How to Identify and Taste Quality Olive Oil
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 3 bottles vegetable oil
Preparation steps
What defines quality olive oil?
1. Taste:
A good olive oil has several flavors. Olive oil tastes like ripe, green olives depending on the oil. It has an earthy, green flavor, similar to leaves, herbs or grass.
Olive oil can also taste slightly bitter, spicy or sweet.
Stay away from olive oils that taste moldy or mustry, as well as metallic-tasting oils. These are signs of poor quality.
Do not use oils with sediment in the bottle.
2. Color:
Dark green oil usually has a strong, fruity flavor.
Yellow olive oil is sweeter with the taste of ripe olives.
Brown, yellow or red colored oil may indicate flaws, but this is not always the case!
3. Harvest:
The best olive oil is obtained from fresh olives from the beginning of the harvest in November to early December.
How to taste olive oil properly:
Olive oil should be stored at room temperature.
Place a small amount of olive oil in a shot glass and pivot so the oil is evenly distributed in the glass.
Smell the oil.
Drink the oil so it spreads over the tongue.
Before tasting another oil, cleanse the palette with white bread and water.
