Operation Manual

4 Cooking

4.1 Healthy cooking

Burning point of different types of oil

To ensure your food is fried as healthily as possible, Pelgrim recommends choosing the

type of oil according to the frying temperature. Each oil has a different burning point at

which toxic gasses are released. The below table shows the burning points for various

types of oil.

Oil Smoke point °C

Extra virgin olive oil 160 °C

Butter 177 °C

Coconut oil 177 °C

Canola oil 204 °C

Virgin olive oil 216 °C

Sunﬂ ower oil 227 °C

Corn oil 232 °C

Peanut oil 232 °C

Rice oil 255 °C

Olive oil 242 °C