Cumbria.pm anyone?

[John Costello]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Butter cut with olive oil. The butter's there for flavour and the  
> olive oil is there to raise the cooking temperature. If you make it a  
> bacon, egg and mushroom butty, you can skip the olive oil because  
> you'll get the lard that's come out of the bacon.

I recall that butter has a higher smoke point than olive oil.  Wikipedia 
agrees, for what that is worth.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point>

Ah, no, that's wrong.  Low acidity olive oil does have a higher smoke
point than butter, as does "extra light" (*spit*).
 
> I don't really see the point in sunflower oil - all the calories of  
> butter but fuck all taste.

You may as well use walnut or sesame oil and get some flavor, or just use 
olive oil.