How Italians actually Buy Olive Oil

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[cybermex]

I have to disagree with one part. We produce our own oil in italy. If the oil is stored correctly it doesnt matter if its even 2 years old. Buy diffrent oils for diffrent usage. Dont use really young oils for cooking. Use them for salads ect.

[SeshwaChickenKebab]

Another tip: in Italy we use olive oil for whatever purpose you use it for, there is an olive oil better for cooking (sweet or or more acidic), oil for topping on top of pizza (sweeter) and oils that are better for salads (mix) etc. Not just one for everything.

[alir]

In Spain We also do this type of differentiation, but also with the variety of olives, picual, arbequina, hojiblanca, etc. Each one has a different aroma and flavor. For example, I use picual for salads, arbequina for cooked dishes, etc... Olive oil is like wine.

[ernesthemingway]

Every year i go to my grand father village in tuscany and buy 15 liters of fresh squeezed extra virgin olive oil. I rarely buy it from the supermarket. It costs me about 14€ / liter but worth every drop, i use it for everything even cooking. Best cooking is done with best ingredients.

[mayorc]

Despite they seem to be very high-quality Sicilian EVO oils if you can just get a filled canister directly from oil farmers, it is better and in the end, you will also save extra money.

[joaomarcellomacedoleme]

It depends if are going to eat it straight away or you are going to heat it, every type has a different burning temperature. Extra virgin has one of the lowest smoke temperatures.

[adriano]

Extra virgin olive oil means more than one thing:
1) Olives collected in their season exclusively from the tree and not from the ground;
2) Cold pressed the same day they were harvested.

The olio di sansa also known as just “olive oil” is the re-pressed waste of the extra virgin olive oil.

If you want to buy like a pro then you buy single origin extra virgin olive oils from Italy, Spain, Greece.

[wearethenewmalearmy]

extra virgin means first press. it means its not been mechanically pressed over and over. That is called olive oil.

[alessandroolivieri]

Two extra tip: IGP is the lesser version of DOP, so the differences in prices for same regions IGP and DOP EVO Oils. Second, always look at where the olives where harvested/produced. You can make 100% Italian IGP Oil without using Italian olives, which will result in lesser quality. DOP prevents this, because in order to have a DOP stamp all the phases of production AND harvesting has to be performed in the specific area of the DOP.
Final bonus tip: different regions of Italy taste different! Different blend of olives will results in different taste of the oil, so try them out before saying 100% you don't like it or don't expect that a Sicilian Oil taste the same as a Tuscan one.

[paponeable]

Oho MG…
Extra vergin doesn’t means much if we don’t look carefully to few things. it’s related to its level of acidity which is the first thing you should look at. Second the provenance of the olives.

Then there are multi cultivar and mono cultivar.
The short expiring date doesn’t tell any quality…
And many, many more factors…
Btw let’s just bare in mind that in order to produce it the costs to the producers are very high! Then there are good seasons and bad seasons… Also typically an olive tree produces any other year…
No way you can possibly aspire to a good olive oil if you’re not spending in Italy at least 10-12€ per liter…
Keep in consideration the shipping, the money that everyone has to rightfully earns to market it across the ocean…
A simple way would be to keep in
mind the crystallization temperatures of a good product: it crystallizes at around 44-46 F
It freezes at around 39-40 F
If not is diluted with other oils, or is the second press, or it is obtained with “ Sansa “ etc etc etc.

[frankb]

"Extra virgin" means it can quote every line from every Star Wars movie.

[Plvs_Vltra.]

Well Italy buy loads of oil from Spain due to their high quality and production then label it as Italian so…

[debsholly]

Order olive oil from Bramasole. It is high in polyphenols and takes only a week to arrive in the US

[scottloar]

Try olive oil from Spain which produces almost half the world's olive oil.

[norweminguerfochnare]

No. Yo soy española y sé más de aceite de oliva
Lo primero, el AOVE (virgen extra) es recomendado solo para usar en crudo.
Para cocinar es mejor el aceite de oliva normal o el de girasol

Y segundo, no dudo que haya buenos aceites de oliva italianos o griegos, pero los que yo he probado están lejos -muy lejos- de la superior calidad promedio española.
En España (y sobre todo, si el aceite proviene de Jaén, Granada o Córdoba, en Andalucía) casi cualquier aceite de oliva virgen extra de marca blanca es una delicia, cosa que no he visto con aceites de otros orígenes

[ldrlorena]

Extra virgin doesn't just mean 1st press. Virgin and extra virgin are both 1st press but extra virgin oil has better quality, it has to be tested after the extraction to verify if it's going to be called virgin or extra virgin. Both oils are good, in Spain we would use virgin for cooking and extra virgin to eat raw

[MiejskaSzamanka]

Most of olives have other oils added to them. There are not enough of olive bushes to produce the amount of olive oil that is on the market. So in my opinion the most important info is to tell which companies really are selling olive oil and which ones are scamned

[rickbot]

Another tip that I always use and that is much more efficient to me is make sure you have the name and location of the persone that make it. It is in small usually but it makes all the difference it is like imbotigliato da "frantoio ..." It makes all the difference if you have it !

[burakdalklc]

I heard that it should also be pressed under 30 degree celcius for getting more fruity taste. But it is possible that above this temperature might be accetped as cold press by companies and they write as cold press on the bottle. I don't know how to find this information, it is not written.

[linuxdevops]

What is written on the bottle and what is actually inside can sometimes be two different things. If someone has never tasted authentic oil at least once, it can be very difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, leading them to trust only what is available in stores .