Garbonell exra virgin olive oil 4L can for $19.99.
Woolworths weekly special.
(Aug 31 - Sep 6 )
Updated: category from Apparel to Food & Grocery.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil 4L for $19.99 at Woolworths (Weekly Specials)
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I use this stuff most of the time as i buy a few when it is $5/L and I dont think it is better or worse than anything else.
It's good oil i've been buying it for years when it's on special.
IIRC, Woolworths and Coles have store-brand extra virgin olive oil, howewever, never get this cheap. Isn't that surprising?
Hopefully my local woolworths will have some left on saturday but I doubt they will
My woolworths and coles seem to always have an olive oil of some brand out on special at $5/L every month or so.
Just keep an eye out at your storeI went twice (in the evenings) only to find all sold out. Then I asked the store manager to hold 5 cans for me and picked up next day.
Fantastic find.
the Extra virgin always seems to be sold out :-(
Does Woolworth do raincheck?
Yea they were sold out when I came in. Good thing coles/Woolworth do this sale every couple weeks/months.
Good price. Pity I can't use this with my pans.
may I know why?
You shouldnt cook with extra virgin olive oil. It has a much lower temperature before it begins to smoke. Once it starts smoking you are making some nasty stuff in your oil (free radicals). Extra virgin oil should really be used in things like dressings or applied to cooked foods like meat once taken off the heat.
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=56
"For a natural, very high-quality extra virgin olive oil, I believe the 200-250°F range reflects the most likely upper limit for heating without excessive damage. In other words, this would allow the use of extra virgin olive oil for making sauces, but not for 350°F baking or higher temperature cooking."
http://www.udri.udayton.edu/NR/exeres/4BEACB52-0F59-4D82-813…
this study here points out olive oil have less toxins release at smoke point.
@slowmo: Yeah dont make any oil smoke. BUT extra virgin is going to smoke far earlier than other oils. Keep the extra virgin for other things. Use normal olive oil for cooking.
Thanks for info Duff. How about the non-extra-virgin olive oil? Can we use it for cooking?
@leiiv: Olive oil comes in serveral forms. The other forms like normal olive oil will not smoke so easily so they should be fine to use. (just dont overheat them)
Pans allergic to a specific type of oil?
Thats a new one..
Nope it's a fact and been around for a while. Highly efficient cookware (scanpan, jamie oliver professional, and several others) get very hot very fast and can burn the surface resulting in poor performance (read black crap on your pan) and potentially damaging to the pan itself. These cookware need oil such as canola, possibly vegetable, bran and sunflower oil, but I personally use canola oil. It has a much higher temperature range than olive oil.
Highly efficient cookware (scanpan, jamie oliver professional, and several others) get very hot very fast and can burn the surface resulting in poor performance
That has nothing to do with the oil, the pans are just made of materials which are good conductors of heat.
The only way you can damage the pans which you have mentioned is by over heating them, this will cause damage to the Teflon coating, it has nothing to do with the oil.
Using an oil with a low smoke point can actually keep the pan cooler compared to using oil which smokes hotter.
Think of adding water to your pan, the maximum temperature the pan can get to is around 110 degrees C as the water absorbs the heat and dissipates it as steam.Adding olive oil to the pan will do the same thing, the oil smoking is just like water steaming. Using an oil with a higher smoke point will allow the pan to get hotter and potentially damage the Teflon coating, using oilve oil will keep the pan cooler than using say Canola oil.
Not that i will ever use Teflon coated products..
What is the original price?
The ad does say 50% off.
The last time I saw oil this cheap was with moro oil and I ended up buying a trolley load - still using it to this day.
No prob if they've sold out just ask for a raincheck. If it's in the catalogue they'll do it.
BTW Someone on here was claiming to be an ex-Safeway worker and said Spanish olive oil had gone up, so we wouldn't be seeing $20/4L again.
Seems to be untrue! (I guess we shouldn't trust a rumour from an anonymous poster.)
Thanks for the tip about the raincheck. I didn't know they do that.
Every time I've gone to get a few cans of extra virgin on sale, it's been sold out.
Woolworths dont give rainchecks only coles do.
I didn't have to ask for it anyway. :)
Was really lucky this time. There was still a few left.
The difference this time is that they set up a big display near the checkouts so they had heaps to start off with and sold heaps of it too.
just brought one. Good post!
bought two cans from Woolies Eastgardens, thanks!
Is this still valid - I thought it expired on the 6th?
brought one can just now, not sure if it's good or not