Salad oil

Salad oil is actually a generic term refering to a variety of oil that you can use for a recipe. Many recipes written years ago often refer to salad oil. Lot’s of recipes in my grandmother’s recipe archives all call for this “salad oil”. Salad oil is another term for a light tasting vegetable oil. You can use oils like vegetable oil, corn oil, safflower oil, or even canola oil for salad oil. An extra virgin olive oil wouldn’t be a good choice for a salad oil as it has a lot of flavor to it. So next time when you wonder what is salad oil, you will know to pick up a light tasting vegetable oil.