Homemade Olive Oil 🫒 Is it possible? Is it worth it?

[@dorodense]

I had once visited an associate in the south of France who had a large house in the middle of large lavender and olive plantations. He was not a farmer but a wealthy businessman with a passion for cooking. He used olive oil extracted from his own olives. In his gazebo he had a manual cast iron oil press clamped to a table. He pressed oil from very ripe olives that were oozing with oil. It was a small contraption and of course, not one for handling large quantities, but was effective.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Ok 👍🏼 thanks for sharing your experience

[@dorodense]

@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato 👍

[@JontyBlue67]

This is why I love your channel 🥰. You provide 'spectacular' content and information regardless of the success of the end result. Where the end result is not successful you help others learn and hopefully prevent them from the same pitfalls. It also gives credibility to your end results that are 'spectacular'. Great video, thank you!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks ☺️

[@jejethejeplalq821]

Best channel for homemade essential cooking ingredients👌Which i love.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks ☺️ my dear

[@blairmarriott3737]

I made a little oil last year using this press and unless you have a serious amount of olives its just for fun as you only get a little but top quality . Another thing is anyone whos looking to buy olive trees for oil a good variety is the greek variety Koronieki they are very high in oil and quality .

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks for the advice 👍🏼

[@jakattah]

I attended a olive oil making course years ago and they had a washer, augur, malaxer and a centrifuge. All made in Italy and out of stainless steel. Each part is expensive as it was larger batches than yours. Not sure if there are those made that are small. Glad you attempted this.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 👍🏼 very expensive tools

[@rickf.9253]

Thank you for doing this video. I have wondered if that machine would work for olive oil, now I know. You saved me from an expensive disappointment. Do you or any viewers know of any equipment that will work to make olive oil at home?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Sorry 😞 I don’t know 😬 you need big tools probably

[@godsowndrunk1118]

How did the oil that you did get, taste? Spectacular....or maybe not?

[@AwesomeFish12]

I'd also like to know. He said it was a failure, so probably not great.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

I need to wait 😉 let se next week

[@sunderrajsolomon1439]

You really have lot of patients keep it up👍😊

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 👍🏼 let’s see the next experiment 😉🫒

[@cardboardmusic]

I'm so glad you made the video as I'm about to harvest my olives (up in Belgium). I normally just make olives for aperitifs, but had thought on a few occasions to try and make oil. However, after watching you, I think I'll stick with the aperitifs again this year.

[@marritjansen3542]

Olive trees in Belgium?

[@josemariacornelis4165]

The climate has already changed that much? Belgium has a Mediterranean climate now?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 😂👍🏼🫒 good idea

[@cardboardmusic]

​@@marritjansen3542 Yes, olives in Belgium. I only have one tree, but I get between 1.5kg to 2.5kg depending on the year. I just started harvesting today, but only collected the low lying olives (1.5kg). I guess I should get about another 500 to 700g from the upper part (meaning I have to get on a step ladder).

[@marritjansen3542]

@@cardboardmusic that's awesome!!

[@bryanpeart]

The food scientists are back!!! Very interesting!!! Ciao!!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

😂👍🏼 grazie

[@HussamTabanjeh]

Grazie mille per il tuo impegno nel rispondere alla mia domanda, adoro il tuo canale da Giordania 🙏🇯🇴🇮🇹

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Grazie mille ☺️

[@timlangley1886]

Good work. Thanks for the time put into this project.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks 🥳👍🏼🫒

[@ronniandersen499]

Good video and thanks for being honest…we need more honest people out there 🤗🤗🤗 I will not complain about the price for extra virgin oil anymore

[@imeekamland660]

😊

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 😂 me too

[@Info-God]

​@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolatoIt tripled in 2 years.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 😬

[@eddiegalantzan7288]

Is there good equipment for a small quantity?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

I have not found yet 😬 sorry

[@antonius9098]

Ottimo video e setup! Forse la macina avrebbe bisogno di un fabbro o di un adattatore a tubo per cambiarne la forma e alimentare più olive allo stesso tempo. Spero di poterti dare qualche altra idea. Credo che ora ti manchi solo una centrifuga per separare più efficacemente la pasta di olive dall’olio, quindi se ne estrai meno di quanto ti aspetteresti potrebbe dipendere da quello. Il processo potrebbe essere aiutato portando la temperatura della pasta verso i 27 gradi, e l’olio estratto, sia per decantazione che per centrifuga, sarebbe ancora considerato “cold pressed”. Senza nocciolo, forse si estrae più olio a freddo; potresti aggiungere i noccioli macinati magari alla terza estrazione. Per estrarre altro olio dopo la prima estrazione dalla stessa pasta, potresti ripetere la procedura a 40-50 gradi, anche se questa seconda estrazione potrebbe non essere considerata ancora “cold pressed”. Dopo una seconda estrazione, potresti provare con una terza. Più alta sarà la temperatura, più olio potresti separare dalla pasta di olive. Tuttavia, temperature superiori ai 70 gradi potrebbero iniziare a cambiare la composizione dell’olio, riducendone la qualità. L’olio di terza estrazione potrebbe avere un sapore più leggero, magari più adatto per friggere.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Grazie mille per i consigli 👍🏼

[@فوزيعياد-ذ6ب]

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[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Grazie 🤗

[@makramkubeisy611]

If you do the malaxation properly, you should get between 1.5 and 2 liters of oil from 10 kg of olives.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 👍🏼

[@toomaskotkas4467]

If only I had an olive tree growing in my backyard...

[@GnosticChef]

You don’t have to wish for something when you can go to you local hardware store or plant nursery and just get one. Don’t use excuses when it’s just your choice

[@boguslaw1129]

@@GnosticChef I live in Poland and I would love to, but not here...but...climate is changing, so maybe one day a short trip to the Spain or Italy just for the trees seedling?...Who knows :)

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@GnosticChef Only if the climate change happens. Otherwise this month I will have only +10 during the day time.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

You should move here in the south of Italy 😉

[@Idontwantachannel67]

I also tried a hand crank grinder to press olives. Got about a teaspoon of oil out of 1 cup of olives, maybe mine were more oily. It might have damaged my grinder because now paint is flaking off and i cant use it for anything else. Gave up in the end. My friend worked at an olive oil factory and they have a huge machine that crushes then spins the olive pulp very fast - a centrifuge, and tons of bright green oil comes out. So technically you need one machine to crush into a pulp, and another to spin the pulp fast to get the olive oil out. I would also love to have a miniature at home version of this. Still looking. 👀 😅

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks for the information 👍🏼 yes 😬 very complicated

[@oceanbeliever681]

Chef, you have many skills!!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Not this one 😂

[@morrismonet3554]

I will just continue to buy extra virgin olive oil. I'm not going to ask how to make baby oil. 😂

[@BlackJesus8463]

Fake olive oil is a problem.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

😂👍🏼 good idea

[@ruel1983]

The main problem is how to filter the olive oil from its own particles. I tried with fabric, but its not filtered out the particles completely. Im trying different methods. Will update you soon. Thanks for your video, you saved me money, because i almost bought exactly this type of machine.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks 👍🏼 keep us updated if you find the solution

[@littletownie4008]

Thank you for the informative video.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks 👍🏼

[@shirasezan]

thanks good that you explain it ,,,,BUT can you press COCOUNT to make oil with this machine

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

In theory yes but you should cut it in small pieces

[@htaf9974]

thank you so much

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Welcome 🤗

[@LeDrapeauBlanc]

Thanks for the video!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks for watching it 👍🏼

[@pucky900]

OMG.... that is a lot of work for a little bit of oil. I think I'll stick to purchasing olive oil. Great video!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Good idea 😂

[@raubunuluratul]

As an experiment, is it possible to dry or dehydrate the olives and use them in that machine?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 👍🏼 I will try 😉 also some other saying to try in this way

[@RamonMarais-k2k]

What a question. How did people get olive oil long ago?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Stone and press. But a lot of olives 🫒😂

[@jerzygniazdowski6228]

Very good, good luck.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

😂👍🏼🫒🤪 thanks

[@HussamTabanjeh]

May I request you to use the (slow juicer) machine to press the olive paste please, grazie

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

It will be the same problem, water and oil will stay together

[@u5ernam3unavailabl3]

What will you do with the remaining olives?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

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[@samanthabowman6288]

I was just searching for homemade olive oil videos just before you posted this. It's odd as I came to the same conclusion and it made me wonder why the pressing of olives under stone actually became a thing as it seems so much labor, time and fruit produce such little return... Did olives used to be bigger and contain more oil in ancient times?

[@BlackJesus8463]

Its a preservation method.

[@samanthabowman6288]

@@BlackJesus8463 ok, but surely sun-drying, or a simple brine or vinegar solution would be more cost-effective?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

In the past it was expensive for that reason 🫒😉

[@ivans3806]

I think for the ancient people it was a good source of vegetable fats, relatively "easily" obtainable by simple tools. It was worth the effort for the nutritional value...

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

@ivans3806 👍🏼

[@adenwellsmith6908]

Is it too early for the harvest? What if you try later?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

👍🏼 yes but probably I will have the same results

[@adenwellsmith6908]

@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato I did live south of you when I was young. I can't remember the exact time of year when the olives were harvested. But to produce the oil it was a stone wheel on a pole, a trough and a donkey walking around to crush the olives. [Libya]. By the way I think this is first failure I've seen you have. Well done for putting that up.

[@makramkubeisy611]

I’m a big fan of your channel! You have missed a very important step. After the olives are crushed they have to be malaxed (mixed and agitated) for at least 20 to 30 minutes before pressing so the oil is released from the paste. There is still lots of oil trapped inside because you skipped this important part.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Thanks for the advice but same problem with the oil in the water, still stuck in the water

[@AwesomeFish12]

Honestly I think your logic seemed good. Watching videos of how stone ground olive oil is made in the traditional way, I don't know why your method failed, it was just extremely scaled down. I hope you get it right next time. Good luck Andrea. I know you will work it out.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 😂👍🏼🫒 let’s see

[@bryanpeart]

Yeah, that's too much work... Well done!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

😂

[@YOSEFPE]

can you try use dry olives on the machine ?

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

I will 👍🏼 I am drying the other 6 kg of olives in the sun ☀️

[@Xcoria]

Why are the trees dying?

[@BlackJesus8463]

no rain

[@hathor82]

xylella in the last 10 years thousand of olive trees in Puglia died because of this bacteria

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Xylella

[@Xcoria]

@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato aha, thank you

[@Blue.1887]

You did not try the oil for us😢

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Maybe next week

[@Blue.1887]

@@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato That would be spectacular!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

@Blue.1887 😉👍🏼🫒

[@HoferAdam-xz9xz]

Grande laborrare 😂

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Grazie

[@imeekamland660]

😊😋😋😋

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

🥳👍🏼

[@antoniovieira1832]

Amazon says its 800€..

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

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[@HoferAdam-xz9xz]

Allora fradello andrea.now I have flow.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

😱

[@highlandermachineworks5795]

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[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

I agree but sometimes there is no choice 😂

[@colinthompson7422]

Relax! We are all dead eventually anyway. Try to enjoy your journey, pass on some learning, love, laugh, let go. We’re not getting out of this alive.

[@jamesdim]

Thank you for going to the trouble of doing all this. So now we know it doesn't work!

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 👍🏼 it doesn’t 😬

[@nzs316]

The result is a disaster! Short, sweet and simply assessed.

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

😂👍🏼 thanks

[@shawnkay5462]

omg thats so time consuming

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

Yes 😬

[@dougaltolan3017]

Sorry, you lost me in the first 15 seconds... No way can I compete on price (no olive trees in Scotland) 😊

[@Spectacular-cuoredicioccolato]

😂 but you have other good stuff 🥃😉