Do you cook with olive oil?

[Northerner]

Just wondering...............

Yes, on the whole

Yes, for everything

most of the time.

not virgin for cooking
god i dont fry and egg in it
blaurggh
Only if it wil noticeably add to the taste
are using mroe of it now dhis high cholesterol

savoury stuff generally, but sometimes the taste is too strong for me - i mix half and half with sunflower

sunflower is lighter
sesame oil has a nicer taste

prefer keeping extra virgin olive oil for stuff like vinaigrettes

I do.

But not to fry an egg.

extra virgin has too low a burning temperature to be useful in cooking, ime.

was that " the science bit"?
arf

Almost always.

cheeky fish

I do, and probably for frying an egg (almost never fry eggs, and use mix of butter + olive oil for making omellettes).

We use sunflower for baking, olive for regular cooking, extra virgin special for raw dressings, groundnut for high temp cooking (wok etc), sesame for flavouring.

I don't fry anything other than eggs really, so I use extra virgin for everything (sunflower for the eggs)

don't think you are supposed to, its a waste. can't remember exactly why, but heating it ruins it and so it should be kept for drizzling.

Extra Virgin on the salads
ordinary olive oil in marinades, tomato sauce etc
rapeseed or sunflower for frying, roasting or browning meat etc

Normal olive oil for coking, extra virgin for salads etc.

I thought you weren't supposed to cook with ev oil because of a low smoking point that makes it carcengenic (sp?)

yes

no, there is no point. Better to use sunflower oil.

We do mostly, apart from frying eggs. However, FIL has bought us a huge tub (is that teh right word?) and told me not to cook with it. It's EV, he says just for drizzling and dressings.

"there is no point"

huh?

there is no point to tomatoes either but I still use them.

oh dear - yes, there is a point in tomatoes - yes there is a point to olive oil, but why waste that lovely taste by frying with it ?!

Add it afterwards, dip your bread in it, make dressings & rub it in your skin to make it soft

A really good evolive oil will have delicious flavour that will diminish if you heat it. No point in cooking with it if you pay a fortune for it tbh. Ordinary oo is fine for all sorts of cooking.
However Rapeseed oil has similiar healthy properties as olive oil - ie it is a high oleic acid content and is low in saturated fat. And if you take the vaguely macrobiotic approach - rapeseed is native to our land and therefore is what we should be using.
I still prefer evolive oil for dressings though.

Oh and most relevently if you check your bottles of veg oil a lot of them are 100 percent rapeseed and a fraction of the price of oo.