the fat with sugar then a shortnig is called for Crisco is fine but it is a brand name and comes in many other names.Sometimes only butter should be used like in shortening bread . Lard makes flakier pastery especially good for meat pies.
- 1 decade ago
You can use lard, or the name brand is Crisco.
I am not a "chef" but I must say a Chef would now for sure the difference. You must have meant to say you are more of a Cook than a baker.
- Robert SLv 71 decade ago
Shortening like Crisco is hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans-fat).
You can substitute butter, margarine, or vegetable oil; they do the same. They will each affect the taste differently.
- 4 years ago
Vegetable is not just a medical term, it is a cooking term. So the qualifications to become a vegetable are not very coherent, which is why we have cases like the tomato: people argue both ways.
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- ?Lv 44 years ago
My spouse and i favor vegetables but like fruits that we use in salad such as tomatoes and avocados.
