Olive oil going bad?

Siobhan Perricone <[email hidden]> wrote in
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I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry. It's slightly cloudy, and it's
never been opened.

I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it
smelled rancid or something. Any ideas?

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Siobhan Perricone

The sniff test is probably the best. I've had OO sometimes go cloudy, but it seems to have no
connection with rancidity. It smelled and tasted fine.

Wayne

Siobhan Perricone <[email hidden]> wrote in
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I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry. It's slightly cloudy, and it's
never been opened.

I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it
smelled rancid or something. Any ideas?

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How cool is it in your pantry? Perhaps it is just the result of too cold olive oil? A Test: put some
in a glass container somewhere where the temperature is slightly warmer and check it say 1/2 hr
later. Say close to a heat vent or on top of the fridge.

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It's probably fine. The best olive oils are not fined or filtered so you have solid particles from
the olive skins that accumulate at the bottom of the bottle. "Clear" cloudiness could be a result of
the oil being kept in a place that was too cold at one time. Olive oils rarely go rancid and if they
do it is because they were exposed to constant light or a heat source. So just keep your olive oil
in a cool dark cabinet. All you have to do is smell the oil and your nose will tell you right away
if it's rancid.

-Suzin

Quoted message said:

I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry. It's slightly cloudy, and it's never
been opened.

I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it smelled
rancid or something. Any ideas?

--
Siobhan Perricone "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to
stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

You have a choice: www.deanforamerica.com Feel free to contact me about him, he was my governor and
"boss" for 10 years.

"If the percent of minorities in your state has anything to do with how you can connect with
African American voters, then Trent Lott would be Martin Luther King, Jr." - Howard Dean

Unfiltered olive oil can be cloudy. The smell test is the best

Even in an unopened container, olive oil can go rancid if its really old. So if you've had it around
for a very long time, it might be over the hill.

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I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry. It's slightly cloudy, and it's
never been opened.

I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it
smelled rancid or something. Any ideas?

--
Siobhan Perricone "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to
stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally
treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

You have a choice: www.deanforamerica.com Feel free to contact me about him, he was my governor
and "boss" for 10

years.

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"If the percent of minorities in your state has anything to do with how

you

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can connect with African American voters, then Trent Lott would be Martin Luther King, Jr." -
Howard Dean

Siobhan Perricone said:

I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry. It's slightly cloudy, and it's never
been opened.

I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it smelled
rancid or something. Any ideas?

--
Siobhan Perricone

I've never heard of olive oil going rancid, but it will cloud over when the temperature gets
cool enough..

Harry

In rec.food.cooking said:

I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry. It's slightly cloudy, and it's
never been opened.

Quoted message said:

I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it
smelled rancid or something. Any ideas?

Taste it?

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- The Who

Harry Demidavicius said:

I've never heard of olive oil going rancid, but it will cloud over when the temperature gets cool
enough..

I have never had a problem with it, but I recall a new item from a number of years ago when a
lot of people (in Portugal or Spain?) got extremely ill after a batch of rancid olive oil went
on the market.

Dave Smith said:

Harry Demidavicius wrote:

I have never had a problem with it, but I recall a new item from a number of years ago when a
lot of people (in Portugal or Spain?) got extremely ill after a batch of rancid olive oil went
on the market.

It wasn't rancid. It was adulterated. In a 1981 incident, 20,000 people were sickened and 400 died
from Spanish olive oil:

researchinformation.co.uk0301issue.phpOpen ↗

Although that was the most famous incident, there have been others involving Spanish olive oil. For
example, in 2001:

elenigourmet.comarchiv01.htmOpen ↗

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Harry Demidavicius said:

I've never heard of olive oil going rancid, but it will cloud over when the temperature gets
cool enough..

I have never had a problem with it, but I recall a new item from a number of years ago when a
lot of people (in Portugal or Spain?) got extremely ill after a batch of rancid olive oil went
on the market.

If it's the case I'm thinking of, it was in 1981, and 402 people died. The culprit was not rancid
olive oil but a distributor who adulterated olive oil with industrial rapeseed oil.

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Chris Green

Dave Smith said:

Harry Demidavicius said:

I've never heard of olive oil going rancid, but it will cloud over when the temperature gets cool
enough..

I have never had a problem with it, but I recall a new item from a number of years ago when a
lot of people (in Portugal or Spain?) got extremely ill after a batch of rancid olive oil went
on the market.

Was that not Botulism contaminated oil?

Harry

Harry Demidavicius said:

Dave Smith said:

Harry Demidavicius said:

I've never heard of olive oil going rancid, but it will cloud over when the temperature gets
cool enough..

I have never had a problem with it, but I recall a new item from a number of years ago when a
lot of people (in Portugal or Spain?) got extremely ill after a batch of rancid olive oil went
on the market.

Was that not Botulism contaminated oil?

Don't think so. If I recall correctly, it was a scandel involving an unscrupulous company
substituting some other sort (not edible - I forget what kind - rape seed maybe?) of oil and passing
it off as olive oil.

Regards, Tracy R.

Siobhan Perricone said:

I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry. It's slightly cloudy, and it's
never been opened.

Cloudiness in olive oil is not a big deal.

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I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it
smelled rancid or something. Any ideas?

Open the olive oil and smell it. If the olive oil has gone bad, it will definitely smell rancid. I
doubt a sealed bottle that has never been opened would go bad though, but it can't hurt to give it
the smell check.

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Siobhan Perricone said:

I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry.

Are you sure it's olive oil... olive oil is packaged in glass or metal containers... it would be odd
for olive oil to be packaged in plastic.

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It's

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slightly cloudy, and it's never been opened. I was wondering if there was a way for me to confirm
if it's bad or just cloudy. Like if it smelled rancid or something. Any ideas?

Provided it is kept in a cool, dark place, unopened olive oil has a shelf life of about two years...
once opened and exposed to light figure on one year life... do not buy more olive oil than you can
use within one year.

One simple way to determine if your oil has spoiled is to give it the sniff and taste test... now
why didn't I think of that.

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PENMART01 said:

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Siobhan Perricone said:

I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry.

Are you sure it's olive oil... olive oil is packaged in glass or metal containers... it would be
odd for olive oil to be packaged in plastic.

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Odd maybe, but it certainly happens. Pompeian brand olive oil is sold in 2 liter plastic
jugs at our local grocery store. They may not be the only brand packaged that way, but this
is the one I remember off the top of my head.

Ariane

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PENMART01 said:

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Siobhan Perricone wrote:
> I have a big, sealed plastic bottle of olive oil in my pantry.

Are you sure it's olive oil... olive oil is packaged in glass or metal containers... it would be
odd for olive oil to be packaged in plastic.

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Odd maybe, but it certainly happens. Pompeian brand olive oil is sold in 2 liter plastic jugs at
our local grocery store. They may not be the only brand packaged that way, but this is the one I
remember off the top of my head.

Ariane

Many brands of olive oil are being packaged in plastic. In the smaller sizes, too.

BOB