Heating oil

[Miss Laurel]

If I am stir frying veggies with olive oil on medium heat, am I losing any nutritional value from the oil. I've read conflicting research. I just find the oil tastes much better when heated.

Thanks

Laurel

[smuggie]

I don't think you're supposed to heat olive oil.

Put it on your food after it's cooked.

[Strive2Define]

Originally posted by smuggie@Jun 21 2006, 08:14 PM
I don't think you're supposed to heat olive oil.

Put it on your food after it's cooked.
:huh: if this is true I have been doing this wrong for most of my life..I thought that was for like flax oil??

[smuggie]

Flax oil. Definitely not.

I'm not 100% sure about olive oil, but I don't think so. If memory serves, it shouldn't be heated to high temperatures.

I think for cooking you're better off sticking with canola, safflower seed or sunflower seed oils.

[Kristy]

Extra virgin olive oil has a low burning point. I would only use it on very low heat if you're worried about degrading it. I just use PAM olive oil spray when cooking at higher temps and use real olive oil for things like dressings.

[Feather]

:blink: :oops: I cook with olive oil all the time, I had no idea you should not heat it. I even bake with it. :shrug:
I hope my famly doesn't drop dead. :lol:

[Kristy]

Originally posted by Feather@Jun 21 2006, 05:48 PM
:blink: :oops: I cook with olive oil all the time, I had no idea you should not heat it. I even bake with it. :shrug:
I hope my famly doesn't drop dead. :lol:
You're not going to have any health issues from cooking with it. Heat just degrades the Omegas. I do know that burning oil creates some sort of carcinogens, though. And EVO is pretty easy to burn.

[Pandora]

Originally posted by Feather@Jun 21 2006, 08:48 PM
:blink: :oops: I cook with olive oil all the time, I had no idea you should not heat it. I even bake with it. :shrug:
I hope my famly doesn't drop dead. :lol:
I do, too. Just don't heat it too high when sauteeing etc.

[NCfitnessgirl]

All the cooking shows say that if you want to use high heat for something (like searing meat), use vegetable oil because it has a higher buring temp. Sometimes they mix veg oil with olive oil for stir frying.

[Birdie]

I learned this lesson.

One Thanksgiving, I basted my turkey in olive oil and cooked it in one of those bags and we could not even try to make gravy. The olive oil gave the juices a rancid flavor. The temp in the bag was simply too high for the olive oil.