Do You Use Olive Oil for Cooking?

I use Fillippo Bento Classico olive oil just for my frying pan when cooking eggs as I like the taste of It. Fried eggs, omelette etc. Just enough so the eggs don't stick to the pan then when its done. I actually tip the left over onto the eggs while on the plate. Or on a slice of baguette with tomato Instead of butter.

I use Extra Virgin Olive oil. Lucky, I don't seem to go through it so fast as it is so expensive nowadays. I used to use Filippo Berio make until it got too expensive. Now it's whatever store own brand I'm ordering from. Never used sunflower oil; I do remember my mum using that a lot in the 80s and 90s. Lard was used in the 70s and 80s and along with beef dripping.

Yes we do use it. Its healthier for you to use then other fats such as butter. I try to not use loads of oil when cooking.

However we use butter when camping as its easier to store then oil.

I used to always use olive oil but it has become so expensive that I try to avoid using it most of the time. I use rapeseed or vegetable oil but have just started finding out about the different temps that oils work best at. I also currently have an oil which is 50% rapeseed and 50% olive oil, it doesn’t taste as nice as olive oil, and I wouldn’t use it for things like salad etc, but it’s far cheaper and cooking with it is ok.

I mainly use olive oil with tuna but I do cook with it sometimes as you get a nice flavour. Most things I dry fry

Since my husband had a heart attack this year, I have cooking with Extra Virgin olive oil for most of my cooking, or light olive oil for salad or stir fry. From research, olive oil is completely cholesterol-free and has so many health benefits too. No doubt it's more expensive, but the health benefits is immense.

I use Extra Virgin for dressings or for mixing with Balsamic vinegar to dip bread in, but generally fry with ordinary olive oil - sometimes with a little butter - if I need oil at all. We recently had friends stay with us, and they asked how my fried breakfast eggs were the best they'd had. It was simply olive oil.

If I'm cooking a roast, whether in the air fryer or oven, I use lard.

I use it all the time and here are the reasons why

Extra virgin olive oil is a particularly abundant source of polyphenols, natural bioactive compounds with antioxidant properties that are found in plant foods like fruits, veggies, and olives. Polyphenols benefit health, in part, because they combat oxidative stress—a type of stress within the body that damages lipids, proteins, and DNA in a way that contributes to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia. Two abundant polyphenols present in olive oil are hydroxytyrosol and oleocanthal, which have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, cancer-fighting, neuroprotective, and antimicrobial properties. 

1. It strongly promotes cardiovascular health.

Olive oil is considered heart-healthy for (many) good reasons. In the frequently cited PREDIMED study, people who ate a Mediterranean-style diet that included 4+ tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil per day had a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease, and their combined risk for heart attack, stroke, and death from heart disease

Can't stand olive oil myself, but I've had to use it when cooking for other people in the past. I don't even like the smell of it.

I think virgin olive oil is more likely to burn and be a bit toxic. The standard olive oil has blended in other oils I think to make it better for frying etc. I try to keep the temperature low when using virgin olive oil but forget sometimes. I think the minimum smoke point for virgin olive oil is 190 degrees centigrade so you should try to keep to 170 degrees or less for safety. I know I've failed to do that on occasion.

I don't like it, it smells and tastes weird