Why You Need to Stop Putting Essential Oils in Food
Hello! Please stop cooking with essential oils.Yes, normally writers bury the lede in a flurry of clickbait, but this is too important, so let's get to it: Essential oils are pricey, can be dangerous, and are easy to over do without proper instruction. You know what else is expensive? The degree you need to fully understand the dosage, interactions, and potential issues that could arise from improperly dosing your dinner guests. You know what’s not expensive? Dried spices.Now that the deep-seated huns have left to email my boss, I can continue to inform the rest of you why adding drops of medicinal-grade oils to your pasta sauce is just not a great idea.Essential oils used to be relegated to the medicine cabinet. This made sense, as they’re basically "plant concentrate", and, before the di...