From Coconut Oil:
We have already seen how money and propaganda from the soy oil industry eliminated long-established products from the U.S. market. I saw people lose weight stably when they had the habit of eating large amounts of tortilla chips fried in coconut oil, but those chips disappeared when their producers were pressured into switching to other oils, in spite of the short shelf life that resulted in the need to add large amounts of preservatives. Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, potato chip producers, and movie theater popcorn makers have experienced similar pressures.
I have wanted to eat chicharrones because it is pork skin, which has plenty of gelatin, but I don't because it's fried in PUFAs.
I have wanted to eat tortilla chips and nachos, but they're also fried in PUFAs.
It's really messy to make your own chicharrones, with oil splattering all over, that it's just not worth the effort if I wanted to make my own pork rinds (chicharrones) fried in coconut oil. With nachos, it might be easier but still there is effort involved in making your own masa from corn. Yet as Ray Peat had mentioned, the masa that goes into making corn chips are good because it has plenty of calcium.
I'm really toying with the idea of making my own chicharrones and nachos for the Peaty market. That would make it worth the trouble and effort. I probably will only sell it in the Philippines, just for the small subset of Peat-aware people.
If someone makes it available in the forum for you to order, would you be buying?
Probably in the US there are already some commercial makers of these products that I'm not aware of. But maybe not. Most commercial makers don't think any thing that says "saturated" has any mass market appeal, and really not worth going into. And they're probably afraid someone will sue them for causing their heart attacks and strokes, with many experts in the medical field who will testify against coconut oil.
But within the Ray Peat community, will there be enough of a market to justify a Peaty snack business?
We have already seen how money and propaganda from the soy oil industry eliminated long-established products from the U.S. market. I saw people lose weight stably when they had the habit of eating large amounts of tortilla chips fried in coconut oil, but those chips disappeared when their producers were pressured into switching to other oils, in spite of the short shelf life that resulted in the need to add large amounts of preservatives. Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, potato chip producers, and movie theater popcorn makers have experienced similar pressures.
I have wanted to eat chicharrones because it is pork skin, which has plenty of gelatin, but I don't because it's fried in PUFAs.
I have wanted to eat tortilla chips and nachos, but they're also fried in PUFAs.
It's really messy to make your own chicharrones, with oil splattering all over, that it's just not worth the effort if I wanted to make my own pork rinds (chicharrones) fried in coconut oil. With nachos, it might be easier but still there is effort involved in making your own masa from corn. Yet as Ray Peat had mentioned, the masa that goes into making corn chips are good because it has plenty of calcium.
I'm really toying with the idea of making my own chicharrones and nachos for the Peaty market. That would make it worth the trouble and effort. I probably will only sell it in the Philippines, just for the small subset of Peat-aware people.
If someone makes it available in the forum for you to order, would you be buying?
Probably in the US there are already some commercial makers of these products that I'm not aware of. But maybe not. Most commercial makers don't think any thing that says "saturated" has any mass market appeal, and really not worth going into. And they're probably afraid someone will sue them for causing their heart attacks and strokes, with many experts in the medical field who will testify against coconut oil.
But within the Ray Peat community, will there be enough of a market to justify a Peaty snack business?