Making our own olive oil

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We take a step back into the past to a month ago in the autumn on the farm, where we see Jonny topless it was so warm. You join us as we continue our olive harvest and start the process of making our own olive oil. But, we had a shockingly long wait on two occasions at the Coopertiva to drop off our olives so we looked into ways we could improve our experience and perhaps even improve the quality of our olive oil and we found this VEVOR Oil Press Machine: s.vevor.com/bfQJjQ If you're interested in purchasing one of these machines then use the discount code "VVSALE5" for 5% off. We'd like to do some further tests with the machine but we found it worked fantastically with nuts and actually Jonny used that hazelnut oil to fix all of the creaking hinges in our house haha!! I guess it's cheaper and more environmentally friendly than WD40.
As I mentioned in the video I'm also interested to make some natural products with the oil and the waste product especially soap as that's something we buy quite a lot of and not only would we like to live more sustainably but also cut our living costs down by trying to grow and harvest the things we need (or enjoy) ourselves. In this video we show off a couple of our portable power stations which we use on a regular (daily!) basis with solar panels, the beginning of our off grid (well, as off grid as possible) journey.
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[@gundisaluusmenendiz]

Galega is my ultimate favorite olive for almost any dinner plate!

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Ahhh nice! We’ve still got some on the trees maybe we’ll pick them for eating 😃

[@ceeb1452]

To get Extra Virgin you need to pick early. Actually the earlier the better as far as quality goes, preferably before the 1st rains. Your local mill looks like a nightmare!!! Think you could drive to Alferrarede and back and still be ahead on the clock. This is a new mill, you do not even have to clean them, then you pick up in December and the oil comes in lovely labeled bottles, so great to give as gifts. Those bigger olives look fantastic for eating :)

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

I think we’ll certainly look into a different lagar this year and thank you so much for the advice 😃👌

[@camperbuildingandtraveling9749]

Hi, this is from the website. Question: CAN YOUR MACHINE EXTRACT OLIVE OIL? Answer This Question Answer: Yes, first remove the olive pit, and then break the olive meat into particles the size of soybeans and peanuts. Another important point is that the olive meat must be dry and not wet. Before pressing the oil, preheat the machine heater for about 8 minutes. When the raw materials are normal, they can be put into the hopper of the oil press to extract oil.

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Very interesting thank you! We do need to try some other methods with the olives but for now we can make some great nut and seed oils with the machine 😎🙌

[@Aotruba]

✨️🎄🌟Thank you for sharing this video! 🎉❄️🎄✨️

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Awh thanks for watching 😃💫🎄🌟

[@jaimeconceicao]

Without noticing it, you're slowly becoming portuguese. In a few years, you'll be one of us... Wish you both a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Pelos vistos já conseguem falar algum português... GOOD, keep it going!!!!!

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

We are also working on it and have a real passion and want to integrate into the community, we absolute love speaking with the locals they have so much knowledge and experience and their absolutely beautiful attitude towards life is just stunning 😍 boa ano novo também e muita obrigada

[@jaimeconceicao]

@@jonnyandsamofficial thank you. You should use bom ano novo, because ano ( year) is a masculine word. If it was a feminine word, it was ok, like in " boa noite( evening)", meaning good evening. Best of luck for you both and above all, stay and be happy!!!!!!

[@AlongThePathsOfNature]

Merry Christmas to you! @AlongThePathsOfNature

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Hope you had a fantastic time 😃🙌

[@stevenpoels4639]

Best video yet....good music ,you having fun,fat cinematic...joy☺️🔥☁️🕊❤️🌈🌈

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Awh thanks so much 😃 we try our best 🎄🌟❤️🥳💫🫒

[@donnamaree2311]

Merry Christmas Sam and Jonny, looks like it would take ages to make oil, but it would be satisfying seeing the end product ,

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Always a pleasure to hear from our Aussie friend 😃 is it going to be a warm Christmas for you? I think we need to do some more tests as it worked much better with the nuts 🌰 Oh for sure if we can get this to work it’ll improve the process and quality hugely 😎

[@donnamaree2311]

Sam, l think they are saying rain and storms haha, it went from 30deg Celsius, to maybe 21 haha, but it can say rain, and we miss it here, l think it will be muggy and humid haha. It's a mystery, l don't mind either way.

[@neutonrenda2303]

Merry Christmas, have a wonderful Christmas, filled with loads of love, laughter and off-road action.❤

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

We hope you’re having an awesome festive season too! 😃❤️ loads of love and laughter to you also

[@Reet64]

Can't imagine that method is any better than waiting in line at the coop. Merry Christmas to you!

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

We missed the well known mushroom festival in Alcaide the following day because we were so tired from waiting in the coop queue, so it did kinda ruin us for a bit. We also don’t think we are quite doing it right so we’ll do some more tests. It was also very disappointing to get qualified as virgin rather than extra virgin at the coop after all of that hard work but we think it was because we mainly had one variety on show and they only test the top of the bucket. We’re still going to look into ways to improve the olive oil making process to not only improve the efficiency and quality of the oil but also our enjoyment from the comfort of our own home 😃 it worked super well for nuts though and as I mentioned in the description Jonny has been using that to fix creaky doors in the house 😅 Awh thanks so much merry Christmas 🎄 to you too and thanks for watching

[@quantaca5773]

I may be remembering this wrong, but i believe its when the olives are still (mostly) green its classed as extra virgin.

[@jamesbishop7219]

That’s a lovely stream, and I love your beard Jonny❤ x

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Thank you 😃 it needs some more work but we have time 🧘‍♀️❤️

[@module79l28]

Here's another story to enrich your knowledge about the portuguese olive harvest: in the old days, after the harvest, there were many olives left on the ground, so the farmers would let groups of young women come pick them up for themselves. It was called "rabisco" and that action (so to speak) was called "ir ao rabisco". Why only young women, you might ask? Because usually they would sell the "rabisco" olives to get some money for their layette. 🙂 Unfortunately, like many others, that's a tradition that has been abandoned.

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Thank you for sharing that with us 😃 I wonder why the tradition was abandoned…

[@module79l28]

@@jonnyandsamofficial - Because of the "evolution" of times: the layette tradition faded away and so did the need to resort to everything that could bring some extra money to buy things for it.

[@chr11sf]

Thats some hardcore waiting around 💪...I'm with Jonny, can't stand hornets and wasps...my hornet dance is something to behold 😂....Not sure about that liquid your press made...reminds me of the colonoscopy room i was working in today 😮...but i'm sure it tasted better 😉

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

We’ve heard of and seen longer queues than that too… 14 hours+ 😬 haha you guys will have to have a hornet dance off 🐝 😅 oh damn! No thank you! We need to look into it more as we think perhaps we have to press the paste

[@arjanvogel6444]

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, happy Christmas and a lucky New year.

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Nice to hear from you Arjan 😃 much love and blessing to you too! Merry Christmas, happy new year and thanks for watching 🎄🎅

[@maryjanevasconcellos9013]

What a marvelous harvest you made! The olives from that region are wonderful. Sam, do you know the price of olive oil in the market? It´s insane! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Awh thanks Mary Jane 😃 it’s nice to hear from you. They sure do look great and we really enjoyed our first harvest. Yes it’s really gone up. Unfortunately I think we only have enough for ourselves this year and not enough to sell especially as Jonny is working on pruning all of the trees and so next year we might not get a crop 🤷🏻‍♀️ we’ll see… but we are taking our time we’re not in a rush 😃 Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too 😃❤️🎄🌟💫

[@101life9]

Happy New Year ❤🎉 Awesome harvest! You guys played hard and worked just as hard. Hahaha...Sam is a brave lady in dealing with the hornets 😂😂

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Boa ano novo também 😃 thanks so much! Ahhh they’re pretty docile them European ones it was fine… I’ve dealt with more dangerous animals 😎 🐍

[@999carlosjorge]

Sam have you counted all olive trees??there must be more than 300, I guess.That's hard labour.I think your new olive press,just makes the paste and that paste needs to be centrifuged to expell the pure oil,I remember seeing this when I was young,the village lagar was close to home,but making olive oil, produces an awfull stinky smell that makes you almost puke.I can't believe the congestion from morning till after midnight hehehe makes you want to let the olives on the trees hehehe and go to the supermarket instead.Merry Christmas!!

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

I sure have, we have 156 trees. Some of them are really small or in some brambles though but we will get around to uncovering them 😃 yes I think you’re right we need to do a further step with the cold press paste. Oh this smell was quite nice I even put some of the paste stuff on my face, felt nice and soft afterwards 🙌 haha we will keep trying and learning

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Merry Christmas to you too Carlos and your family 😃

[@omarZZQQ]

What the name of the song in the beginning of the video ? and Merry Christmas .

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

It’s called “Cuts so deep” we license all of our music from “Artlist” 😃 hope you had a great festive holiday!

[@portugal1969]

Ide rather wait 6 hrs

[@gnarly706]

I think the scummy stuff supposed to be pressed, or u meant buy a better machine.

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

We’re going to look further into pressing the paste 😃 there’s gotta be something we’re doing wrong

[@antoniodasilva1230]

T.hat machine is a waste of money and trash olive oil ain't supposed to be dark like wine 😅

[@module79l28]

It might be good for nuts or seeds but definitely not for olives. There's more things involved in extracting oil from olives than what that machine does. If it was that easy to make olive oil, no one would take their olives to the "lagares", right?😉

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

We’re not sure if we were doing it right with the olives but the nuts worked very well indeed 😃

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

You make a good point @module79l28 but we are still going to look into ways to do it ourselves and improve the process and quality of our oil 😎

[@antoniodasilva1230]

@@jonnyandsamofficial stick with making oil from the nuts i personally would not use it for olive oil

[@jaimemarques8299]

Those are not european hornets those seem to me to be asian hornets and they are very dangerous

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

We’ve checked with friends and locals and they all say they’re European even the old owner. These are so placid and not in anyway aggressive I spent approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour around that tree and they were barely even interested. We double checked against some photos online and we still think European. If they’re Asian we could get them removed by the GNR (or camara) as far as I’m aware but European not 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Thank you for your concern though ❤️

[@gnarly706]

Why does he need a helmet on?

[@jonnyandsamofficial]

Safety first 😎