Start Here — New to Seed Oil Free Cooking?
Welcome to The Foodie Kitchen New to Seed Oil Free Cooking? Start Here. The Foodie Kitchen publishes 200+ global recipes and guides for cooking without industrial seed oils — using butter, ghee, tallow, lard, coconut oil, and olive oil instead. Begin: How to Go Seed Oil Free → 1 Understand What Seed
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Start Here.
The Foodie Kitchen publishes 200+ global recipes and guides for cooking without industrial seed oils — using butter, ghee, tallow, lard, coconut oil, and olive oil instead.
Begin: How to Go Seed Oil Free →Understand What Seed Oils Are
The eight industrial seed oils — canola, soybean, sunflower, corn, safflower, cottonseed, grapeseed, and rice bran — are extracted from seeds using chemical solvents and high heat. They are high in omega-6 linoleic acid and became dominant in the food supply only in the last 60 years. They were not part of the human diet before the 20th century.
Learn the Ancestral Fats
Every world cuisine developed its own ancestral cooking fat before seed oils replaced them. Butter, ghee, tallow, lard, coconut oil, and olive oil are what your food was cooked in for thousands of years — and what The Foodie Kitchen uses in every recipe.
Stock Your Kitchen and Make a Plan
Going seed oil free starts in the kitchen. Replace the seed oils, know what to buy, and have a meal plan ready for the first week.
Pick a Cuisine and Start Cooking
The Foodie Kitchen covers global cooking in ancestral fats. Every recipe uses the fat that cuisine was originally built on — not a seed oil substitute.
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Our core guides
The ten guides the rest of the site builds on:
- Seed Oils 101: what seed oils are and how to cook without them
- Cooking fats compared: every traditional fat side by side
- Traditional fats guide: lard, tallow, ghee, butter and more
- What is tallow?: how to render beef tallow and cook with it
- What is lard?: leaf lard, rendering and baking with lard
- What is ghee?: how ghee is made and how to use it
- Tallow vs ghee: when to use each
- Best fat for frying without seed oils: tallow, lard, ghee and avocado oil compared
- Cooking fat smoke points: which fat for which heat
- Bone broth guide: bones, simmer times, troubleshooting and storage