Olive oil?

Using olive oil with butter to raise the cooking temp will result in burnt butter and burnt olive oil......olive oil like butter have low burn points.

OK for sauteing....best straight out of bottle.

Hash browns
3 TBSP Bacon fat
Cover with hash browns---cook med-high for 7 mins.
Then turn
Sprinkle with 1 TBSP of bacon fat and drop 4 pats of butter on top
Cook for 5 more mins
Salt/pepper to taste then several dashes of Tapatio

Big Katuna wrote:
You can Google EVOO and read on Wikipedia for hours about EVOO.
Quality EVOO is the product of pressed olives: basically pure fruit oil.
Easy to digest.
Much of what is sold as EVOO is processed, cooked,refined oil. You might as well use Canola.
Trader Joes has some good EVOO. You can find good EVOO at most Health Food stores.
The refined light olive oils aren't much if any better for you than Canola.
I use first press EVOO for all my cooking except for deep frying and then I use Peanut oil.

Somebody knows what they are talking about.thanks.

You can Google EVOO and read on Wikipedia for hours about EVOO.
Quality EVOO is the product of pressed olives: basically pure fruit oil.
Easy to digest.
Much of what is sold as EVOO is processed, cooked,refined oil. You might as well use Canola.
Trader Joes has some good EVOO. You can find good EVOO at most Health Food stores.
The refined light olive oils aren't much if any better for you than Canola.
I use first press EVOO for all my cooking except for deep frying and then I use Peanut oil.

You folks are so smart. Thanks a bunch for info I probley would have never known. I may try olive & butter mix next hash brown attempt

It's really all in the taste buds of the user,do some research on olive oil and you may decide that the olive oil cartels of Italy do a very good job of labeling and defining.Used animal fat,butter for 74 years probably not changing due to advertising,lol,

Agree: save the pricey stuff for dressings and bread dipping.

If you're wanting flavor, add a dab of butter to the cheaper EVOO. Coconut oil and butter is nice too; or just butter :c

Salads and on crusty bread the more expensive the olive oil the better tasting!

But it's no good to fry in because it has a very low burning point and then tastes real terrible.

If healthy is what is on your radar grape seed oil or sunflower oil have higher smoke points and healthy and works/taste best for cooking.

Oasisbob wrote:
So probley not a flavor enhancer for Hash Browns?

For hashbrowns Butter is Better. However, a very good cook (she makes the best french onion soup ever) taught me that if you add some olive oil to the butter when frying, you raise the burning point and the butter will not burn so readily.

So probley not a flavor enhancer for Hash Browns?

If you are going to use it in a salad dressing or with bread, etc. YES, it's worth it.

If you are going to use it in cooking, then no, that's not what you need, you need just an olive oil. It leaves it's own taste, so a light is even better.