Price of Cooking Oil in Australia

We normally buy our cooking oil in about 20 litres at a time, a box of 4 x 4 litre cans of Olive Oil from our local Fruit shop. Our last purchase was at $2.25 per litre, in October 2010, but it is not on special this time, so I am paying $3.25 this year.

Here are some current prices of cooking oil from two of my local supermarkets that I checked on 11th Oct 2011.

The cost per litre is shown on the right, with the cheapest oil at the top. The prices range from $3.20 per litre to $5.60 for Canola Oil and from $3.25 to $14.00 per litre for Olive Oil.

1. $ 5.49 Pure Vita Blended Vegetable Oil 2L $2.70 per litre (A)
2. $ 3.21 Homebrand Oil Canola 1L $3.20 per litre (W)
3. $12.99 Coppa d’Oro Olive Oil $3.25 per litre (F)
4. $ 3.29 Pure Vita Sunflower Oil 1L $3.30 per litre (A)
5. $ 3.29 Pure VitaCanola Oil 1L $3.30 per litre (A)
6. $ 7.19 Homebrand Oil Canola 2L $3.60 per litre (W)
7. $15.99 Remano Pure Olive Oil 4L $4.00 per litre (A)
8. $ 8.59 Family Choice Oil Canola 2L $4.30 per litre (W)
9. $ 4.29 Homebrand Oil Sunflower 1L $4.30 per litre (W)
10. $17.99 Remano Extra Virgin Olive Oil 4L $4.50 per litre (A)
11. $18.26 Golden Oil Canola 4L $4.60 per litre (W)
12. $20.00 Carbonell Olive Oil Spanish 4L $5.00 per litre (W)
13. $ 9.99 Crisco Oil Canola 2L $5.00 per litre (W)
14. $10.52 Golden Fields Oil Sunflower 2L $5.30 per litre (W)
15. $ 4.18 Crisco Oil Canola 750ml $5.60 per litre (W)
16. $23.00 Moro Oil Olive 4L $5.80 per litre (W)
17. $11.81 Crisco Oil Sunflower 2L $5.90 per litre (W)
18. $17.99 The Olive Tree © Oil Extra Virgin Olive oil 3L $6.00 per litre (A)
19. $ 4.99 Casa Barelli Pure/Extra Light Olive Oil 750ml $6.70 per litre (A)
20. $ 5.36 Crisco Oil Sunflower 750ml $7.10 per litre (W)
21. $23.64 Lupi Oil Olive Pure 3L $7.90 per litre (W)
22. $ 5.99 Casa Barelli Extra Virgin Olive Oil 750 ml $8.00 per litre (A)
23. $ 8.59 Homebrand Olive Oil Pure 1L $8.60 per litre (W)
24. $ 5.15 Homebrand Oil Olive Pure 500ml $10.30 per litre (W)
25. $10.48 Always Fresh Oil Olive Pure Spanish 1L $10.50 per litre (W)
26. $ 5.49 The Olive Tree © Australian Extra Virgin Olive Oil 500ml $11.00 per litre (A)
27. $ 6.44 Lupi Oil Olive Italian 500ml $12.90 per litre (W)
28. $ 6.98 Bertolli Oil Olive Classico 500ml $14.00 per litre (W)
29. $ 6.98 Moro Oil Olive Pure 500ml $14.00 per litre (W)

(A) = Aldi
(W) = Woolworths
(F) = My local Fruit and Veg shop

Olive Oil is available in some very different qualities, and I assume the one I buy for $3.25 per litre is not the best 🙂

1. Extra virgin is the highest quality olive oil classification
2. Virgin olive oil
3. Ordinary virgin olive oil
4. Olive oil
5. Olive-pomace oil

There is my one, at the very bottom, but what more is needed for frying chips ? I hope it is better than the Canola oil of the same price though…

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For special use we also have a bottle of the Casa Barelli Extra Virgin Olive Oil, near the other end of the price scale.