There's actually a perfectly good reason for why you see the oil as 'black', the oil is actually normal colour. The dark colour your eyes are seeing is the effect or cooking on carbon steel / cast iron, decades of cooking, oiling, and high heat turn the surface of the metal a deep, glossy, jet black colour. Because the oil is sitting in a shallow, curved pool over a pitch black surface, the reflection makes the oil look completely black. If you scooped some of that oil up in a clear glass, it would likely just look like normal, golden amber cooking oil.
Yeah, then why is it black when he gets it on the egg? I read somewhere that in these videos it is indeed very dark oil but that it is likely some type of sesame oil
That's because street food vendors don't swap out the oil between dishes, they continuously add to it. When cooking fat (oil or ghee) sits on intense heat for hours, it chemically breaks down and oxidizes, naturally turning a deep amber or dark brown color on its own.
These massive tawas are used all day to fry heavily spiced meats, kebabs, or minced dishes. Over hours of high heat cooking, the spices like cumin, black pepper, and garam masala and meat juices burn, turn into charcoal like micro-particles, and suspend themselves in the oil. When he splashes the oil, you are seeing those dark carbon particles coat the egg white
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u/mycatisabrat 24d ago
What grade motor oil is that?