Thank your lucky stars if you know the difference between vegetable shortening, lard, butter, and oil. And if you don't, ...

you can keep calm and bake on even if you run out of shortening or butter. Yes, you can swap out vegetable oil for shortening in most baking recipes, especially those that call for melted shortening.

Since it's made from vegetable oil, it can also easily be substituted for oil in many capacities. The first way you can use shortening is probably the most common use for your cooking oils ...