Not an extra virgin olive oil though, or at lest not all extra virgin as the taste is stronger than olive oil and will take away from the flavour of the 'ingredients' Also, just pure olive oil (not EV) is better for frying Rapeseed oil is also a good one to use. When I get more chillies I'm planning in making chilli oil
If it is for a salad dressing and has strong flavours in it (eg chilli) it might be ok, but for more delicate flavours and/or frying I would just use pure or rapeseed
Stacey - that chilli sauce is awesome! Made some this morning (lost the will to live skinning the peppers, though so some were just processed very finely) but the taste is, according to OH (with due deference to The Great Escape) Wow!!!
I do chilli jams and flavouredoils and also freeze spare chillies but last year I also threaded assorted red, yellow and purple chillies on some fine cotton threads and hung them in my kithcen window so they could dry. They looked very festive - to the point that my suspicious daughter had to ask if I was using them as Xmas decs. Who me?
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Not an extra virgin olive oil though, or at lest not all extra virgin as the taste is stronger than olive oil and will take away from the flavour of the 'ingredients' Also, just pure olive oil (not EV) is better for frying
Rapeseed oil is also a good one to use. When I get more chillies I'm planning in making chilli oil 
I was just going to ask about whether the EV would be too strong. Thanks!
If it is for a salad dressing and has strong flavours in it (eg chilli) it might be ok, but for more delicate flavours and/or frying I would just use pure or rapeseed
Stacey - that chilli sauce is awesome! Made some this morning (lost the will to live skinning the peppers, though so some were just processed very finely) but the taste is, according to OH (with due deference to The Great Escape) Wow!!!
I do chilli jams and flavouredoils and also freeze spare chillies but last year I also threaded assorted red, yellow and purple chillies on some fine cotton threads and hung them in my kithcen window so they could dry. They looked very festive - to the point that my suspicious daughter had to ask if I was using them as Xmas decs. Who me?