I was on amazon today and saw this: http://www.amazon.com/Genco-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Oil/dp/B000MMO8W2/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=grocery&qid=1283553968&sr=8-8
Genco EVOO…1 GALLON for under 20 bucks. Is this for real? If not, what’s the next cheapest but reputable brand I can get? I’m starting a bulk soon and wanted to stock up cheap
this one appears to be cheap as dirt too…66 ounces (2 liters) for 20 bucks.
That’s cheap?
In Toronto EVOO regularly comes on sale and I buy 5-6 1L bottles for $3.99 each.
wtf??? Are you shitting me? Maybe we have higher tariffs here. 3.99 in a supermarket here would probably buy you .25L’s.
Yeah man…
http://www.foodbasics.ca/en/circulaire.html?idFlyer=90&flyerPage=0&imgSize=0
Not sure of this brand, but $2.77 for 750mL
I’m tempted to mail you like 30 bucks…
There was an article a while back about counterfeit EVOO. It claimed the Italians make more money shipping out counterfeit EVOO to an unknowing world than the entire illicit drug industry in Italy.
[quote]yorik wrote:
There was an article a while back about counterfeit EVOO. It claimed the Italians make more money shipping out counterfeit EVOO to an unknowing world than the entire illicit drug industry in Italy.[/quote]
This is true, your best best is to be knowledgeable about EVOO. It should be greenish in color, and not murky. Trader Joes has the best EVOO I have ever found, you can get it from Sicily, Spain, or Greece for cheap.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
[quote]yorik wrote:
There was an article a while back about counterfeit EVOO. It claimed the Italians make more money shipping out counterfeit EVOO to an unknowing world than the entire illicit drug industry in Italy.[/quote]
This is true, your best best is to be knowledgeable about EVOO. It should be greenish in color, and not murky. Trader Joes has the best EVOO I have ever found, you can get it from Sicily, Spain, or Greece for cheap. [/quote]
Do you happen to have a link to a sicilian, spanish, or grecian online retailer I could purchase from?
I friggin’ love being Mediterranean. My grandparents ship us gallons of the stuff all the time, comes in wooden crates rofl.
I was doing EVOO shots for awhile, once I noticed they started being hard to get down - we were on supermarket EVOO for a little until the box from my grandparents arrive. I’m not saying all supermarket EVOO is shit, but there was deff. a difference.
Genco…isn’t that name of the godfather’s(vito corleone) olive oil business?
lol
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
This is true, your best best is to be knowledgeable about EVOO. It should be greenish in color, and not murky. Trader Joes has the best EVOO I have ever found, you can get it from Sicily, Spain, or Greece for cheap. [/quote]
You can fake the color too. The only way to know for sure is to do a smoke temperature test. I think TC wrote the article in an Atomic Dog a while ago, but I can’t find it using the search function.
An old nutrition professor of mine used to say that very cheap EVOO sometimes uses powerful solvents to remove olive trub and artificially clarify the oil, and that although most of them are removed in processing a certain amount remains. Don’t know how true this was/is…
EVOO has a pretty distinct taste and I feel that most people don’t care it. Wouldn’t you be able to tell the difference just from a taste test?