Guide

Yes, you can fry food with avocado oil, and refined avocado oil handles high heat well when you stay under its smoke point.

Yes, you can get food poisoning from chicken if germs survive cooking or raw juices reach ready-to-eat food.

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Yes, you can fry food in avocado oil, and its high smoke point makes it fit for steady pan-frying and many deep-fry batches.

Yes, you can fry frozen food, but brush off ice, keep oil steady, cook each piece through.

Yes, you can fry food with coconut oil, yet keep heat below its smoke point and pick refined oil for high-heat frying.

Yes, you can fry food in coconut oil if you stay under its smoke point and pick refined coconut oil for hotter frying.

Yes, you can freeze hot food after it cools down fast, but start cooling within 2 hours so it spends less time in the danger zone.

Yes, freezing warm food is ok if you cool it fast in shallow portions so it leaves 140–40°F within 2 hours.

Freezing food in tupperware is safe when the container is freezer-safe, food is cooled first, and you leave headspace.