On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:46:29 +0100, "Matti Lamprhey"
wrote:

My own research doesn't back up your figure of 210C for the smoking
point of olive oil (or the other ones you quoted, either).

If you look at

http://www.oliveoilsource.com/olivechemistry.htm

that gives a smoke point of 420F for virgin olive oil, which is around
215C.

So which is correct?

Dave W.