Extra Virgin Olive Oil for Cooking and Finishing — Why One Bottle Is Never Enough

Most home cooks make the same mistake: one bottle of olive oil for everything. The problem is that the best extra virgin olive oil for cooking is not the same oil you want to use for finishing and dressing your food either once it's cooked or raw.

Using a bold, intensely flavoured early-harvest extra virgin olive oil in a hot pan wastes both the oil and the money you spent on it. Using a mild everyday cooking oil to finish a plate of burrata, or dress a salad produces exactly nothing worth tasting.

The solution is simple: Two bottles, Two jobs. (and an organic option, if desired)

Extra virgin olive oil for cooking needs to be balanced, mellow, and robust enough to handle heat without burning or overpowering your other ingredients. The Coosur Squizz Salteo (Cooking Oil) is exactly that — a full-flavoured picual EVOO from Jaén, Andalusia, built for frying, roasting, sautéing, and air frying. It adds depth to everything it cooks without fighting for attention.

Extra virgin olive oil for finishing and salads needs to be something worth tasting on its own. The Coosur Squizz Cosecha Temprana (Finishing Oil) is an early-harvest picual — picked green at peak intensity, bold and peppery, rich in polyphenols. Pour it raw over salads, fresh bread, pasta, eggs, or anything that needs a proper finishing touch. This is the oil that makes people ask what you did differently.

Both oils are produced at the Coosur mill in Jaén, the olive oil capital of the world, and shipped fresh to Ireland. 100% extra virgin olive oil. No preservatives. No compromise.

For those who want complete peace of mind about what goes into your food, the Coosur Squizz Ecológico is a certified organic extra virgin olive oil produced from organically farmed picual olives in Jaén. No pesticides, no synthetic fertilisers, no shortcuts — just clean, fully traceable EVOO pressed at source and shipped fresh to you. It carries all the intensity and character of a premium Jaén oil with certified organic credentials to match.

Read our blog on these oils and how they compare to the Graza brand