More Adelaide kitchens and producers are cooking without industrial seed oils, using olive oil, butter, tallow or coconut oil instead. This guide explains what these suppliers typically offer, how they sell, and what to ask before you buy. It also points to the local producers featured on this page.
Eyre Peninsula farm-gate producer of 100% grass-fed & grass-finished beef, pork and rendered grass-fed beef tallow (300g $20) — a single-ingredient seed-oil-free cooking fat. Farm pickup plus deliveries to Coffin Bay, Cummins, Tumby Bay, Port Lincoln and Adelaide.
Adelaide Hills brand rendering grass-fed, pasture-raised tallow from a local Adelaide Hills farm, processed in-house. Sells a food-grade Cooking Tallow (300ml) alongside a larger tallow skincare range (balms, body butter, lip balms). Facebook via facebook.com/share/18eK7ysN1c.
The Slow Food Kitchen is a wholefood breakfast and lunch cafe in Aldinga, cooking seasonal, nourishing meals that are 100% seed-oil-free using local, nutrient-dense ingredients, from house-made tortillas to porridge and burritos. Open 7am to 2pm daily except Tuesdays, with walk-ins welcome.
Chicken Bandits in Cowandilla fries its fried chicken, chips, burgers and wraps in beef tallow and olive oil, with no seed oils used. A dedicated gluten-free fryer caters to coeliacs, and the shop is open 7 days, with orders also available via Uber Eats and DoorDash.
Cellar door in McLaren Vale offering fine dining at Fiore, focused on organic, seasonal, local Italian-inspired produce, alongside casual lawn dining and pizza. All cooking is done with butter, ghee, duck fat, olive oil and coconut oil, with no seed oils used. Open Thursday to Sunday.
Kenny's at Churchill in Kilburn is billed as Australia's first entirely seed-oil-free fast food restaurant, frying homemade hot chips, chicken tenders and wings exclusively in beef tallow. The kitchen is also gluten-free and dairy-free, and the business is available via Uber Eats as well as its own shopfront.
Long-running Adelaide chicken shop known for award-winning chips, hand cut daily using potatoes from the Adelaide Hills and Gawler River, then double-fried in grass-fed beef tallow.
Evercream is an ice cream venue in Campbelltown, Adelaide, that avoids industrial seed oils, using beef tallow and olive oil instead.
Seed-oil-free simply means the food is made without industrial seed oils such as canola, sunflower, soybean, cottonseed or grapeseed oil. Instead, producers use fats like extra virgin olive oil, butter, ghee, beef or lamb tallow, duck fat, and coconut oil. Around Adelaide and its surrounds you'll find a range of businesses working this way, from farm-gate operations on the Eyre Peninsula and in the Adelaide Hills through to city fryers and dessert makers.
Common products include:
This page features producers including Korinya Farm Gate (Cummins, Eyre Peninsula), The Tallow Tribe (Adelaide Hills), The Slow Food Kitchen (Aldinga), Chicken Bandits (Cowandilla), Kenny's at Churchill (Kilburn), Evercream and Evercream Gelati (Campbelltown), Peppermint Ridge Farm Co (Rockleigh) and 190 Mile Roadhouse (Kingston SE). Check each listing for their current offerings, as menus and stock change.
Seed-oil-free producers in South Australia use a mix of channels:
If a producer runs a share arrangement (for example, a meat share or herd-share for dairy), read the terms carefully so you understand what you're paying for and how collection works.
Prices vary by producer, product and season, so treat the following as a rough guide only — always confirm current pricing directly with the supplier:
Products made with premium fats, pasture-raised meat or certified-organic ingredients usually sit at the higher end.
Look for transparency. A good seed-oil-free producer will tell you exactly what fats and oils they cook with. Ask which oil goes in the fryer, whether the same oil is used for everything, and whether any sauces, marinades or breadcrumbs contain seed oils.
Check certifications where claims are made. If a business advertises organic produce or ingredients, look for certification from bodies such as Australian Certified Organic (ACO) or NASAA. "Spray-free" is a common term for produce grown without synthetic sprays but isn't a certified standard, so ask the grower what it means in practice.
Read the reviews. Ratings and review counts give a sense of consistency and customer experience. On this page they range from newer farm-gate listings with no reviews yet through to well-established kitchens with hundreds of reviews. More reviews can indicate a longer track record, but a small, new producer can still be excellent — use reviews alongside your own questions.
Confirm production practices. For farm-gate meat and fats, ask how animals are raised and fed. For prepared foods, ask about the full ingredient list, not just the cooking oil.
A short conversation usually tells you whether a supplier's practices match how they market themselves. Because ingredients and menus change, confirm the current details directly before you buy.
Or read the full seed-oil-free foods guide, or browse all Adelaide producers.
It means the food is made without industrial seed oils such as canola, sunflower, soybean, cottonseed or grapeseed oil. Instead, producers use fats like extra virgin olive oil, butter, ghee, tallow, duck fat or coconut oil. Always ask a supplier to confirm what they use, including in sauces and batters.
Through farm gates on the Eyre Peninsula and in the Adelaide Hills, suburban kitchens and shopfronts, regional roadhouses, farmers market stalls, delivery or click-and-collect, and food co-ops. This page lists several producers across metro Adelaide and regional SA — check each listing for how they sell.
As a rough guide, rendered fats run about $10–$25 a jar, fried meals about $12–$28, pies and ready meals about $8–$20, and gelati about $6–$14. Farm-gate meat boxes commonly range from $150–$400. Prices vary by producer and season, so confirm directly.
No. Seed-oil-free refers to the fats used, not how ingredients are grown. If a producer also claims organic, look for certification from Australian Certified Organic (ACO) or NASAA. "Spray-free" isn't a certified standard, so ask the grower what it means for their produce.
Ask which oil or fat they cook and fry in and whether it's used across the whole menu, whether breadcrumbs, batters, sauces or dressings contain seed oils, how their meat and fat are sourced, whether produce is certified organic or spray-free, and how ordering and storage work.