Homemade cooking oil goes rancid faster?

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I don't bother mixing anything into the mist bottles I use for cooking spray! I just put some olive oil in one, olive and canola in another, and straight canola in another one. Mist bottles are very inexpensive at the dollar stores.

One spritz of oil on a pan is all you need and that is so much less than one calorie! It merely puts a skin of oil on the pan.

I would never put water in oil bottle I was going to mist on a hot skillet or any other hot surface. Water and oil spatter too much when they get hot!
 
So I have been using the 1 Cal Fry Light cooking spray but I have found out you can easily make your own which is convenient.

Looking around people say you can mix oil with liquid lecithin(sp?) which wasn't an option for me seeing as it's impossible to get it where I am. But on one website it says mix two tablespoons of cooking oil (I'm using rapeseed/canola) with 240ml of water.

So I mixed the oil with water as suggested, it needs a shake before I use it and it does appear to mix long enough for me to spray it on my pans, although water and oil isn't supposed to mix?! anyway... I stumbled across another website that says "Canola oil, as well as other oils and fats, don't encourage the growth of bacteria because they contain no water, which bacteria need in order to grow."

So I presume the shelf life of my cooking oil has been drastically reduced and I was wondering what anyone's thoughts on this were, if its a good idea to mix with water and try and use it up quickly?
 
Mixing oil and water is not smart when you are wanting ot cook at hu temps with it.

The oil will spit at you.

I agree witht eposter that said just use a sprit/spray bottle and give it one or 2 squirts. That is all you need and it is a lot less dangerous.
 
It shouldn't affect the shelf life at all because water doesn't go rancid. However, I don't see the point in mixing oil and water together, they separate shortly after shaking together and the water would just evaporate when cooking anyway. If I were you I would just stick some canola or olive oil in a spray bottle and just use that, there's no need to really make your own. If you are worried about the calories, you should know that water isn't going to reduce the calories in the oil anyway, nothing will. And a little oil, especially olive oil, is actually quite good for you!
 
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