Gefen Pure Cottonseed Oil 48 oz Bottle, Great For Frying!

Oil was light, kosher for Passover, and very useful.

Just as expected

We made beignets & fried them in this oil. They came out perfect! Quick easy purchase & fast shipping. Arrived undamaged & made the perfect ending to a tasty meal.

Used to eradicate roaches. Mixed with clove oil.Slowly bugs are disappearing.

A Must For Frying Beignets!

After a recent trip to New Orleans I got it in my head to master the art of beignet-making. A famous purveyor of beignets stated they use cottonseed oil for theirs. A frustrating hunt through the aisles of three local grocery stores plus a couple of natural food stores revealed that cottonseed oil is apparently a rarity. Amazon to the rescue. I believe it's rather expensive, but it was worth it for the authenticity. I have to say that the beignets (took a few tries to master) taste fine but I'm anxious to try with something more readily available. I don't know if it will drastically affect the taste. I read a bit on cottonseed oil and it's not particularly good for you. Beignets aren't exactly a health food, though, so, no worries! :)

IMHO:I ordered 2 bottles of Gefen Oil, but the seller sent something NOT labeled Gefen, but with a different label, "nut-ola." Now what gets into people to do that??? It may be the same thing, however. Nut-ola's label says, "KOSHER FOR PASSOVER." By checking "nut-ola" on Amazon, I found that if you are willing to buy 6 bottles of 96 ounces of cottonseed oil at $65 (with shipping), that 6 bottle price is much more economical per ounce. I dropped my rating from 5 stars to 3 for the switch in product.Vegetable oils have been used as insecticides on plants. This makes sense if one recalls that 1) insects breath through body holes and that 2) oil clogs those holes & suffocated insects. The insect I am interested in killing is the mite. Try spraying WD-40 on a fly. They used to sell Gulf Spray (like Gulf oil company, gasoline etc.) as an insecticide, but I haven't seen it since the 1950's.A dot edu agricultural site reports that of vegetable oils, Cottonseed oil is the most toxic to insects. I don't know if they were leaving out of consideration Clove Oil, which has been reported as toxic to mites.At any rate, I ordered this Gefen oil because I thought it was pure cottonseed oil, not winterized, not having things removed to prevent solids from appearing in the oil in cold weather. But I don't know what I actually got.Dogs have mites, Demodex, which cause demodectic mange. One folk treatment has been to douse the poor dog in motor oil! Another possibility is vasoline petroleum jelly, which would cause diarrhea to the dog if he licks it up & swallows it. (Would anyone put a dog's head in colonial American stocks?) It seems kinder to the dog, if you want to suffocate mites with oil to try vegetable oil. However, it may be difficult to succeed this way, since you may kill all the mites, but their eggs will hatch and more mites will appear. To oil a dog every night (long enough to suffocate mites?) every day for a month might work, but would be technically difficult.At any rate, I plan to coat my puppy's legs at night with 75 % cottonseed oil (with 25 % clove oil mixed in) and see if it helps him. Then I will use a little paint brush to coat the mange-spots on the dog's coat. (I have been giving the puppy Ivermectin, a drug, but have not seen any visible results yet from that.)BTW, Cottonseed oil used to be common on grocery store shelves - probably very cheap too. But I could not find it locally on a grocery shelf. Apparently cottonseed oil has fallen out of favor for human consumption as it is not pure polyunsaturated nor big in the Omega 3 content, so far as I know. But if I cause insects to have bad health with this, it won't burden my conscience.Now what this has to do with Passover, is beyond me. I don't recall cottonseed oil in the Exodus story. Did ancient Egyptians plant cotton?So any positive Star rating is for insecticide purpose, not for eating. By leaving in everything (non-winterized) this oil may be better at killing insects. But are Gefen & nut-ola non-winterized?I would not recommend cottonseed oil as a regular part of human diet. Of course Passover comes only once a year -- so if you like the taste of cottonseed oil, why not enjoy on occasion?-----------As to killing mites on dogs (mange), my research indicates that mites go through 5 stages, from egg to adult. Apparently the mites only come out on the surface of the skin at night (not liking light) to mate. There are only 12 hours maximum between adult stage & new eggs laid in the follicles. Apparently only adults ever come to the surface of the skin during the ~25 day life cycle of the mite, from egg to adult to new eggs. It must be that during the time when earlier stages of the mite (larva, etc.) live deep down in the follicle, even if the surface is sealed they can breath air in the follicle, like a man would breath in a walk-in refrigerator after the door closed him in. So I don't know how long one would have to seal the follicle with oil or grease to suffocate mites. Moreover, on YouTube one can view experiments of putting mites in alcohol, peroxide, clorox, ammonia, windex, & vinegar for 30 minutes -- the little buggers are still alive & kicking after 30 minutes.Thus it appears to me that to kill mites on a dog with cottonseed oil (even mixed with clove oil) would require having the dog coated all night long every night for a month. BTW, perhaps there might be a way to bath a dog's body with light at night to kill mites with light.POSTSCRIPT 1/2 A YEAR LATE: SUCCESS! BUTCH WAS HEALED!I mixed clove oil 25 percent with cottonseed oil 75 percent & used a little paint brush to oil the mange spots on my puppy every night (after pitch dark arrived). In about a month the mange was cured. Of course puppies often recover spontaneously with no treatment, and I don't know what would have happened if I had done nothing. The Ivermec did not cause the spots to go away after a month of that treatment. I did continue Ivermec while coating with oil -- in fact I continued for a couple of months after the spots went away.

Definitely the flavor I was looking for to use on a salad for just an oil and vinegar mixture