Thursday, June 14, 2012

All-Natural Cooking Spray

Saw this pin a few weeks ago...homemade cooking spray.  I thought you would need one of those fancy pump oil-spray bottles (ie. Pampered Chef), but apparently you can do it with just a spray bottle and some water with the oil.

As I was reading the instructions on my no-name "Pam"-type spray, I saw the ingredients: Canola oil (okay), soy lecithin, water, soy fatty acids, isobutane, (what?), and propane (!!!).  Oh - "may contain milk and wheat."  Butane and propane?  Now I know that most of that probably evaprates, or whatever, but I'm still not comfortable with that going into my food.  And it is expensive - a can is 4 dollars.  So I tried the homemade stuff - so cheap, and so easy.


I grabbed a spray bottle I had brought from the dollar store a while ago - kind of ugly, but it works.  You mix 1 part oil (I used olive oil) to 5 parts water.  Shake and spray.  So easy, and took me 2 minutes.  I haven't tried it yet, but I'm looking forward to avoiding all those other chemicals!

Update: so far, I've tried it with waffles (works great), stir-fry (works great) and greasing a cake pan (not great at all)...
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 14, 2012 at 4:03 PM

    Wow - that looks so easy! I'm going to try this tonight!

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  2. AnonymousJune 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM

    curious to see how this turns out... I'm ALL in for making my own products rather than spending bookoos of $ ANYDAY!!

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    1. MaryaJune 15, 2012 at 8:11 AM

      Let me know how you like it! I'm curious if you can use it in ALL the same ways as the other sprays...haven't gotten around to trying them all out yet.

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  3. Hannah & RyanJune 23, 2012 at 5:33 PM

    I bought a pump spray bottle (I got it at Winners) - one you pump up and down a few times first - and fill it with straight olive oil. It sprays just like out of PAM type cans and is awesome - works great for everything I've tried, even muffins. :)

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