When summertime comes, you can almost guarantee it brings two things with it.

Delicious food and summer parties.

If you are looking for new recipes to bring to your next summer shindig, we've got you covered.

Today we'll share how to incorporate essential oils into your summer recipes.

Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting,

useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field.

If you like what you hear today, rate, review,

and subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate hearing from you. Today we're excited to talk

to Samantha Lewis about how you can use essential oils in your cooking to create delicious summer

recipes. Samantha, thank you so much for being here with us today.

Thanks so much for having me. So cooking with essential oils is something that maybe not a lot of

people are familiar with. So if I am new to cooking with essential oils, what are some of the

things I need to know? Cooking with essential oils, my take on it is

mostly for flavor unless you're not heating up the oils, because like with everything, each

essential oil has a flashpoint, which means they all have a temperature that they basically

burn off at, which can remove potential benefits, but it does leave a flavor behind.

That's really interesting.

So if you're planning on putting essential oils in raw foods, you'll definitely get the benefits and the flavor.

But if you're deciding to cook with it, you're just looking for the flavor to replace the dry herbs that you'd probably use.

Cooking with essential oils is also an easy, clean, and honestly less expensive way to season a dish because you want to use them sparingly.

Essential oils are concentrated versions of the plant, so you don't need much.

You can always add more, but you can't take anything away.

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