Can you cook with extra virgin olive oil? June 4, 2016 Video Can you cook with Extra Virgin Olive Oil? Extra virgin olive oil is known as being one of the healthiest oils on this planet, however can we cook with it, or will heating the oil create toxic chemicals we shouldn’t be consuming as so many popular blogs seem to express? In this video, I answer this age-old question, and shed light onto a variety of oils that can be used for different recipe purposes. Can You Cook With Extra Virgin Olive Oil? from Kara Landau on Vimeo. For further information on the different cooking oils and their smoke points, check out my full article here.