Frying

[Matheous]

Can anyone tell me that it is incorrect for any technical reason to fry using olive oil?

[aly8166]

Am sure there's not. Isn't it used in Italian dishes all the time?

[Matheous]

Not being even able to do basic cooking- I'm certainly the last person to know anything on the subject.....The reason I asked the original question was because of the fact that I rustled up breakfast using olive oil and my wife argued that it is NOT intended for frying !!

Thanx 4 your answer though....

[tiger104]

I also use olive oil for frying, although i think what your wife means is kind of right, we don't get the benefits of the nutrients in olive oil once its heated, its meant to be beneficial drizzled over food like salads and whatever else.... its better to use olive oil that isn't extra virgin for frying, and use more expensive 'extra virgin' ones for dressing foods etc....but i watch all the cooking programmes with top chefs and they use olive oils for frying all the time.....

[wonderwoman1]

Being Italian, we use olive oil for everything. tiger104 is right though, we use regular olive oil for frying things and the extra virgin olive oil for pouring over things.

[marvan77]

http://www.oliveoilsource.com/cooking_olive_oi l.htm

[hammerman]

I'm sure people don't use it for frying because it's an expensive oil to use when vegetable oil is just as good.

[Figi]

I use extra virgin for frying all the time - there's a limit to the number of bottles I want in my cupboard.

[Mapeel]

I once saw an article at work about which fats are good for you. I can't remember exactly whaticle said but it did mention free radicals - (linked to causes of cancer) - olive oil does not respond well to the high heat required for frying and releases free radicals.
Olive oil is excellent on raw food though

[shaneystar2]

You can use what you like !!
I use regular olive oil for frying...garlic ...onions etc but I wouldn't dream of frying egg and bacon in it !
It can burn at a very high heat which is why you see see chefs add butter to it sometimes .

The International Olive Oil Institute recommends using pure olive oil for frying, since the flavor of extra virgin olive oil tends to break down at frying temperatures, making the added expense a waste.
Having said that EV olive oil will add more flavour to what you are frying ..but I still like my egg fried in sunflower oil !
Have a look here
http://www.internationaloliveoil.org/tm/canada /askus.asp?lang=english#10

[Matheous]

Thank you all - you have been most informative......

[JamesEverton]

shaneystar2, I think that chefs tend to add oil to butter to stop the butter burning, not the other way around.

[etlcnes]

Have heard that frying with it 'spoils' the oil i.e you loose the flavour of the oil so it is best to use veggie oil for frying - that said I always use olive oil!

[Matheous]

According to the link kindly provided by marvan77 -that is not the case....