How olive oil is pruduced - Gargaliani Greece

This is how the Olives are converted to olive oil. These clips are from when i went down to my hometown of Gargaliani, in the Messinian region of Greece. First of course they have to collect the olives. Once they are brought to the "Elaiotrivio" or if I can say "Oil Mill" in English, they dump them in a hole, and then the first belt picks them up. The first machine separates any leafs in there from the olives and washes them. The second belt brings them up and crushes them.

Then the go to the big square barrels where on the back side pipes with hot water pass and thus warms those barrels. The olives stay there for 3 to 4 hours and are getting crushed and softened. By the way, the smell of this warm oil is amazing.

Then the big machines after this process separates the olive oil from the waste (that's why it's called a separator). Then it moves on and drops at the end to the barrel which is a scale so the producer can either take it from there, sell it to the factory, or have it stored at the factory and sell it or take it later on.

Mind you that the acidity that was produced was 0.4%. Everything under 0.8% is good quality. Our area is knows for producing the best olive oil in the world. Also just for your information, the good olive oil is NOT sweet when you taste it. The good olive oil should be a little bitter in taste.

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[bensonopoulo]

I've been to that factory the machines are amazing. I wish I could of seen it in action