You need to follow this rule to select the right Olive Oil!

Here at Texas Angel Oil we are often asked about the intricacies of an olive orchard and what exactly is the number 1 thing to look for in selecting a great extra virgin olive oil. Cutting through the noise and varying view points on this debated subject and utterly ignoring the intended use for your olive oil and we find only one answer summarized in the following simple 3 rules.

Rules for buying the right extra virgin olive oil:

1- Buy Fresh

2- Buy Fresh

3- Buy Fresh

Any extra virgin olive oil you select most likely at one point had an optimal freshness date with a sublime taste worthy of any kitchen. The best olive oils in the world lose their stature over time and this alone is part of the reason many store bought olive oils can taste similar with enough age. "I couldn't tell a difference in olive oil until I tried Texas Angel Oil."- this is common for us to hear this from our customers. To a fully trained palate of an olive oil expert who becomes one with the olive and makes slurping sounds while drinking olive oil will choke on this post, but oh well. Who really drinks olive oil by the way and who in the hell came up with the way self proclaimed olive oil "experts" taste olive oil? Dip your finger in it and taste, or sop some up with some fresh artisan bread, drizzle on a fresh salad, saute some sea bass, or marinate a nice brisket and you will know if it's good. Sorry...I drifted way off topic.

We are hypocrites for the next part of this post! I strongly urge you to look for "born on", "pressed on", or some other type of dating on your olive oil bottle to determine when the olive oil was made to determine it's freshness. Fresh being the name of the game in extra virgin olive oil and the fresher the better is a key fundamental to getting a good/great extra virgin olive oil. We are such a small orchard selling out our inventory after each pressing we (DON'T) have dating on our bottles. Now you know the reason for the hypocrite statement and I'm sure other small olive orchards have the same challenges we do in labeling with dating on each bottle. With that being said you can reach out to your preferred olive oil maker and ask them when their current batch was pressed. With larger olive oil companies who easily can provide dating on each bottle I would build a wary eye if you only see best by dates and no manufacturing dates. Olive oil made in the past 1-6 months is ideal, but olive oil as old as a year properly handled can be worthy of any meal you intend. Texas Angel Oil extra virgin olive oil is typically sold within 3 months of pressing, but can retain it's medium to full robust flavor ideal for all cooking types up to 9 months. Picking on Texas Angel Oil in this example, Texas Angel Oil can still be used up to 2 years after pressing with proper handling and storage. However, once you open your Texas Angel Oil extra virgin olive oil bottle we strongly recommend you use it within 60 days.

Stay fresh my friends!

Interesting tips for olive oil use (no genius required)

Texas Angel Oil extra virgin olive oil is a high quality fresh pressed (2 stage for those who know what that means) olive oil for premium consumption.  For the quality you get with Texas Angel Oil the price is extremely economical.  No not everyone can purchase Texas Angel Oil today due to pricing and product availability.  With that being said we wanted to share some more off beat olive oil uses for that "lesser" olive oil and for those who have gold plated toilets and enjoy finding more uses for Texas Angel Oil.

• Polish wood furniture: dab a small amount of olive oil on a rag with some lemon juice and you have a fresh scented cleaning polish. 
• Shine brass and stainless steel: dab a small amount of olive oil on a rag and wipe away streaks and tarnish.
• Oil squeaky hinges: Apply directly or use a q-tip to apply to that annoying door hing and problem is solved.
• Polish shoes: You guessed it, just a dab on a rag and wipe your shoes to maintain that brilliant shine.
• Leather conditioner: Apply olive oil generously to leather and let it sit for 45 minutes and then wipe away any excess. 
• Stuck zipper: Olive oil has you covered, just dab some on a q-tip and wipe on zipper front and back and problem solved.
• Remove paint: Rub olive oil on skin and let soak for a couple minutes then rinse with soap and water.

Olive oil is an excellent natural lubricant with many amazing uses both in and out of the kitchen.  The list of nontraditional uses is endless and growing.  We will share some of these tips we both find very useful and have used ourselves.  God bless!

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Texas Angel Oil Extra Virgin Olive oil: Fresh 100% Texas Olives in our special blend of Arbequina, Coratina, Leccino, and Picual olives.

Yes we are a family business with both my young children involved.  My son took this product photo (I'm proud of him) and he is growing in his photography skills.

Flavored extra virgin olive oil is all wrong

Apple infused Texas Angel Oil extra virgin olive oil the EVOOs model. Just to be clear this is not real and this is solely meant in jest. However, the photo was taken with my iPhone 6s and I had a random Apple sticker laying around I stuck onto the bottle. Outside of that Apple sticker there is no flavoring or network connectivity.

I actually was going to put something about chocolate olive oil or bacon flavored olive oil, but it turns out those are real flavors. Can't say that I've tried them and I'll continue experimenting with flavors like rosemary, lemon, basil, garlic, jalapeno, chipotle, habanero, garlic, and sriracha. All come with dangers and challenges like, "Botulism".

Botulism, technical name Clostridium botulinum, are bacteria spores that can spread in certain foods when not exposed to oxygen. Fresh extra virgin olive oil does not like oxygen and hence a challenge begins for mass production.

You can avoid botulism with olive oil by heating it and yet again another problem with flavoring olive oil due to fresh olive oil quickly breaking down with heat.

So let's refrigerate it and you get…well you guessed it that yet another problem is confronted with the cooler tempratures damaging the subtle flavors of fresh high quality olive oil.

What to do? At this time I am making no flavored olive oils for mass consumption, but they will be coming when I'm confident quality will not be impacted and the product can be assured safe.

In the meantime you can flavor your own, but I strongly recommend you only flavor small bottles of olive oil and plan to use or discard any unused products within 14 days.

Stay safe my friends for botulism shows not signs in taste or color of the product.

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A meal to remember By CWK

How many meals do you truly remember?

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Know your Olive Oil-getting to the basics by CWK

Getting to the basics of extra virgin olive oil did you know olive oil is made from the olive "fruit"?  Many oils are made from seeds.

- The Mediterranean region currently produces about 94% of the world's olive oil.  Spain leading the pack in producing an estimated half of the worlds olive oil supply.  The U.S. is producing less than 1% of the world's olive oil and the numbers on Texas olive oil production compared to the world almost don't register in percentages.

-Extra Virgin Olive Oil is made without any heat or chemicals, while plain olive oil is a blend of some extra virgin olive and refined olive oil.  Hence the latter has the bland flavor, but unfortunately many think olive oil in general is bland.

-Light or Extra Light olive oil is in reference to the flavor and not the fat or calorie count.  If only my mom knew this one growing up and I might have tried real extra virgin olive oil at a much younger age.  If you like oily goo with no flavor then definitely buy light or extra light olive oil.  For the love of God please don't!

-Extra virgin olive oil is actually not an indicator of the flavor or quality.  With many differing colors of extra virgin olive oil the color alone is not enough to pick the right one.  Extra virgin olive oil is best fresh and with that I encourage you to try Texas Angel Oil.  If you don't try my olive oil there are many incredible producing olive orchards in the U.S., try some of them and you will be shocked.

Texas Olive Ranch, Bella Vista Ranch (Texas Olive Oil), Lone Star Olive Ranch, Central Texas Olive Ranch, and Texas Hill Country Olive Company are all outstanding.  There are a couple of other Texas olive orchards, but I tried the aforementioned companies oil and I hope they continue their success.  Try mine or some other Texas extra virgin olive oil and you will forever be changed in how you view olive oil and realize why Texas is gaining the world's attention for high quality olive oil.

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More Texas Flooding (more rain coming today) by CWK

Funny when you build a company and layout the various pieces as to how
jumbled items can become once you move to execution. Reminds me of a
quote from Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, "no plan of operations
extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main
hostile force". I have often thrown business plans out the window and
even retooled businesses into completely new verticals. Texas Angel Oil
has very loose boundaries as my families company seeks to find the
footing best suited to some of our main goals. Goals: 1)Serve 2)Never
compromise quality 3)Be a light in this darkening world. Very simple
goals and I'm sure you're wondering about sales, messaging,
distribution, etc... strategy. As I posted in the past, Texas Angel Oil
is a unique company due to selling out all the product we can produce
every year. Always be selling, especially when your product is as good
as ours. That's secondary at this unique point in time thanks to God's
blessings.

So our neighbors throughout south central Texas are literally flooding.
The photos are in front of my home in Cypress, including my awesome
redneck neighbor riding through the flood to check on people. More rain
comes today and my great plan of posting about how the Texas Angel Oil
extra virgin olive oil blend of Arbequina, Coratina, Leccino, and Picual
Texas grown olives came to be. My plan did not survive contact with the
enemy so to speak.

1) Serve: If you have been affected by the flood please contact me and
I'll send you Texas Angel Oil extra virgin olive oil at no cost to you.
Contact me at: flood@texasangeloil.com


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