28-02-2025
Graza's New High-Heat Olive Oil Is Perfect for Frying, Grilling, and Baking—and We Can't Stop Using It
Cooking with extra virgin olive oil has a load of purported health benefits, but it isn't the best frying oil. If you try to crisp up dumplings with it, you may experience a smoky, bitter mess due to its low smoke point.
Enter: Frizzle. Graza recently unveiled this neutral-flavored, high-heat olive oil that is chemical free and perfect for searing, frying, and baking. Here's how the company transforms its premium olives into an oil that can take the heat (while maintaining some of the antioxidants and omegas that make olive oil a go-to choice).
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Frizzle is a mix of olive pomace oil and extra virgin olive oil (EVOO). Graza makes their pomace oil using the leftover picual olive mush from their Drizzle and Sizzle EVOO products. Here's what they do:
Early season olives are pressed to make finishing oils (Drizzle).
Later harvest olives are pressed to create a cooking oil (Sizzle).
Olive mush from peak season pressings is pressed again to create pomace oil.
The pomace oil is heated and pressurized, then mixed 'a touch' of Sizzle oil.
Graza says the addition of Sizzle gives the oil a subtle flavor and an antioxidant boost. The end result is an oil with a smoke point of 490°F, which is significant considering their Sizzle oil has a smoke point of around 410°F. An added bonus is that this oil is completely free from chemicals, solvents, or additives that come with other high-heat oils.
Think of Frizzle as a swap for canola, vegetable, or avocado oil. Sizzle's lower smoke point makes it ideal for everyday cooking, like scrambled eggs. On the other hand, Frizzle can be used to fry veggies in a smoking cast-iron skillet. You could also make fried potatoes, crispy tofu, deep-fried deviled eggs, or anything you need to bake in a hot oven.
"I love the Graza Frizzle's neutral flavor and high smoke point for a more versatile cooking oil," says Better Homes & Gardens food editor Katlyn Moncada. "I sautéed some Brussels sprouts in a screaming-hot pan and had no smoke and the perfect crispy results on the veggies."
If you're still not sure whether to use Sizzle or Frizzle for baking, consider this: Sizzle tastes more like olives. This added flavor is ideal when you want to make something like whipped olive oil. Frizzle has a buttery taste but lacks that same olive note, which is perfect when you want other ingredients to shine.
Also, Sizzle can take some heat during a quick pan fry, but as you get closer to that 400°F mark during deep frying, you risk the oil breaking down, smoking, and getting bitter. A batch of chicken wings covered in oil will cook more seamlessly with Frizzle.
Purchase Frizzle at as a 5-ounce spray, a 750-milliliter squeeze bottle, or a 2-liter jug. You can get up to 19% off if you purchase higher quantities.
Read the original article on Better Homes & Gardens
