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Olive oil is actually bad for you?

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Olive oil is good, but I like butter better. Some people prefer lard, or coconut oil, but I think Butter is the best, and also its the healthiest.
 
Yeah, we have butter and coconut oil around also.

It's just variable with what we are making I guess.

I do not think we've had corn oil, other than pre made products, in the house in ages.
 
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slag said:
When cooking, should you use EVOO or just regular OO?

I went to world market and all they had was EVOO. I wanted regular OO damnit!
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Depends. Extra virgin has a stronger flavor. There's things I think aren't the best with that flavor. I use both depending on what I'm cooking.
 
Don't buy italian olive oil, dumbies, it's almost all fake. Buy Californian, because California isn't mobbed up to the gills, like Naples and Sicily.
 
"A wave of fat goes through your blood stream"

um... that's the idea of nutrients... they go into your blood stream... when you


eat them
 
DixyCrat said:
"A wave of fat goes through your blood stream"

um... that's the idea of nutrients... they go into your blood stream... when you


eat them
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I was thinking the same thing.

I'll say this... this guy is about as scientific as Morgan Spurlock. You're telling me that if I eat 4000 calories at McDonald's a day that I will get fat? No kidding?

The reality here is that there are foods that do more harm than good. Olive oil isn't really one of them. But... if you eat 20 tablespoons of it on your salad... different story.

Yes... oil is fat. This isn't breaking news. It's calorie dense. But that simply means you should use it in moderation. If you eat 4000 calories of carrots every day, you're going to get just as fat as if you were eating oil... and you'll probably turn orange too.

This is not science. It's just fact. Eating more calories than you burn in a day leads to fat deposits, which contribute to heart disease.
 
lxskllr said:
The 10L box($175) looks interesting for routine cooking. That's roughly twice the price of cheap Italian oil. I like the idea of buying American.
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Especially because the vast majority of Italian and Greek imported oils aren't actually olive oil, but adulterated with grapeseed and other cheaper types.

I think it's something like 90-95% of those oils. THe industry is actually overrun by Mafia and Camorra.

The stuff that comes out of CA is as good as any you can find.
 
JSt0rm said:
life is for the living and it is fleeting. Enjoy it.
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Totally agree! I've said it multiple times, I'd rather go out in my 70s with a blazing coronary, having enjoyed my life and some nice food/drink, than live into my 80s+, eating grass and tofu, ending up blind, incontinent, and senile.

Vegans strike me as whiny, self-righteous, miserable people that won't be satisfied until everyone is as miserable as they are.

All things in moderation, and sometimes even moderation 🙂
 
Link to where its a known fact that the olive oil industry is overrun by the mafia. That's the first I've ever heard of this. Everyone should know that their olive oil isn't pure if they'd just read the label.
 
FerrelGeek said:
Totally agree! I've said it multiple times, I'd rather go out in my 70s with a blazing coronary, having enjoyed my life and some nice food/drink, than live into my 80s+, eating grass and tofu, ending up blind, incontinent, and senile.

Vegans strike me as whiny, self-righteous, miserable people that won't be satisfied until everyone is as miserable as they are.

All things in moderation, and sometimes even moderation 🙂
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Both my parents lived into their 90's. They certainly didn't eat twigs and berries. But neither were they overweight. Really life is a crap shoot. You never know.
 
TheGardener said:
Both my parents lived into their 90's. They certainly didn't eat twigs and berries. But neither were they overweight. Really life is a crap shoot. You never know.
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Might get hit by a bus tomorrow. Living well is more important than living long. In fact, living long is valueless.
 
Linux23 said:
Link to where its a known fact that the olive oil industry is overrun by the mafia. That's the first I've ever heard of this. Everyone should know that their olive oil isn't pure if they'd just read the label.
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lxskllr said:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=olive+oil+fraud&t=canonical
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business

Yes: Olive Oil is more lucrative than cocaine. 😀

The label won't tell you anything, because there really hasn't been a standard set to what defines olive oil; more specifically virgin or extra virgin.

Those standards are based on "% acidity," and nothing more. Nearly all of the olive oils for a decade or more now, shipped from the Big 3: Italy, Greece, Spain, are completely adulterated. The % acidity in virgin or extra virgin can technically come from any source. And even then the factors (when it was measured during the time of production, standards of testing) by which the acidity was measured and reported are never reported and never known; yet of course those very much determine the actual acidity.

Basically: Never ever ever buy the major brands from these countries. Those are the brands that dominate the market, anyway. (Filippo, Colavita, etc)

Safest bet is to only ever buy US produced Olive Oil.

Another secret: that "balsamic vinegar" you are buying? Most likely just very young red-wine vinegar with some flavor additives. But this one is easy to figure out: If you are paying less than $5 or $10 per ml (yes: milliliter), then it really isn't aceto balsamico. But, eh...that fake stuff isn't all that bad, anyway. :\

Plus, who wants to pay something like $300 for 15ml of vinegar?
 
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zinfamous said:
Another secret: that "balsamic vinegar" you are buying? Most likely just very young red-wine vinegar with some flavor additives. But this one is easy to figure out: If you are paying less than $5 or $10 per ml (yes: milliliter), then it really isn't aceto balsamico. But, eh...that fake stuff isn't all that bad, anyway. :\

Plus, who wants to pay something like $300 for 15ml of vinegar?
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Agree on the price. I buy cheap balsamic, and I'm happy with that. I try to limit my expensive consumables to whisky.
 
I cook and bake always in olive oil. But when used in moderation it is not an issue. And i learned that olive oil is better to cook in than using butter or lard.
Swallowing a liter of olive oil might not be a good idea. But then again , consuming less than 1% fat for a prolonged period of time will make you very sick as well. As usual, the truth is in the middle.
 
William Gaatjes said:
I cook and bake always in olive oil. But when used in moderation it is not an issue. And i learned that olive oil is better to cook in than using butter or lard.
Swallowing a liter of olive oil might not be a good idea. But then again , consuming less than 1% fat for a prolonged period of time will make you very sick as well. As usual, the truth is in the middle.
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It may be better for you, but it's hard to beat butter, lard, and duck fat for taste.
 
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