Olive oil cooking myths 🫒 #shorts

[Matthatguy]

“You can’t cook with olive oil” meanwhile all of southern European cuisine

[kingkong]

This man is a good guy. He reminds me of a teacher of mine. He was a teacher with a lot of passion for his job and really made a difference. I wish you well Andy.

[joan]

Here in Greece we dip bread when we finish our salads. It has tomato juice, cheese crumbles, lemon or white vinegar and olive oil. We eat so much bread it's considered a second meal.

[gumarks_]

I'm Spanish and I usually use different oils like this:

-Extra virgin olive oil for things that don't need cooking, like a salad. I don't want to lose that excellent taste by heating the oil.

-Regular olive oil (which usually includes both refined and virgin oils) for usual cooking (steak, chicken breast, eggs, sauteed vegetables and pretty much anything that doesn't require a lot of oil, just a light amount).

-If I need a bigger amount of oil, such as for deep frying, I prefer to use sunflower oil, which also is a very common oil in Spain.

[isaaccoles]

The only bad thing about cooking at high temps with extra virgin olive oil is that it smokes up your house. In Spain we cook pretty much everything with normal olive oil, it makes the food delicious!

[jennandcherries]

I’m Spanish and we cook with extra virgin olive oil quite a lot. It is true that it doesn’t taste the same as uncooked but it does give base sauces like “sofrito” a better flavour and sofrito is a staple for a lot of dishes in Spain 🥘 don’t be afraid to use olive oil, just cook at a gentle heat ✨

[TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

Italians deep fry in EVOO, it is totally a myth not to cook with it…. It’s absolutely fine. Two best cooking fats for health and flavours are butter(and ghee) and EVOO.

[anthia]

The whole Mediterranean cooks with olive oil and we actually live quite long. My family (because we produce our own) even fries with olive oil.

[murdoph]

I didn't know there were even rumours about them, but thanks for debunking the misinformation

[KareFreee]

As a Greek, this is more often than not the only type of oil in the kitchen; so I’ve learned to improvise a lot of dishes with it; olive oil is great

[paulkontos]

As a Greek, from an island where nearly every family makes their own extra virgin olive oil, Andy is 100% correct 🎉🎉

[lakliams]

Antioxidant because is high very high in vitamin E, which you'll just "kill" with any amount of heat🤷🏻‍♀️ so your olive oil will start to oxide and so become toxic

[bbguy]

I rewatch your videos at least a couple times every i time I see them. Bro you make some of the best cooking content on the platform and you never spread any negativity. Keep doing everything that you’re doing and good things will continue to happen to you brother. I love this, thank you 🤍

[pietrotettamanti]

The problem is not the oxidation of the oil, it's pyrolysis (which happens at smoke point). And olive oil does have a lower smoke point than other oils as it has more unsaturated fats (oleic acid, linoleic, alpha linolenic etc.) than other oils (which contain more saturated fats like stearic/palmitic/myristic acid etc.). Saturated fats are less dangerous when heated because they are more stable and don't pyrolize forming PAHs and other dangerous products. And antioxidants do *nothing* to counteract formation AND action of carcinogenic molecules like benzopyrene. They can only mitigate the effect of oxidizers and scavenge radicals. But that has nothing to do with PAHs.

That said, you can absolutely cook safely with olive oil as long as you keep it below its smoke point. Just don't use it to deep fry stuff. Sunflower seed oil or palm oil are much better suited for that.

[Andrew-mphu]

Absolutely love this channel. Andy, Babe, and Basic Mitch are my kind of people.

[LindaSmith-vqbr]

I am so glad that you laid out this issue so clearly. It has driven me to distraction trying to explain this. Now I just have to refer to this short. Thank you!

[MichailDimDrakomathioulakis]

I think around Mediterranean, olive oil is the standard for cooking. Of course, butter is also used, some other vegetable oils (mainly sesame oil) too, but olive oil is the rule… Since quality control and food quality awareness have increased (at least in the EU countries, that I’m aware of), for more and more people olive oil means extra virgin olive oil…

[carmelitajones]

Exactly. You're right and the reports are right. Once it gets over 375° approaching 500° degrees, it's a bad idea to cook with olive oil or extra cirgin olive oil. At that point, use real avocado oil or grape seed oil.

[aoifewalsh]

Thank you for this. I always cook with olive oil. I have a mixed one with sunflower oil for main cooking and a extra virgin one for salads etc... Such a healthier option.

[maluinthes]

One of the first people on the internet to actually know what a antioxidant is.