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But... it'll most work, right?
Hear me out: given a choice between running the engine completely dry of oil, and using vegetable oil, which would be worse?
The vegetable oil is going to gum things up. I guess you're looking at an engine replacement either way.
Given a choice between being impaled on a rusty fence and being shot, which would be worse?
Yup.
May the machine gods have pity on your bearings.
@Kecessa pointed us to a video of Project Farm checking it, and it turns out soy bean vegetable oil worked great, except in very cold conditions:
https://youtu.be/sbPxLm21gek
So, not so dumb. As long as she gets an oil change well before winter, she, and the engine, will probably be just fine.
A lawnmower and a car use very different oils and running something for a short time is very different than under loads for extended periods of time.
It is dumb to use cooking oils in a car engine.
Project farm tried it!
https://youtu.be/sbPxLm21gek
That's freaking awesome! Looks like what she was doing wasn't so silly after all!
This one trick the Big Engine Oil companies don't want you to know about!