Flora Cuisine-Waste of money

lizzyb1812

sunnyone wrote: »

You can fry eggs in most vegetable oils but not olive oil, nor can you really do most cooking with olive oil as it cant get hot enough for it so food suck it up and get greasy from it.

Try telling a spanish housewife the above re frying in olive oil I used to live in Spain - use extra virgin for salads etc and refined olive oil for cooking. And spaniards do fry eggs. There is nothing wrong with eating fat as long as it's not "engineered" fat.

terra_ferma

Alli135 wrote: »

I like the idea it may be more healthy although I do use a lot of Olive Oil as well - depends what I am cooking.

it claims to be, but it's not actually, there are plenty of pure oils that are healthy, and also it's full of chemicals while normal oil isn't.
I think it's they same they've done with butter, they lead us to believe that using stuff full of chemicals, hydrogenated fats and colours is good for you and butter is evil.

cooking-mama

I use rapeseed oil,but rather than pour it into the frying pan i spray it in with this..http://www.lakeland.co.uk/3199/Refillable-Pump-n-Spray
This way i can use "normal" oil,but portion control it,i realy just use enough to stop the eggs sticking.

chrismbt

Flora Cuisine - "45% less saturated fat than Olive Oil."

According to the bottle it contains 7.3% saturated fat, part of its 70% total fat. It contains a blend of vegetable oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed, Linseed), next ingredient is water, and then salt at 0.9%. So most of it is oil and water. It contains Emulsifiers and stabilisers, colour and preservatives. It costs £3.96/litre.

When heated it goes from opaque to clear.

Seems to me its a mixture of oil and water held together with emulsifiers. Maybe the heating drives off the water leaving just the oil, which makes it clear, and therefore higher in fat, including saturated fat, than when measured including the water.

On the other hand, Pure Rapeseed oil, often sold as "Vegetable Oil" is 7% saturated fat, and contains no water so its still 7% after you've heated it, less than Flora Cuisine. Its around 60p/litre.

Rapeseed is grown in Britain so might cut down on food miles. It has little flavour of its own and works fine for everything from deep drying to salad dressing.

Seems to me its a waste of money.

kittycatface

for those of you who have kept your receipt and hated the stuff there's a mbguarantee with terms and conditions listed here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1255347
This is one of the ones I was honest about hating in order to get my money back! Cooking on our electric hob it leaves a horrible residue on fried onions, when heating for roast potatoes there was a brown froth on the top which did not look very natural. We normally use aldi cheap olive oil and sunflower oil for roast pots so will be sticking to that in future. It's nice to know that some others thought the same as me about this product. Looks like even vernon kay and his mum can't sell this one.

MandM90

terra_ferma wrote: »

I use olive oil for most cooking (when I use oil at all, as I mostly cook with a slow cooker, or grill so don't use any oil). You can buy decent olive oil reasonably cheaply. Stay away from 'lighter' types, they are a con, inferior products, the only 'proper' olive oil is the extra virgin type, all the others use lower quality olives and are chemically treated.

The real stuff doesn't have to cost a fortune:
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/asda-compare-prices/oils_and_vinegar/asda_extra_virgin_olive_oil_500ml.html

PS my choice is based on taste, as I mainly use oil on salads, very little for cooking (thanks to my slow cooker and g. foreman grill), the better it tastes the less I use, with other types of oil I tend to use much more because they don't taste of much.

I find extra virgin doesn't hold up very much for cooking. I use it, along with walnut and avocado oil, in salads and rapeseed and groundnut oil for cooking.

valk_scot

I use sunflower oil for general cooking and EV or normal olive oil for salads and things like making tomato sauce where the taste is important. There's always some sort of offer on olive oil and the Lidl stuff is good too. £2 a 500ml bottle of Napolena Extra Virgin, standard or mild in Tesco atm.

What I do do though is use a lot less than in most recipes. You can fry eggs in a couple of teaspoons of oil if you've got a good frying pan, for example. If you're making a casserole or sauce and the recipe calls for four tablespoons of oil, I use one. Jamie Oiliver is obsessed with olive oil, have you noticed? He "gluggs" it over everything, willy nilly. It's really not necessary!

I just laughed at the adverts for the Flora Cuisine. It reminded me of the Sunny Delight fiasco a few years ago. Remember that? Making a synthetic, vile copy of a natural product and then attempting to persuade us by the power of advertising it was better than the real thing?

Coupon_Queen_3

I also bought it on offer. Buy one get one free. So now I have 2 of them aaaggghhh.

Total waste of money, I wish I had read it properly before I bought them. I thought it was the spray but its just like pouring melted butter into the pan. I would not recommend ewwww :-(

Bronnie

Agree with Val, I'm trying to keep the calories down at the moment.

I just wipe round a good non-stick pan with a drop of sunflower oil and can virtually dry-fry my eggs, giving them a quick flip over at the end to cook the top of the yolk. Dry-cook scrambled eggs in the same frying-pan too.

Far more MS and healthier to cut down on sat fats and calories by using less of suitable natural products than by buying the "manufactured" solution imo.

terra_ferma

Saw the tv ad just this morning, so misleading to pass it off as healthier than OO, it really makes me angry because there are a lot of people who buy into this sort of 'health scare' messages and will buy this low fat crxp that is full of a mix of additives, chemicals, high calories, sugar etc etc
long live butter, olive oil, anything that comes from nature rather than a chemical lab