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Cooking oil smoke points

For Indian cooking, Is Extra Virgin oil safe. We usually do tadka by heating on high temp and it's not good as mentioned on the oils bottle. Or we have to use only for dips, and salads.

Extra-virgin olive oil is primarily for non-high heat, cooking or salad dressings, etc. For higher heat, Indian cooking or as an all-purpose oil we like canola oil for that reason. The refined version is safer for high heat if you want to use and that can be used for Tadka as well

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