Olive Oil or Vegetable Oil?

I only use olive oil as that's what my family used for cooking everything. Other vegetable oils taste strange to me. I have more expensive olive oils for salad dressings and in pasta, and then a more basic, cheaper olive oil for putting in soups and for frying. I buy whatever olive oil is on offer in the supermarket for basic uses.

I would say that olive oil is better, I think it tastes better as well. My family uses it for everything, the only thing we do use vegetable oil for is for the food fryer (like for french fries etc), which we rarely use anyway since we like to eat healthy. Olive Oil is more expensive than vegetable oil, you are correct, but it's something that you don't necessarily use everyday, so I am okay with that fact. Happy mylotting!

I use olive, grapeseed, and sesame oil, mainly, in my cooking. The olive oil goes into savory breads, tomato sauces, oil sauces, dressings, etc. The grapeseed oil goes for most of my stir fries, for cooking things that are going to be added to a light sauce, or in sweet baked goods. The sesame oil is sooooo good in a lot of the Asian inspired dishes and marinades I do. I use soybean oil if I need to fry something and won't be saving the oil. Canola and other vegetable oil mixes smell too gross for me to use!

I disagree with your neighbor. I use olive oil a lot. I use it to stir fry with, on my grilled veggies and in dressings. I also use vegitable oil. I love both. It depends on what I am making as to what kind of oil I use. I use peanut oil for frying especially deep frying.

the best thing to use for me is olive oil. a little bit expensive but its more healthier and delicious. most specially in pasta or vegetable salad. we can also use vegetable oil. a lot cheaper than olive oil. but i prefer olive oil.

I prefer the olive oil myself. I might use something else if a recipie specifically called for something differnt but I dont know if I would necessarily.
I feel spretty strongly about using olive oil. I think olive oil is good for cooking and it is good for many things really.

I use canola oil in cooking and olive oil for doing salads. We avoid using other cooking oils because the doctor said they will not be good for our health.

Olive oil is more expensive than vegetable oils, but it is healthier and I use very little of it. I like to use it for frying potatoes too, but it just takes a bare skim of oil on the bottom of the skillet to fry them. I rarely buy any other kind of oil.

i like to use extra virgin olive oil in my cooking as it is much healthier as you say! i do have vegetable oil as well though as i use it for when i (only occasionally as a lady has to watch her figure!! hehe) make my own french fries from scratch it tastes much better!! happy mylotting xx

I use olive oil for everything...take for instance the italians who many smoke, drink and eat hearty. the one thing i have noticed is that many italians live longer than us americans. perhaps olive oil is a secret ingredient to being healthy. maybe it is just me but olive oil makes my food taste better. i use it to fry my chicken yes fry my chicken. i use it when i cook eggs, meatloaf, steaks, porkchops you name it i cook it with everything. now when i am broke then i use mcdonalds...lol