Mainly Red Island but if not available, any Australian grown, pressed and owned.
Mount Zee from Farmers’ Market
I buy Cobram Estate EVO also, mainly because it is an Australian made product, where as a lot of the other oils are imported, and, in the past, have been “dumped” in Australia well after there use by date.
Cobram in a 3l tin and decant
Locally produced from the local grower’s market in Denmark WA. Bring your own bottle and have it filled up. You can usually chose between single variety pressings.
I prefer cold pressed evoo, my favourite coming from Olio Bello in the beautiful Margaret River. This is expensive and I use it basically for marinating and dressings. For cooking whatever Aussie evoo is on special when I need to stock up.
Sounds really good . Thank you for the input .
Yes the Margaret River is indeed beautiful . Thank you for advising us of this Olive oil .
I usually buy Moro extra virgin, and light (for cooking).
We use woolworths home brand.
Red Island brand Olive oil
We only ever buy Jingilli - in both the 500ML bottle and the 2L cask. We don’t like the cask much as it usually drips and leaks … and the carton is a bit of a mess by the time it’s finished. We buy this oil exclusively because for us it has to be Australian … and we prefer to avoid halal certification.
I tried Jingilli a while ago . Was ok . Good full flavour .
The Olive Tree (an Aldi brand). Australian. 3 litres.
Cobram or Red Island for salads and light cooking
Rice bran oil oil for deep frying
Firstly thank you to everybody that took the time to post in this thread . Secondly I’m not involved with any marketing organisation and this is strictly a labour of love between myself and 3 friends . /
In the future one of them , a previous poster on this forum , hopes to condense a lot of the results into a Wiki type form and start a general buying guide on this forum. I hope all goes well for her ./
We had to naturally set up a criteria where we could make the results easy absorb and not be that long winded and technical that a science degree was needed to understand them ./
We chose 3 parameters 1 ) Presentation in shop . That is , how visible was the product .Did this contribute to its popularity or lack there of ./
2 ) Marketing . Not TV ads per say but the use of modern social media such as Youtube , Facebook etc ./
3 ) Price . Value for money as balanced against quality rendered .
By the posts given Australian EVO ( Extra Virgin Olive oil ) was the most popular . The eye level presentations at Coles and Woolies were for the majority Australian . Aldi mixed things up a bit .Local produce with imported . We mainly checked supermarkets out in the Western suburbs of Melbourne so that in itself adds variables . 10-15 years ago it was all imported EVO at eye level with the local product at foot or ankle level . Things seem to have changed . Our EVO industry has grown up ./
Marketing : Of all the EVO’s Cobram estate came out as the most popular . Cobram Estates Youtube presentations are very professionally made . They inform without being over technical and impart a feeling that this is the oil to buy . Great use of modern social media . Squeaky Gate and Red Hill also did a great job on Youtube but lacked the polish of Cobram Estate ./
Price: Again Cobram Estate seems to have found a happy medium price wise . Most Australian supermarket oils seem to fit the same parameter . Maybe if I was to do this post in a year Red Hill or Squeaky Gate would come out on top . In general all the EVO’s both local and imported offered good value at supermarket level . Unfortunately time and resources did not allow us to investigate more Boutique EVo’s ./
That’s the summation I will do on the post . I could have expanded it to many other parameters but did not want to produce a bloated document just repeating data already obvious within the posts … Thanks again to the posters and please keep the EVO 's you buy being listed here .
Mike
Great job Mike, look forward to seeing the buying guide come together
Just in case it’s of interest to others commenting on this thread, here is our recent olive oil review.
Some nice results in there.
Was the line "She adds, “Minos is a quality EVVO product that has always passed lab tests to qualify it for EVOO status.” " correct or was EVVO and then EVOO a typing mistake on either of the acronyms?