In case you’re like me and commonly spend your evenings scrolling by way of the #pasta part of TikTok along with your chin pressed to your chest, wine glass in hand, you’ve possible come throughout Graza. This squeeze bottle olive oil is actually a viral sensation, with residence cooks and TikTok cooks squirting it into their pans and drizzling it over their salads with abandon.

When I first noticed the bottle I was intrigued, positive, however principally skeptical. This bottle has all the pieces going for it to make it TikTok well-known—particularly, a wise design and enjoyable graphics. However the entire critiques that I noticed about Graza went on and on in regards to the performance… not the style. And that raised a crimson flag to me.

Not to sound too earnest and cringe-y, however I’m a reasonably ~severe~ residence chef. I freakin’ like to prepare dinner. I’ve been cooking since I was tall sufficient to face on a step stool and attain the counter to assist my mom roll cookie dough. I write a weekly e-newsletter about my household’s recipes, lots of which contain frying or sautéing with olive oil (Or simply drizzling a ton of that sh*t over the completed product). So, positive, as somebody who has ruined many a shirt with an errant splash of olive oil as I glugged it right into a pan, a squeeze bottle was interesting. However how did it style?

Fortunately, the type of us at Graza despatched me their Drizzle & Sizzle Selection Pack to check drive. Drizzle is their “ending oil,” which implies it’s the type you utilize for dressing, not for cooking. That’s as a result of, like most further virgin olive oil, it has a decrease smoke level than different oils, so it may possibly shortly flip rancid in your pan if it’s over-heated—the kiss of loss of life for any residence prepare dinner (together with the Dealer Joe’s frozen meals ones). Sizzle, then again, was made for cooking at a excessive warmth, thanks largely to the kind of olive they use to make it. So that is the oil that you just toss into your pan if you need to get sh*t cooking.

My bundle got here round Valentine’s Day, so not solely did I obtain two bottles, however a bar of darkish chocolate as nicely. The directions instructed me to interrupt off a chunk of chocolate, add a few drops of Drizzle, after which prime with flakey sea salt. I shortly whipped up the snack for my boyfriend and I, and once we bit into it, we immediately checked out one another. “HOLY sh*t!” I exclaimed. We have been off to a scrumptious begin.

Over the following month, he and I made dozens of dishes with each Sizzle and Drizzle. I fried hen cutlets, flipped zucchini fritters, and sautéd tomatoes for a contemporary pomodoro sauce with Sizzle. We, nicely, drizzled Drizzle over salads and put swimming pools of it into tiny ramekins to dunk sourdough bread. I even began squirting it over vanilla ice cream. We used each bottles so typically that we ran out of them after a month and a half—that’s how good they’re.

And the squirt bottle prime proved to be extremely helpful. So typically I’d glug olive oil out of big canisters, getting it in all places and inflicting my pantry cabinets to turn out to be slick with goop. However Graza was completely different. Graza was neat. Graza was good.

So sure, I was efficiently #influenced into shopping for my very own bottles of Graza after my gifted set was depleted. I imply it when I say that by no means earlier than in my 33 years as a proud Italian-American lady from the desk flip capital of the world (New Jersey) have I tasted an olive oil pretty much as good as this. It’s earned a coveted, everlasting spot in my pantry. And for that purpose, I won’t shut the f*ck up about it.

Store It: Graza Drizzle & Sizzle Selection Pack, $35, Graza.com