ransley wrote:
On Feb 10, 8:38 am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
Bought some extra virgin olive oil some years ago. It wasn't brilliant,
didn't get used very much, and eventually got abandoned in favour of a
better one. Still have two 1l bottles in the garage, long way past the
use-by date, and it's got even worse with age - now smells rather like
oil based gloss paint. (I'm dubious about contamination from the plastic
bottles - only by it in glass bottles now.) Can anyone think of anything
useful to do with it which doesn't involve eating it (or smelling it)?

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Andrew Gabriel
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Its a food, it went bad because of age not the plastic, freezing it
would have kept it fine, all food oils will go bad, just as will many
whole grains go bad in a few months. Uses for rancid cooking oils? the
garbage.

Chuck some caustic soda in and convert it to soap. Knight's Castille was
made that way I think.