Comments on: smoke points

By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:44 +0000

i think reg olive oil has a higher flash point than extra virgin…. that could be of some help.

By: E Buzz Miller

E Buzz Miller — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:03:34 +0000

Hi, sorry I sorta hit and ran, I was on vaca in Florida…now back in frigid Michigan.

Someone on the yahoo list made the comment that they also had the same experience.

What is weird is that I had a few more bottles of Synergy and didn’t get the same feeling…

Weird stuff…weird.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

By: Guerrilla Health

Guerrilla Health — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:56:31 +0000

hey no problem! i’m not sure why some people would react more strongly than others, other than the same way some of us are lightweights with alcohol and some of us can drink espresso before bed… I drink a lot of kombucha and have found it sometime makes me a little high or floaty, but i have had elevated heart rate.

one thing is that being fermented, it contains small amounts of alcohol and maybe the batch you had had a little more? also, what’s in kombucha is probiotics, which is bacteria, so i wonder if there are other bacterial substances that make people high (shrooms, maybe? i’m no expert here).

i tried googling around to see if anyone had your experience but nothing came up right away. let me know if you find anything out!

By: E Buzz Miller

E Buzz Miller — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:22:33 +0000

Came across your blog while searching to find out about something that happened to me after drinking synergy kombucha…namely that I felt like I was on speed, mildly, for two days…I drank three of the bottles over a span of three days and the last day, the day before yesterday, I was FLYING and I can still feel some of the lightness in my muscles.

Strange, strange stuff…I am really curious what it is in there that caused me to have that sort of LSD/shrooms effect for so long. There must be something in there other than acids and vitamins.

It wasnt unpleasant, but I am not sure what the effects of that on the heart is, my hr was definitely elevated.

Sorry about posting this here, I noticed your kombucha post was a fairly long time ago and wanted to let you know about my experience.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:19:18 +0000

Thanks, Sarah. This is definitely a confusing subject, and adding another layer to this is a consideration of which oils are healthiest regardless of smoking point. Olive oil and canola oil are renowned for being “heart healthy”; grapeseed oil does not have this reputation, but supposedly has a very high smoking point. So do we use the “heart healthy” oils with the lower smoking point, or something like grapeseed oil, which does not have the heart healthy reputation but a higher smoking point?

You know where I first heard about olive oil being carcinogenic when cooked? From a certain 1980s TV star who gave a talk I saw about “healthy aging.” I won’t mention her name, though, because I love her too much to have her labeled eternally as an oil-liar.

I’m also a little worried now after reading the Olive Oil Source website, which says that heating oil past the smoking point creates a varnish-like coating on things in your house. I had just recently noticed that the area way above my stove was covered in a mix of dust and varnish-like stuff. I’ve never seen any oil smoke when I cook with it, though. Am I creating my own carcinogens and not even knowing it?

I’ll trust your renowned chef friend, though. And maybe I’ll try cooking at lower temperatures.