[xoxomcm]

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what if the ingredient says use vegetable oil, and u used not vegetable oil?
what would happen?
would the food taste the same? or different? HOW different?

[michilatte]

it usually doesn't make a difference, unless the food needs to be chilled or something, and you used lard instead of vegetable oil. In that case, the texture is probably not going to turn out right.

[Tranb3rry]

The flavor might be a bit off because oil is saturated, meaning it's liquid and obviously has a more 'wet' sort of feeling than solids (unsaturated fats) like lard/butter/margarine...I'm not sure exactly what it is, but unsaturated fats add more flavor. >w<

[x0ny]

Dif oil/fat have dif melting point, dif smoking point, dif flavor. Some are neutral flavor, some are sweet, some are very strong. unsaturated fat tend to taste stronger because it tends to coat the mouth alot more, I'd have to pull out my text book to tell you why but thats the simple explaination of it.

[xxs0hyun]

The flavor might be a bit off because oil is saturated, meaning it's liquid and obviously has a more 'wet' sort of feeling than solids (unsaturated fats) like lard/butter/margarine...I'm not sure exactly what it is, but unsaturated fats add more flavor. >w<

Not to be off topic, but I think you've got them switched; oils are unsaturated, while lard and butter are saturated.

In answer to the original question, vegetable oils make baked goods moister. It also depends what kind of oil is used; most people use canola oil for general baking because it doesn't impart much flavor. Olive oils are considered too strong in flavor for some recipes. But butter and oil can be substituted for one another with no drastic difference.