ANy danger if olive oil is heated?

[carpediemguy]

Using olive oil for frying egs or other food would lose its quality?

IF olive oil is being heated does affect its natural characteristics?

[millertime]

Frying food in olvie oil is fine, it just adds more fat. Try not to overheat it.

[carpediemguy]

Originally posted by millertime
Frying food in olvie oil is fine, it just adds more fat. Try not to overheat it.

It is a fine line between overheating and normal heating .

What would you call overheating?

[Behemoth]

I doubt your stove could heat it hot enough for it to lose most of it's quality fats.

[MonkeyBoy]

I highly doubt you could screw Olive Oil up...it doesnt take much for it to smoke, so I think if you got to the point were it loses it's benefits the fire department would already be there...or you are dead from smoke inhalation !(spelling?)

[Tiare]

:withstupid:
It's not like butter, it has a very stable characteristic until it ignites. Even then, you can cover the pan and what's left won't be significantly affected.

Anyone know about peanut oil?

[Tryska]

peanut oil is greate for deep fat frying. that's what most commercial foods are fried in.

[the doc]

whenever you heat an oil to its smoke point ( which is very near the flash point) you will cause breakdown of the oil to carcinogenic products

[Monster Muscle]

If you do over heat that mofo, call fire Marshall Bill