Check your math Sween....68 oz is about 2 quarts....and for $11 something, pleanty cheap...but then so are a lot of other things at Sam's...like Bombay gin and basamati rice. Buying in quantity tends to reduce the price per oz or per item.....this same oil costs a lot more by the 8 oz bottle at the grocery store. Yes...it IS EVOO....green and fruity. They have several brands at about the same price. The bottle I currently have is Bertoli...it gets pretty firm and cloudy at refrigerator temps. I bought it to make a boat load of pesto ( incidentally using Parmaganio Reggiano I bought at Sams for about $12 a pound) and found I liked it a lot. Incidentally I also know my way around a kitchen....and spent a lot of years feeding my family dinner like they might eat at a fine resturaunt on a daily basis. Ever been to a fancy food show? The display of olive oils is amazing, displayed in footed wine glasses, with a dish and bread cubes for sampling....and about every color of yellow, amber, green and olive....all of them very pricey EVOOs. There are the Greeks, and the Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, Isralis etc....all with their tables set out showing their oils. Olive oil is rather like wine....experts can tell where and when the fruit was grown.....and price doesn't always equate with the best taste. And I fry things in EVOO....as well as in butter....and a mix of the two......and unless I get a phone call and am distracted, things sautee well and never burn! Linda C

If it tastes fine to you, go ahead and eat it. I have heard that rancid oils can inhibit your absorbtion of some nutrient, but forget what. I have been served rancid crackers that no one seems to think are awful, certainly rancid nuts and muffins made from rancid mixes, pies with crusts that must have spent 2 years in the freezer and gotten rancid.....and I seemed to be the only one turning up my nose. So if it tastes good to you, go ahead and eat it....but I have learned from experience to taste an oil of it's been around for a while, before I mix it with other ingredients. No need to spoil a whole batch of stuff. What does rancid taste like? Ever find 3 Ritz crackers in the bottom of a cracker tin that had likely been there since the flood? That's what rancid tastes like! Linda C

Yes it will go rancid.Keep it refrigerated.It will harden when it is refrigerated but just sit it out for a bit before you plan to use it.If you buy the larger size,which is more economical,you could put the amount you think you will use in a weeks time in a smaller container and refrigerate the rest.I have one of those bottles with the pour spout sitting on the cabinet that I use for cooking,etc.It will keep a couple of weeks before it starts to taste "funny".

This nifty funnel is a good stopper and opens to a funnel for easy refilling.