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<pre>on 19/7/2000 11:16 am, Iain Latter at latteri1@tui.lincoln.ac.nz wrote:

>
> Last night i was in the supermarket here in Christchurch New
> Zealand and noticed a very large display of EVO from a big local
> imported label. Every bottle of oil had a large amount (5cm in
> bottom of 500ml bottle) of a white milky substance floating in the
> oil, their was also small white spots up the inside of the glass on
> the bottle.
>
> Any ideas of whats gone wrong, it looked awful?

Your supermarket is skimping on its heating, or the oil has just come in
from a cold storeroom. Olive oil throws a waxy white deposit (and becomes
slushy when you pour it) when its temperature falls below 10C. Warming it up
gets rid of the deposit, without any ill-effects on flavour or other
properties.

This happens in my (unheated) Christchurch kitchen, so I keep my oil in the
(heated) office...

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