How often do you cook? What do you usually cook? Do you have a business that requires cooking oil? These are the questions to ask yourself if you are considering buying cooking oil in bulk.

When it comes to cooking food, you need to know how much cooking oil is required in the food. If you’re cooking a sauce-based dish, such as a pasta sauce, stew, or curry, the recipe will often tell you to sauté the onions in cooking oil before adding meat or vegetables. The reason for this request is to prevent anything from sticking to the bottom of the pot. How many times do you make a sauce-based dish in a week?

Frying is probably the main cooking technique that will consume all the oil for frying. It is best not to reuse the oil for frying, but you can dispose of it sensibly through a used oil collector. If you fry food on a daily basis, you may need to stock up on five to ten liters of oil for frying.

Bakeries will use approximately one cup of cooking oil per confectionery product. If a bakery receives ten orders a day, it will consume two and a half liters in total at the end of the day. A bakery would use it to make a variety of cakes, muffins, and desserts every day. A home can require much less. How often do you bake?

Sautéing is a unique way of cooking that doesn’t use as much cooking oil as you might imagine. A stir fry usually contains soy sauce, fish oil, or regular cooking oil. Because cooking oil gets extremely hot, it is good to use a wok for vegetables and meat. Since you are constantly stirring your food, you won’t need much of this ingredient. Also, the dish requires that you eventually add broth to the stir fry.

So how often should you stock up on cooking oil?

If you have a restaurant or bakery, always have about four two-liter bottles in the pantry. The oil will not go bad and because it is used so often, you don’t have to think about it will expire soon.

Households should have a single two-liter bottle in their pantry. It is not often that you use this ingredient because you only cook once a day. You can also use it to preserve foods such as onions or pickles.