/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13692362
Wrong. Extra virgin olive oil has a low smoke point and should not be used for cooking. You use it to make dressings or just pour it on your food after it is cooked. Refined olive oil, aka "Extra Light Tasting" olive oil has a high smoke point and is great for sauteeing and shallow frying. Pic related.

>>9981409
I'm not the Anon to whom you replied, but olive oil actually has one of the highest smoke points. The extra virgin stuff burns easily, but the highly refined stuff is far and away the cheapest of the high performance searing oils.

>>9070723
>>9070728

I posted about this in another thread. Highly refined, i.e. cheap "extra-light tasting" olive oil has one of the highest smoke points available. The high quality stuff is what smokes.

>>9066525
>people reckon don't use olive oil it's too shit but who cares

The "use vegetable / peanut oil instead of olive oil when searing" meme is crap. While that is true for the high priced, full flavor extra-virgin stuff, the highly refined olive oil, especially the stuff labeled "extra-light tasting" has a higher smoke point than everything except the boutique oils like Avacado or Grapeseed.