Olive oil v extra virgin olive oil

[Merlin5]

Is extra virgin much better than standard? For £3.60 I can buy either 1 litre of standard olive oil or 1 life of extra virgin oil at the normal supermarkets, or I can buy a litre of standard olive oil at Aldi for £2 89 and they sell extra virgin for a tad more. I just finished a 250ml bottle of standard olive oil. I haven't used it to drizzle on salads, just occasionally in the frying pan or when making bread.

 

[Merlin5]

Thanks. Yeah, Psycho Sonny, I bought a tub of coconut oil a few weeks back (just a cheap brand in Tesco) after reading what you said about higher smoking point and using it when making curries. I've used it a couple of times. Mind you, I never really fry anything on particularly high heat. But I read somewhere where a woman kept getting burnt pancakes by frying with butter, until she started using coconut oil when she then said she had no more burnt pancakes. So that's the main reason I bought it!

Clearly different olive oils all have a fairly specific purpose. Light olive oil, standard and extra virgin. Often I've seen people on youtube saying to use olive oil in a given recipe, but they never say what type of olive oil. So I'm assuming it's just standard olive oil. Would it be fair to say that I can just standard olive oil for 'general use'? Such as for medium temperature frying, and for adding to water when making bread and also greasing a bowl for the dough to prove in, which is what I did yesterday when making bread.

 

[Merlin5]

Yeah it's good stuff. This is what I use. I don't know how good it is though compared to other brands.

you've seen the earlier https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/so-it-turns-out-ive-been-using-the-wrong-kind-of-coconut-oil.18734434/
thread, mentioned in several subsequnt frying discussions.

Thanks for the link, I'll have a read through that thread.