Cooking with olive oil these days: definite no-no?

[Deicide]

Constantly read how it becomes unstable and harmful at high temperatures. Experts, chime in.

[NaturalWonder83]

i wont cook w extra virgin
but ill let my pan get warm and cook w/ regular olive oil
i never let it get too hot so it smokes

or i like cooking w/ coconut oil

[Princess L]

i wont cook w extra virgin
but ill let my pan get warm and cook w/ regular olive oil
i never let it get too hot so it smokes

or i like cooking w/ coconut oil

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It's not harmful to saute' with olive oil, but, like a lot of things, it does lose a lot of its nutrients when exposed to heat.  Don't waste $ on EVOO for cooking - use it after cooking. 

[Migs]

extra virgin is great for a finishing.  Use oo for normal cooking since it is able to tolerate higher temps. 

[tbombz]

as long as the oil isnt putting off smoke, then it isnt getting damaged. and even when it does start to smoke a little bit, you can just turn the heat down.. degeneration/toxification doesnt happen all at once, its a process... and it isnt like it totally fucking destroys the oil entirely

[Migs]

true and generally it happens after several fry sessions too

[suckmymuscle]

Constantly read how it becomes unstable and harmful at high temperatures. Experts, chime in.

  Please define harmful. It certainly doesen't hydrogenize otherwise it would become solid which it doesen't. Heat doesen't make it rancid either nor does it form peroxide unless you heat it to extreme temperatures for long periods of time. How does it change to become unstable?

SUCKMYMUSCLE

[Agnostic007]

Pure Virgin is for high temp...