I always use olive oil for cooking. Do you?

Question

If you do, how much do you know about "olive oil"?
If you do not, then what do you use?

Btw, I bought small grape seed oil few weeks ago. It is very healthy stuff I heard.

Answer 1

It depends on what I am using the oil for. I use pure olive oil or canola oil if I will be using high heat cooking methods. I save the extra virgin olive oil to use in salad dressings & other uses where I want its flavor.

Answer 2

Olive oil is a great oil. I use it quite a lot. Now, as the "Mediterranean diet" has been proven very healthy, there is a lot of material on the health aspects of olive oil.
But I wouldn't use olive oil in baking buns, for instance. The taste is too distinctive. When I do not want a taste to come through, I use canola (rapeseed) oil. Today's canola oil has been greatly altered from the industrial oil of decades back. Now the rape/canola that is cultivated for human consumption has a very good lipid composition.

Answer 3

The best olive oil for cooking is from Portugal.
Make sure it's Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Brand
doesn't matter much but the higher priced
ones last longer.

Answer 4

You should always use extra virgin, first cold press olive oil. That is the healthiest, and IMO, the most flavorful.

I've heard (from a professional herbologist) that canola oil is better for you. I have not experienced this, as I find I have to use a lot more of it. I like the taste of olive oil better anyway.

Answer 5

Olive Oils are good for salads. When used for cooking (exposing to heat), it will have a harmful by-product.

Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is the best health food - it is known as Miracle Oil. While it may not be popular yet in the Western World due to Eco-Political restrictions (98% of Coconut are grown in Asia), so westerners protect their products with health as secondary factor.

Try to Google search Virgin Coconut Oil, you will find how health beneficial it is. BTW, Magic Johnson takes VCO to cure his AIDS.

Answer 6

Cooking sprays incorporate different stuff besides oil. organic olive oil is fit than the sprays. you additionally can fill a sprig bottle with olive oil and use it the comparable way you will possibly use a sprig. it may be 0 energy, too, through volume of oil used. whilst a product lists "0-energy", it relatively relies on the serving length. If the serving length and volume of fat consistent with serving are quite small, legally, they might label their product as "fat loose" or "0 energy".

Answer 7

I always use olive oil.My brother had a bypass about 15 years ago and the specialist told him to use olive oil cos it is the best for him

Answer 8

Olive oil takes away from the tast of things, I've tested this with many things and prefer to not add it to anything- except for making salad dressing.

Answer 9

Absolutely, cold pressed virgin olive oil is the best, and really adds something to the flavour of your foods.

Answer 10

I always use olive oil too as its healthier and tastes nicer than veg oil. I love using chilli oil though too, really useful in pasta dishes