…… Bulk olive oil

[Gardener]

For those of you who buy olive oil in the large metal 3 liter containers, do you use it right from the large container, or do you put it into smaller containers? What kind of container do you use? I was thinking I could use quart canning jars, but I wondered if anyone had a better solution?

Thanks!

 

[IRoberge]

I pour directly from the large container into the smaller pour bottle i keep near the stove. The metal tin gets stored n the pantry floor.

 

[Babs]

I pour about a quart out into a quart jar that I keep in the pantry. The balance, I leave in the metal container and place in the spare refrigerator.

 

[kyrsyan]

I keep a spray bottle to use for the most part. But if I need it as part of a recipe, I just use it from the bottle.

 

[seraphima]

there was a $5 Friday special at Safeway last week of 16 oz oliveoil for $5. This included the organic! We bought a bunch; oil is one of those items that are hard to make, especially where no olive trees grow. there are lots of different foods to forage or grow, wherever you live, or whatever the climate- but oil is essential to eat so many of them. Even to cook salmon or halibut, our most abundant food. Love the idea of using a spray bottle!

 

[kyrsyan]

there was a $5 Friday special at Safeway last week of 16 oz oliveoil for $5. This included the organic! We bought a bunch; oil is one of those items that are hard to make, especially where no olive trees grow. there are lots of different foods to forage or grow, wherever you live, or whatever the climate- but oil is essential to eat so many of them. Even to cook salmon or halibut, our most abundant food. Love the idea of using a spray bottle!

I found that a regular old pump sprayer works great. Mist sprayers? Haven't found one yet that lasts for more than a few months.

 

[mikeabn]

Mom, God rest her soul, always kept it in the large container. Being Italian we tended to use it rapidly and maybe that's why she didn't bother to transfer it.

 

[Raggedyman]

For those of you who buy olive oil in the large metal 3 liter containers, do you use it right from the large container, or do you put it into smaller containers? What kind of container do you use? I was thinking I could use quart canning jars, but I wondered if anyone had a better solution?

Thanks!

Gradner . . . we use LOTS of EVO . . . at the present time there are 14 3L tins of this stuff on the shelf in the fruit cellar. we easily use 6L/year if not more.

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when I open a tin I pour into and top off, 4 smaller containers staggered about the kitchen and upstairs cabinets. about 1/3 of that 3L tin goes into these. the rest of the oil in that freshly opened tin will go into 2 plastic 1L containers that previously held EVO of the same type. those are returned to the coolness and darkness of the fruit cellar. the freshly opened and now empty tin is discarded. cooking oil will keep very well if properly stored . . . KOOL and DARK are the operative words

hope that helps

 

[kyrsyan]

Gradner . . . we use LOTS of EVO . . . at the present time there are 14 3L tins of this stuff on the shelf in the fruit cellar. we easily use 6L/year if not more.

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when I open a tin I pour into and top off, 4 smaller containers staggered about the kitchen and upstairs cabinets. about 1/3 of that 3L tin goes into these. the rest of the oil in that freshly opened tin will go into 2 plastic 1L containers that previously held EVO of the same type. those are returned to the coolness and darkness of the fruit cellar. the freshly opened and now empty tin is discarded. cooking oil will keep very well if properly stored . . . KOOL and DARK are the operative words

hope that helps

Oh heck. Wish I lived close enough to take those tins off your hands. I have lots of ways I could use those.

 

[Gardener]

Oh heck. Wish I lived close enough to take those tins off your hands. I have lots of ways I could use those.

Like what? Just curious!

 

[kyrsyan]

Like what? Just curious!

Clean, I have a variety of homemade flavorings. There's also dried fruits and other small items. Even sugar, pancake, or potato flakes would do well. Dried beans. I also receive food grade glycerin in plastic that I would love to switch to metal.
I had a mouse invasion a few years back. Now everything is in glass or tin. While I made other changes, just that one change helped a lot. If I had a selection of those tins, they'd get used.