[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I use Avocado oil for most my cooking and Wagyu Beef Tallow for my steak and fries.
Avocado is an excellent substitute. It has a high smoke point and neutral taste.

[ComputerGuy]

Olive oil to my wife is like chocolate to me. Cost be damned!

[exPBRrat]

Health wise my guess would be coconut oil.

[Alberta's Child]

I recommend 10W40 motor oil. :-P

[gov_bean_ counter]

They’d be able to make you an offer you couldn’t refuse…

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[Sacajaweau]

We all used the cheap cr** for years and years...then we were told we're all gonna die if we don't use olive oil....and it became the thing...like yogurt...and bean sprouts...and a steady diet of rabbit food.

Next....bugs...not just bugs...gourmet bugs...fried in EV Olive Oil.

[whitney69]

Possible alternatives to olive oil. Don’t know if the cost is any better though. Depends on product and area:

1. Grapeseed Oil
2. Canola Oil
3. Sunflower Oil
4. Peanut Oil
5. Avocado Oil
6. Walnut Oil
7. Flaxseed Oil
8. Sesame Oil
9. Ghee

Each has goods and bads about them. But these are the ones the site I looked at displayed.

https://www.greenchef.com/eat/ingredient-swap/olive-oil-substitutions

wy69

[Yardstick]

ALDI’s has avocado oil for a reasonable price. I recently got some grapeseed oil to try out and have been liking it. Very neutral flavor and high smoke point.

[Jane Long]

There are EXCELLENT Napa Valley olive oil producers.

Heritage pork, as well as Wagyu beef lard are also great alternatives, depending on the meal/preparation.

[alloysteel]

Shortages? Drill, baby, drill!

Oh. Not that kind of oil....

I guess 5W-20 motor oil is not a substitute.

[dynachrome]

https://baconup.com/

14 oz. to a 3 gallon(!) bucket if you wish.

[Celtic Conservative]

Shell Rotella.

CC

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Whenever you shop for olive oil, be sure to check the label because most are blended oils from several countries.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Country-of-origin-code-and-variety-name-of-49-olive-cultivars-studied_tbl1_6455759

Different olive oils definitely taste differently. From my point of view the best are Italian, and of all things with Californian in second place.

[moovova]

Roadkill squeezings.

[pangaea6]

Lard, bacon grease, coconut oil and tallow

[frank ballenger]

There is no alternative.
—Popeye

[skr]

I gave up on olive oil, just tastes weird to me. Peanut oil for frying meat, ghee for skillet cooking, butter, coconut oil, sunflower or plain old vegetable oil for baking.