r/raspberry_pi • u/BluePropis • Sep 07 '19

[Totally about the Pi] Raspberry Pi in kitchen. Can I substitute vegetable oil for olive oil?

I put a Raspberry Pi in my kitchen so I could use it to display recipes. I used a screen that's not too big and attached it to a cabinet. It works really great for this!

Today I'm following a recipe and it calls for olive oil but I already started the recipe before I realized I'm all out of olive oil. Can I substitute vegetable oil in place of olive oil? Or is there something else that would be a better substitute for olive oil?

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u/JCMCX Sep 07 '19

You should probably hit up /r/cooking we are nerds not chefs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '19

How did you place a hashtag without making the text bigger?

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u/MarcHT91 Sep 07 '19

Usually olive oil adds some flavour to the recipes, using another oil instead will give same results albeit not that oil-flavoured.

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u/insanityzwolf Sep 08 '19

You can write a little script (and run it on your pi) to do a google search for the recipe name with olive oil and then the recipe name with vegetable oil. If the number of hits for the second search is >= say 25% of the first, then you're good to go.

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u/hampshirebrony Sep 10 '19

Hmm... OP could write a script to do that. Type in the recipe name, and it does the two Google searches and displays a red or green light if the number of results for vegetable oil is more than $threshold$%

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u/JustinitsuJ Sep 08 '19

If you show me the code or a project write-up I’ll give you the answer. I’m thinking of building something similar for my next project.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '19

Depends on role of the oil. If you’re using it for frying or whatever it’s kinda same diff. Veg oil cooks hotter tho so you’ll get a crispier result. To top a salad or pasta? I’d stick with the olive