From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!bsg Newsgroups: net.cooks Title: Re: Hot Oil Article-I.D.: npois.1225 Posted: Wed Jun 9 12:36:51 1982 Received: Thu Jun 10 01:24:06 1982 References: ihuxl.163 I'm sure that works. If you're interested, however, in a Chinese cooking class I took a few years ago I was told to make hot oil in the same way, but using peanut oil and Chinese dried hot peppers. The peppers are used whole, and discarded after the oil is ready.