Small Scale Olive Oil Production 

Absolutely brilliant video!!!

A good press should be built multi-purpose so you can press olive oil or grape or apple juice or honey from broken comb, and the only real challenge is getting it properly clean between different products. Instead of having a press that is used once a year for one product and collects dust the other 51 weeks of the year.

Oh this is brilliant Jane! It looks like a long day or two, but the result 😲 WOW! I can see I'll have to try this at some point, Well done x

Give this job and other farm work to young African men .

Thank you very much... I love ur teaching 👍

Thanks Jane this is very helpful. You’re hoot 🤩

that is so interesting, I've been to a modern press and seen these old presses laying around in old barns, what a long process it was before... enjoy your midwinter celebrations and stay warm

noy bad for 8.8% extraction rate, the fact is that ripe olive produce more per kg than green or unripe ones, bc unripe ones have more water fraction at 75% but the black or overripe have less than 50% so they yield more per kg. and if you only select the rip and over ripe you can reach 20% yield mb the professional machines says they get to 15% with mixed half green half black. i think the reason why traditionnaly htye pick half green aand half black is bc green have more of the aromatic phenols and give that hot taste of fresh olive while overripe will taste like processed oil and thus people will doubt it's home made

I just tried to make 10lbs at home and then watched your video. Your cracked me up. 🤣😂 can’t wait to see your next video

Hi a friend suggested to watch, this was great to see, fascinating, but hard work and I have a few trees and need to try by hand. Will look thru your other videos

I like watching the oil drip, and I also like watching a cricket match haha

Well done Jane, it got to be worth the effort for the end product and I definitely would go for the hydraulic version, it got to be worth the investment. Again well done and have a happy holiday of celebrations, look forward to your next video.

Thank you very much for your video, it really shows the volume which is so important for us viewers to understand. I too want to be able to press out own oil. Here in Australia it costs around $370 / ton to get your olives pressed, but there is no guarantee that you will only get your olives / oil in those smaller quantities. 100kg of oil from 1000kg of olives, it is still a lot of work to harvest, transport, etc... Interesting. Let us know if you have set up for this with a follow up video please!

Hello Jane, thank you so much for discribing this process of your oliveoil production. We also have Olives and the cooperativa for this year is closed. So I plan to produce our private Oil. Well I think about and if ii funktion I wll tell you again. Thanks

Thank you for video. How many trees produced that amount and if u have type or species of olive tree...? M gracias !

Thank you

You'd get a second press of oil if you mixed the dry mash with hot water ... not as good quality oil, but still useful for a lot of purposes where quality isn't as critical.

Fascinating video Jane - who knew olive oil had to “age” a month or so before one can use it? Have a wonderful holiday

I need that oil in my life.

Hi and thanks for your efforts.... I'm just curious about the potential uses of the "water" and any other biproducts?

Wow never realised how hard it is. Think I will keep going down the mill lol

Jane, do you take requests? Would you mind doing another video showing the end product? I'd be keen to see how it came out. Btw, a great video, as always. Enjoyed it all the way to the end. Happy Christmas and see you guys around. ;-)

Watch Adictos al las tierra and you find a better way to press. Seems like hard work.

Jayne, where did Jim get the "mincer" from? I've been looking for one of these for years!

Πολύ ωραία μπράβο θέλει πολύ δύναμη για να γίνει όλο αυτό. Μπορείτε να μου πείτε από που θα αγοράσω το μηχάνημα αυτό που σπάει τις ελιές καθώς και τα τσουβαλια που στραγγίζουν; Ευχαριστώ 🤗

I wonder where to get fresh olives? I am in Canada

Do you know the brand or model # of the milling machine you used? It would beat the food processor that I use now. Thanks

I really enjoyed your work... good luck you you all😊

I wonder why olive oil is expensive.

sorry to say, wrong style of matt and to much paste in those matts. Better to investigate how others do it and the equipment they use. Middle east communities would have been finished hours ago and eating some pita with the fresh squeezed oil by now!