Is it normal to mostly cook with olive oil?

Olive oil has a low smoke point (the lower quality stuff, at least) - I prefer avocado oil or butter for frying.

I have lived and worked in France, Italy, Greece and switzerland and surprisingly the Swiss are the heaviest Olive Oil users.

i use it a lot

I cook with virgin olive oil. It's supposed to be the healthiest of the cooking oils and it has it's own taste.
Gives a little bit of extra taste richness to anything you're cooking

And I use it on salads too, so one less extra bottle cluttering up the kitchen.

The small bottles are the worst value for money, so what I usually do is buy a 5L can, cause it's usually the best way to go and I give half of it to a friend in exchange for half the price and done...
2.5L of high quality extra virgin olive oil for about 15-20 bucks and it's enough for many months.

Use extra virgin olive oil. Regular olive oil is unhealthy.

If you use bad ones. I use stone ones. They are safe.

Coconut oil is good. But moderation, man, moderation.

i buy frozen french fries slather em in olive oil and bake em in the oven at fairly high temp so the oil helps crisp em up

i like em crunchy

I put reckless amount of butter on everything. I also started saving my bacon grease bc there was no butter in grocery stores.

Olive oil is one of those topics I can go on about at length. No apologies for the details below, since a lot of issues surround it, but I'll give you a TLDR:

There's nothing wrong with cooking with genuine olive oil, and it's likely that it's a better choice than the alternatives. However, it isn't wise to pick your olive oil based only on price, and you might want to do some internet research to find out which brands sold in your area can be relied on to be genuine.

I lived on a small farm in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains for several years, and we had about forty olive trees. That's a small grove by Italian standards. The mountains aren't the place to grow olives if you're looking for a big harvest of olives, but lots of neighbouring farms had hundreds of trees which produced oil for their extended families and probably a little for sale in good years.

The big commercial farms in the major olive-growing areas of Italy have thousands of trees.

In a good year, when the weather was just right, we could get over a hundred litres of oil from our trees, but there were other years when there were so few olives that we didn't bother to harvest. Since we don't use olive oil nearly as much as Italians, we never had a shortage. In fact, we're only now finishing up the last of the oil from our 2013 harvest, and the fact that there's still not the slightest hint of rancidity says a lot about how long olive oil can last if it's produced and stored with some care.

Italians use olive oil for absolutely everything, including deep-frying, and they rarely use the sunflower, canola (rape-seed), corn or other vegetable oil that's common in northern European countries and the USA. Since there's strong evidence that the traditional Mediterranean diet is very good in health terms and olive oil is a significant component of that diet, then it should be pretty obvious that olive oil is definitely not bad for you.

If you want to find out some other reasons olive oil is just about the least-bad fat you can use, have a look here: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-proven-benefits-of-olive-oil

However, even if all those claims about the benefits of olive oil are true, it is just as high in calories as any other oil or fat. Clearly, guzzling the stuff by the glassful wouldn't do anything positive for your waistline.

The interesting thing about olive oil compared to other vegetable oils is that there's so little processing involved. The production of most vegetable oils (and non-virgin olive oil) requires the use of chemical solvents and some heavy-duty processing to extract the oil from the seed-pulp. All that's done to get Virgin Olive Oil is that the olives are crushed and the oil is separated from the fruit's juice by the same low temperature, centrifugal process that's used to separate cream from milk. We used to take our crates of olives to the local mill, watch them being processed and take home the containers of oil a couple of hours later.

Having said all that, there is a real and continuing problem with olive oil in that organised crime has become involved in the trade. It has been found in the past that some oil that was supposedly pure olive oil was actually a blend of mainly cheaper vegetable oil, just enough olive oil to give it a hint of the olive oil aroma and a smidgen of fat-soluble food colouring to tint it.

By the way, it's best to avoid "light" olive oil. It has exactly the same calories as normal olive oil, but it's just been processed to remove all the flavouring and colours (and the supposedly beneficial trace compounds) that exist in Virgin Olive Oil, so what you end up with is as bland as any other seed oil.

You also should take with a large grain of salt any label on olive oil that says "Made in Italy". For a very long time, Italy has been a major _importer_ of olive oil from other Mediterranean countries. The big-name olive brands buy the stuff by the railway tanker, blend it with a little Italian oil in their Tuscan plants, and slap a pretty label on the bottle saying that it was made there. Strictly speaking, that's true, and Italian oil isn't (no matter what an Italian might say) inherently better than oil from trees growing elsewhere, but it's clearly a fundamentally dishonest practice.

Unless you're willing to spend an awful lot on a bottle of oil, you're never going to get anything with the aroma and flavour punch that oil fresh from the mill packs, but there is some decent oil out there.

No oil is healthy

No it's not healthy. In moderation its ok however. But that's pretty much it. Moderation being the important word. My ex cooked everything in oil and it was impossible to keep the kitchen clean. He was always like I'm an oily person etc but na he was fat and just ate to much damn fatty stuff.

Be better to your body than that. I love candy it's my weakness I cant deny it. Even a little and I get canker sores for like 2 weeks and it sucks. (God I ate so much today I'm so fucked.) So o get wanting to eat stuff that's good but not good for you. You just gotta be better than that. Be better than me.

It’s not healthy but it does make things taste better. You could try using fry light or something