Lesson Four: The Best Oil for Both Salad and Shirt

Oil is necessary for good cookery and using the wrong oil adds to the inept cookery. When you graduate with your diploma as an Inept Chef First Rank, your oily possibilities expand. But for now, we'll stick with a single oil that is healthy, can be heated pretty hot but not Fry Daddy hot which is dangerous for our kind, is still good enough for a salad... and will come off your shirt quite easily (with the right stain stick).

Pure Olive Oil

The Great Julia Cooking Her Goose

Do not buy Extra Virgin Olive Oil just yet. That is for Second Level Ineptness only. Never ever buy Light Olive Oil *shudders*. One must master the Pure ways of the Primary Olive Oil before gaining the confidence and nunchuck skills necessary to slide confidently from Early to Late Harvest virgin oils

Use Pure Olive Oil with great reverence and confidence as it can be heated without smoking - thereby reducing your need to replace the batteries in the smoke detector. It is fine for salads, and will gradually wean your taste buds away from the unfortunate oily pretenders such as canola.

The Essential Knowledge was passed down through the ages from The Great Julia. *bows head* But, while Her Sacred Texts may be most positive that butter is superior, that's just her opinion... likely she never brushed her goose with the buttery goodness of spring harvest pure extra virgin olive oil.