In cooking, we usually use vegetable oils which is edible mostly made from peanuts, olives, coconut and safflowers. Oil are extracted from the plants or fruits thought pressing or extracting machine. People are using this mostly to sauté or to fry. But there are varieties of ways to use the oil, specifically olive oil which could be used for salad dressing or marinades.
Olive oil which is naturally found in olives is extracted with the use of pressing machine or cylinder-like extracting machine. The home-made olive oils can be put in an small extracting or pressing cylinder, the extracted oil will need to be washed by water, put into the fridge to be able to separate the oil from the water.
Olive oil imported in the Philippines is marketed as high quality product and sold for premium price. This is because of the locally high cost of producing olives and competition among high price imported olive oil that dominates the low and medium quality oil markets. When we extracted the oil in olives, it becomes one of the healthiest oil to be used since it is rich in monounsaturated fats and antioxidants. Olives have many specifications and good kinds of olives are identified though pleasant flavor and aroma that is matching foods. However, olive oil is usually used for low-point smoke/temperature cooking and there are times that you would not prefer to use olive oil in other mixed of cooking.
People usually use one oil or combining two oils when cooking. Combination of olive oil and vegetable oil (coconut oil) can be used both in high and low smoke point of cooking and temperature with pleasant flavor and aroma..
