Talk:Olive oil spread

What does it taste like?

Not tried it yet as still within its 12 hours refrigeration period, but will let you know later as I will be making some Pa amb oli and will use it to spread on the toast rather than just drizzle oil over it. Hopefully it will be fine as I tend to get oil all over my hands eating the stuff when the oil is drizzled. --JuliaBalbilla (talk) 07:59, 1 March 2016 (GMT)

Tried it as above and basically just tasted like olive oil. It spread straight from the fridge VERY easily as expected. I think it would be a good substitute for butter / spread in cases such as melting over potatoes and veg or having on savoury toast or in savoury sandwiches. However you wouldn't really want it with bread and jam for example, purely because of the olive oil flavour. It MAY work if you used a tasteless oil though. Not suitable for baking of course and as I understand it, not for frying either. I shall certainly keep making it as it is less messy on toast than plain olive oil and like the idea of using it on veg to cut back a bit on my butter consumption. I just used a cheap Spanish EVOO that I reserve for cooking and it is fine. ASDA 3 litre bottle. I might try it with a more expensive one at some stage, but could be a bit overpowering as a spread. The olive oil spreads that you buy are not made with EVOO (except for one Waitrose sort which contains a blend of EVOO and ordinary). --JuliaBalbilla (talk) 09:43, 1 March 2016 (GMT)

Ok That's interesting. We use Lurpack for spreads and real butter for cooking. Found most olive oil spreads tasted ghastly.

Looks lovely though, especially the pic with the red spoon! Makes me want to try it!

Could we have all the pics of the recipe page as they look so good?

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-- User:Chef

Yes, I'll add the pictures plus the one I took of it on the toast. Have just costed it as an exercise. Using the ASDA EVOO (which if you buy as 3 litres works out slightly cheaper than their non EV oil) it works out @ 69p for 200ml oil, plus 86p (!) for 12g Glice, taking into consideration postatge costs, thus £1.55 in total. 200ml oil weighs 180g plus 12g Glice = 192g for £1.55, which = 81p per 100g. Not sure how that compare to OO or Lurpak spreads, but obviously quite a hike on the cost of butter. --JuliaBalbilla (talk) 10:44, 1 March 2016 (GMT)

Doesn't really matter what is costs if you enjoy it! Our pleasures seem to be few and far between as we mature :-)

Not sure of Lurpack costs either. Anne does all the calculating. Apparently if you buy when on special offer, the savings are massive. So she bulk buys then. == DT. (Domestic triva)

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-- Jerry, aka Chef (talk) 10:52, 1 March 2016 (GMT)

-- Jerry, aka Chef (talk) 10:52, 1 March 2016 (GMT)

All done now. The costing was just an exercise really, although MFA scolds me if I don't cost things, lol. She even thinks I ought to meal plan, but I can't be doing with that. --JuliaBalbilla (talk) 12:27, 1 March 2016 (GMT)