“Extra virgin olive oil” doesn’t mean much these days. However, during this experience, we discovered that that fact was just the tip of an iceberg (if icebergs were made out of olives). I’m now something of an olive oil snob and am hoping to be cast for in an olive oil interpretation of the movie Sideways.

What you don’t know about olive oil:

1. Your olive oil is probably too old

I don’t know about you, but before I participated in this experience, I kept olive oils in my pantry for years. It never crossed my mind that olive oil could go bad. It’s oil! But I was wrong. Olive oil actually goes bad after about four years. It’s best to use the oil within two years. Who knew?