I've been using coconut oil for a lot of frying -- i like the taste, though it isn't strong, and I've heard of the health benefits and believe in them. I use butter, lard, and save the scraps of beef fat from other cuts to fry potatoes with. When I need an oil i use olive oil or organic peanut oil. Grapeseed, I think, is fine, too. The whole "unhealthy" saturated fats myth is a tragedy of an ill informed media parroting factoids told them by so-called health groups -- such as the American Heart Association, American Medical Association, and nutritionists and doctors who get their information from these groups who have an axe to grind and money to be made from the fallacy. There's a little book called The Queen of Fats, by Allport, that explains the history and reasons we get such an unbalanced diet from vegetable oils chock full of Omega 6's, and have been scared away from the Omega-3s in saturated fats. Butter, lard, tallow, suet, all are good fats if they come from properly raised animals. Since we've been afraid to eat them, we've developed many illnesses that didn't use to bother us -- obesity, hyptertension, alzheimers, bone loss, ADD and, perhaps most ubiquitous, diabetes. The list goes on. I never use canola oil, as it is hybridized from the rape seed from which motor oil is made and which is extremely toxic. In addition, it, as well as corn, soybean and cottonseed oils have paved the center of the US with chemically fertilized and pesticided fields that are poisoning soil that could grow healthy foods, and getting into the water and poisoning the gulf of Mexico. Most of these fields are owned by industrial farmers and the farmers are getting fat on subsidies from the American Farm Bill. So. I never use those oils, either. Sorry to go off on a tirade, here, but the subject is dear to my heart. In more ways than one.