By: lsayre On: Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:47 am
It turns out that (per Wikipedia) the smoke point of any given oil is appreciably below its flash point. For peanut oil the smoke point is 450 degrees, which is 100 degrees below its lowest listed flash point.
There are actually a broad range of mineral oils ranging form light to heavy, and the heavier ones tend to have increasingly higher flash points, so presumably higher smoke points as well. Mineral oil is a byproduct of the refining of crude oil.