Cobram Extra Virgin Olive Oil Classic 3 Litre is on special at Coles this week.
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Cobram Extra Virgin Olive Oil Classic 3 Litre $50 @ Coles
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vegimate on 24/07/2024 - 08:51 coles.com.au (2413 clicks)
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Sad day for those using oils while on bed.
Liquid gold. The new?
Sad when oil for your car is cheaper than oil for you
Ever tried deep-frying in/cooking with E10s? Best arancini I've ever tasted!
/sprobably also the crispiest
Wasn’t that always the case? Can’t imagine less than $1.6 for a L of oil.
thats petrol mate. before the price rises olive oil was 3euros a litre.
Oh I see what ampersand meant now hahaha
This vs ALDI olive oil? I think ALDI retails cheaper than this
Same price per litre with this special
Aldi only $5 cheaper I think. Aldi 3L Olive Grove oil is $45 from memory.
Aldi 3L Olive Grove hasn't been available for a long time.
Oddly, Aldi Olive Grove 750ml is cheaper per L, than the 1L bottle.
The 3L has been in stock at multiple aldis in my area for the past month or so for $45.99
@3v3rqu357: ok great.
I've visited probably about 4 different Aldi's in my area and haven't seen them for months.
At $50, I'd by Cobram.
@45rpm: Aldi uses a combination of olive oils from different growers across Australia. I know because the guy I buy direct from sells massive amounts to them.
Sadly the shortage has affected his production too.
I've changed over to Aldi olive oil and happy with it, it's always a good price there so don't need to wait for specials
Likewise. Dont use it anymore due to this madness is shortage/prices. Since cutting out most other seed oils also I use only ghee for frying when I need to. Sometimes peanut oil for stir fry's.
I use only ghee for frying when I need to
I can't think of an economical or Nutrional reason as to why someone would deep fry with ghee? Or did you mean for stir frying / make an egg or steak and need some fat kind of frying?
Cobram is better quality, no?
I bought Aldi's olive oil to try. It has the smell, but not the taste. Cobram Estate has both, and their even more expensive Coratina bold olive oil is so tasty and fruity, it's like the ones that are served with bread at the crazily expensive italian restaurants (the one that I went to for a work function).
Yes, but if you're doing 4 x $50 weekly shops for 10000 points (worth $50), this will satisfy one of the weeks.
That makes a 25% discount on the $50 price, or $37.50.Apologies to those whose Coles offer is more that $50pw requirement - the effective percentage discount will be less for you but the same argument applies.
I might have to do this myself, just to get olive oil at a half decent price in these gougey times.
I have found Olive Oil to be a non essential oil in recent times.
What do you use instead?
I mainly used Olive Oil when preparing Pizza dough and also drizzled on the top before cooking.I have skipped this and found the end product is just as good.
This article has some suggestions for alternatives. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-04-27/olive-oil-alter…
The article isn't particularly useful.. just listing oils that the suparmarket sells without a good reason why, for example from a health point of view.
the end product is just as good.
Not if you are using a decent olive oil
When everyone else just uses canola / sunflour oil.
I'm sure in Europe olive oil is $8 a litre…
@[Deactivated]: Europe actually has a huge problem of fake olive oil. Like, so bad that when they presented some of their top chefs with genuine olive oil versus fakes, most picked the fakes as being the real thing. I now use beef tallow instead, but if I was buying, I'd stick to made and grown in Australia.
@[Deactivated]: No longer, not even for the cheap stuff. Supply has been down significantly for >12 months. EVOO was €12+/l in Spain early 2024, nearly double the normal price. Unsurprisingly consumption has dropped, but I doubt anyone would have predicted the huge drop in Spanish consumption - nearly 50%.
I only use olive oil for sourdough, salads and the like.
Any high smoke point neutral tasting oil like canola oil or veggie oil is good for frying.
But not as good for your health
@Boioioioi: Sure but it's marginal. Just don't punch darts and you'll be healthier than if you used olive oil.
@Boioioioi: Cooking with a heat source denatures the oil so it is not healthier when you use it for deep frying at high temperatures.
@boomslung: That's true for all oils. Despite what the smoke point would suggest, Olive oil produces far lower amounts of toxic by-products when heated compared to seed oils.
https://originz.co/organically-speaking/olive-oil-vs-mustard…
depending on the flavour you like, Mustard oil has marginally better health benefits and Costco currently has a bottle for $10 (cant remember if it was 2L or 4L, think it was 4)
@Megatron: Mustard oil is basically just Canola oil with high Erucic Acid content.
Olive Oil is definitely the better choice if you are looking for a healthy oil.
Ricebran oil is good alternative. High smoke point and cheap as. Doesn't impart much flavour if any at all.
Yeah this. I've swapped to rice bran oil for cooking needs and save olive oil for dressings and the like now.
@Phesto: I've been buying mine at IGA. Yeah it's more expensive than veg oil for sure though, still cheaper than olive oil.
Same here.. Switched to coconut oil / other types of fats and is working out really well.
Is the Olive Oil shortage still in place or have we just been educated to pay more?
There was a shortage of olives in Europe and in Australia apparently but I still see the shelves full of olive oil, so like everything else it is just profiteering.
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-07-16/limited-olive-o…)
Next we will see Cobram complaining that people aren't buying their oil and buying cheap imported stuff and this is breaking their business.
It's sad when Australians support Australian companies like this and then get treated like this.
Oh well…you say Oh well…
thats the problem with australians. they just dont and never will give a funk.I agree…
I was going to say the old "Vote with your feet" comment but Australians generally never do.
We get shafted by QANTAS, we still fly QANTAS, Optus holds on to our personal data for over 10 years, they get hacked and expose our data, we still use Optus. Medibank makes a boo boo and we lose more personal data but still use Medibank. Coles and Woolies have been making record profits since before COVID and causing the cost of living crisis but people still shop there. Service Stations have been ripping people blind for things other than petrol but people still buy things like drinks, toilet paper and cigarettes there. 100% renewable energy was supposed to mean cheaper electricity but never happened, now dearer than ever. Banks closing branches, doing people out of jobs but making billions per year. People saying we don't need cash so that banks and government can have full control over what you spend your money on. Crowd Strike will be the same, cause so much grief around the world because they didn't follow standard testing protocols but people will forget… Australians are laid back to a fault!@sircable: You are right. But what to do?
For many things there is not much alternative. And if there is, the alternative is often just as bad.@sircable: 100 percent right, soon the banks and government will control us, no cash, government cuts your money for whatever reason they like through the banks, like they did in Canada when the truckies were protesting against receiving their covid vax, clot shot, those who refused , protested, blocked the roads. had their funds frozen, no access to money.
yet the good people that help the truckies with money food etc, there accounts got frozen also.
their view and help to the truckies, thier view on matter, had their accounts frozen
once cash is gone, your freedom , rights is gone,
i@mickrb30: Your exaggerated misrepresentation wasn't necessary. Simple question for you - when does protest become civil disobedience?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro…
Is Cobram getting the extra money or just ColesWorth?
Colesworth…
Oh, dead set Cobram is getting the money. Absolutely. I also note that milk producers are entering the billionaires list, solely as a result of all the extra money they are receiving from ColesWorth since milk went from $1/litre to whatever ridiculous price it is now.
Same with bread - wheat farmers are fabulously wealthy now, what with bread doubling in price due to the huge increase in flour prices….Oh wait, flour has hardly risen at all (excluding the post Ukraine spike) while bread has risen (pardon the pun) and stayed inflated.
Retailers are scum, and this token investigation into them will achieve nothing other than demonstrate the government are whimps under the control of their corporate masters (whatever side of politics you're on).
@jrvb42: I doubt CW isn't getting involved and taking the lions share of the extra money coming in. Don't think it would be smart for CW to increase price by say 10% and then not take a lot of it due to their market power.
Saying that I'm no expert and have no data to back up my claims 🙃@Tommohalby: I agree. But my comment was heavily sarcastic. Hoped it would come out in the wording :)
the costs to press olives into olive oil has gone through the roof. we have our own trees and do our own oil and in the past year the price has doubled.
Yes, affected by the skyrocketing cost of electricity.
Must be all that cheaper electricity from renewables that the govermment promised@Mad Max: You appear to think that renewable energy isn't significantly cheaper than coal and gas for some reason. Time to learn about how electricty costs work.
@Igaf: Yes, learn about it:
"In Q2 2024, volume weighted average NEM prices ranged from $109 per MWh in Queensland to $189 per MWh in NSW. Compared with Q1 2024, Queensland's price fell $29 per MWh (21%) while all other regions recorded significant increases - NSW $87 per MWh (up 86%), Victoria $69 per MWh (up 99%), South Australia $65 per MWh (up 78%) and Tasmania $67 per MWh (up 97%)."
The Australian Energy Regulator released the 2nd quarter wholesale energy prices today.
The increases are out of control, driven by the drop in wind generation as touched on previously.
The lies about renewables being cheaper have to stop. It is sending both consumers and industry broke,
The two price snaps from yesterday showing wholesale energy prices show why. In the middle of the day energy wholesalers pay to sell energy into the grid. This of course is absurd - sellers should be receiving money to deliver a product rather than paying for it.
This absurdity is brought about because in order to meet our net zero targets, energy wholesalers have to deliver a certain amount of "renewable" energy into the grid.
To do this they have to sell the energy produced by solar in the middle of day at a loss in order to under cut base load energy.
In order to recoup these losses the energy wholesaler then has to sell energy at much higher prices during peak hours to recoup the losses incurred during the middle of the day.
Of course solar doesn't work in the early evening so the slack is picked up coal,
Rent seeking renewable carpet baggers claim that this scenario proves renewables are cheaper.
This is completely misleading. The COST of producing energy from coal doesn't vary during the day or night It's only the PRICE that changes
And this change is not driven by cost but rather a flawed ideology that by somehow importing renewable energy from overseas you can produce energy cheaper than burning our home grown resources
These sort of price increases are being driven by one thing, and one thing only - the installation of wind, solar and batteries.@Mad Max: Time to get back to your Senate duties Gerard, whatever they may be. Better still get off the public teat and get a real job like watching your curtains fade because of daylight saving.
Not Gerard? Sorry all climate deniers and energy ignorant mouthpieces sound exactly alike.
Your logic is impeccable. The energy market has been based on usage for decades. almost as long as coal-fired plants in this country have been on their death beds - due to AGE, not competition. Our energy market should be far more regulated but as all good capitalists know /s, markets are always impeccably efficient.
Simple fact is that without cheaper renewables your electricty costs would be FAR higher - by 20-30% on average. There are myriad articles on the topic if you ever find time away from your tea leaf (Spectator?) reading.
@Igaf: I value much more Gerard's logic that Chris' idiotic, incompetent and fumbling rethoric parroting wef and globalist elites, designed to transfer wealth to the usual puppet masters.
And the people are paying the price in ever increasing electricity prices. Didn't Bowen promise cheaper prices?
Australia has huge amounts of coal that gets happily shipped to China to use in their coal generators (they are building 2 or 3 NEW coal plants EACH WEEK!). And with Australian coal they supply their industry with the cheapest electricity possible so that they can produce all the solar panels, wind turbine and everything else to send it back to Australia. That also supports manufacturing employment as well as lowering electricity costs for everyday people.
If they can have cheap electricity while paying all the shipping costs for coal to be transported from Australia to China, Australia should have even cheaper electricity since the coal is often next door to the coal power generators.@Mad Max: Speaking of parroting mindless tosh - nice opening word salad there. Who are these "elites" transferring whose wealth to whom? Do you mean for example your LNP mates who, under the "lying rodent", managed to give mutli-national petro companies $100B+ in tax concessions for our (the common wealth's) gas for example?
You didn't need to confirm that you mindlessly devour Rennick's vacuous pseudoscience and misrepresentations, it goes with the territory.
Your spray is so scattered it's hard to know what your argument is. You've already shown your hand wrt your complete disregard for environmental responsibility and accountability so presumably you think that coal-fired power stations are economic, despite the fact that there is no evidence whatsoever to support that notion? That building expensive, outdated, heavily taxpayer subsidised new coal-fired power stations is a good idea because China is? Should we also adopt their pay rates and conditions? How about their system of "government" control over business, industry, courts, and policing?
As you know (cough) energy prices here are relatively low by OECD standards. That doesn't let Australian governments off the hook though. If you bothered to open both eyes and exercise your grey matter you'd possibly be able to work out why our energy prices have risen, and who is primarily responsible. No, it's not because of global conflict, OPEC cartels, or increased demand by China, India etc. Ultimately (imo obviousy) it's because of decades of federal govt laziness and complacency and blind belief in private industry infallibility, esp during the Howard years. Another significant contributing factor is rabid right wing News Corps "journalists" constantly undermining policy which is good for the nation and its people (as against good for big corporations) - the MRRT debacle is just one obvious example as I'm sure you know. Voters don't get a free pass either. Most are either rusted on Lib/Cuntry Party/Labor barnacles, or people who take sfa interest in anything which doesn't directly and immediately affect them. And lastly, energy prices are higher than they need to be in this country because no federal government since the lying rodent's administration has had the guts to legislate preferential treatment (ie lower energy prices) for Australian households and businesses. Until the Albanese govt felt the blowtorch of unpopuarity no govt had even bothered to apply pressure to multi-national gas corporations to ensure adequate supplies of gas. The irony as you know (double cough) is that Japan consumers of imported Australian LNG were actually paying less than consumers and businesses here.
The "lucky"country? Yes, in the context of Horn's ironic meaning, but more apt would be the smug country.
@Mad Max: So many disconnected words and ideas but no answers to simple questions Maxie? Whooda thort. Surely you know who those "elites" are, whose wealth they're misappropriating, and who's profiting? Or were you just parroting your Spectator spoonfeeders?
Old saying you and your obnoxious mate Gerard should abide by - *best to remain silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth (keyboard) and confirm it. *
Seven years ago the "arrogant pr!ck" Scott Morrison took a lump of coal into parliament and, as is his wont, waved it around saying there's nothing to fear from it. His religious zealotry and climate ignorance blinded him so badly that he didnt even give pause to consider the thousands of lives lost over centuries of coal mining. That bit of theatrical inanity is right up there with Abbott's statement that carbon dioxide is a colourless, odourless, weightless gas - subtext it's harmless folks! Fwitism is a valued trait in the LNP.
@Igaf: Climate narratives originated in The Club of Rome. Not exactly a benevolent group.
Fear mongering of the 70’s Europe freezing over, then the 90’s “global warming”. Both false, unscientific, completely disproven. Yet people still marched in the street about it and felt confident in “the science”.
Today people are steered to believe that human CO2 emissions are the cause of the “climate crisis”. You aren’t getting guilted at church any more so you should feel guilty for breathing now and accept the radical solutions that aggregate power and wealth up the chain.
Human caused CO2 emissions globally contribute 1-2% of global CO2 emissions. i.e the rest comes from nature, volcanoes etc.
Of that 1-2%, Australian CO2 emissions account for around 1%.
So if Australia becomes “net-zero”, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and stay poor, and 1/10000th of global CO2 emissions are eliminated. What impact is this supposed to have? When they start speaking that net-zero isn’t enough and we need net-negative, maybe we will be in too deep to backtrack out of the subjugation.
The climate definitely changes, so much so that your ancestors were able to inhabit a previously unliveable glaciated Europe. So maybe climate change is the reason that you are here and alive, and capable of vitriolic arguments. However it is a cardinal sin to study the climate for the past 100,000 years, as it’s inconvenient to today’s models. Kind of like how a lynch mob might attack you for pointing out the UK heat wave news sensation was in fact a hot wind from the Sahara coupled with a thermometer on the tarmac at Heathrow, the hottest UHI in the country. Sensational science.
It’s also taboo to note that the climate was hotter and the sea levels higher in the Roman period.
My two quality questions are:
- What proof have you relied upon in adopting the belief that climate change is primarily anthropologically driven?
Cheat sheet: some “authority” or a Swedish child said to. Another good answer is “I feel safe with the general consensus, it’s a good survival mechanism”.
Human history shows some people like to run with the pack and throw stones at heretics that question dogma.
- Qui bono. Who do you think benefits from the resulting aggregation of control over the essentials to human life? Energy, food, housing, transport, OLIVE OIL 👀 😄.
Jokes aside notice how human physiological needs are all the things that are under attack / seeking to be controlled? The dots connect.
What have Vanguard and Black Rock been bullish on? Extracting your juice that’s what 😄
Note to self: wtf am I doing commenting on an expired olive oil deal?
@mrdean: Love your work Mr Dean. I think we should all play nice. We should all be standing united against high prices. I’m willing to get negged just like Copernicus was. Even though it’s flat (JOKES)
@ghee: Very good comment.
I have a third quality question though:
3. How is it possible that so many people are getting screwed without realising it? Moreover, they side with those that are screwing them?@Mad Max: Good question. I’d say because generally the pretext to totalitarianism is the public acceptance that it’s good for them, for their safety and security. I’d say because most people are generally good people they can be morally persuaded by pseudo-virtuosity and pseudo-benevolence. The church used to sell tickets to heaven, indulgences and burn herbalists and steal their land, was perceived as the moral authority at the time, and persecuted non-flat earthers. There’s a good book on crowd psychology by Gustav Le Bonn. I think it’s simply a basic survival mechanism of safety in numbers. Kind of like all the condescending Covid “I trust the science” folks that have tucked all their assertions under the rug and pretend like they were on the right side of history, despite the actual science coming out of the woodwork. The current news is to support some heinous wars, so suppose it’s time to forget the last few years and stand with the side the media tells us to stand with. Opinion factories have proven their efficacy. 🧟♂️
@ghee: I agree with most of your comments.
But I am no longer sure of thispeople are generally good people
Especially after knowing that this is very true:
Human history shows
mostmajority people like to run with the pack and throw stones at heretics that question dogma.Good people don't force others to do what they are not comfortable doing. And here I refer to the forced vaccination. The linch mob is still out on that.
Have a look at the new laws that New Zealand put in place about "forcing" people.
I know, nothing to do with olive oil.
Have you considered that perhaps there's plenty of olive oil on shelves because it's so much more expensive.
Producers don't miraculously recover from a bad harvest.
If there's a decent harvest next season, hopefully the prices will drop.
Hopefully…….
still there, my colleague is an olive farmer, was on leave to harvest olive to process for olive oil.
He could only got 7L of olive oil, he usually makes about 700 L. So it been rough on him
Costs more on special than regular shelf price before the price increase
Better off buying Aldi at retail. 3.75L for $50.
I want the light tasting olive oil for cooking, is it pointless buying the light tasting olive oil blends when they are not EVOO. Always had the impression all the benefits were from that part.
(I'm content enough to keep cooking with canola for now at this pricing)
Pointless
What are you cooking that you want light tasting olive oil?
Mayonnaise?
I'm not a fan of the typical olive oil taste lol.
It really is just that "health benefit" bandwagon that started years ago for EVOO.Not deep frying or anything to be worried about the different smoke points and stuff either.
Red Island is on sale at Woolworths (its made by Cobram) and its 1 Litre for $15 which per litre is cheaper. Plus its in smaller container so keeps fresher 3 Bottles = $45
$15/L for now…
you have a week .. stock up
True, but despite being made by Cobram, Red Island ranks much lower on various taste tests
Red Island was bought by Cobram in 2012, getting a near monopoly.
Tastes fine to me, so I guess I'm a unsophisticate. If you are using it for cooking, it certainly does not matter.
Yeah I wonder how people get oil out of big containers without spills
You gotta get good at pouring - or use a funnel
Keep your empty olive oil bottle and you can refill it.
You don't use the big container when cooking. You use it to refill a more reasonable bottle to cook with….
I think the one at Costco is 6L (2x 3L containers) for about $75 which works cheaper.
Thats Olive Oil, not Extra Virgin Olive Oil… it's also constantly out of stock too… :\
Oil me up !
Not Australian. Less fresh.
More cartel too
What about this one? Also $50 for 3.78L
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/0000000000…
Suspiciously similar, wonder if it's just the same thing rebranded
This is great olive oil and is packaged in a cask to keep it from going rancid.
Works out to $17.50 per litre.
https://www.sherwoodsprings.com.au/our-products/p/ss4sjhyjwl…
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