from fruit to olive oil
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Do you know how to get the Oil that you use to cook? We have been in a mill and found out how. We are UmbriaLovers and we talk about Umbria (Italy)TRANSCRIPT
How do we get the Extra Virgin Olive Oil
from the fruit?
Slides and Pictures from UmbriaLoversThanks to Frantoio Ronci (Olive Mill) for the hospitality
The collection: First of all you need to pick up the olives at the right point of maturity (November) and bring them to the olive-mill within 24 hours from the collection, this to avoid the fruits being damaged and the olive oil
coming out with defects.
A short walk... This is where we put the olives
when arrived at the mill, they go through here and then here
The arrival of the olives in the mill:
The olives are separated from the leaves through an automatic suction pump
and then washed
Aaaahhh! Olives fall and they pass through this
machine to be separeted from the leaves. UUeee
The crushing Now the olives are ready to be
machined. During the phase of crushing the olive fruit is put into a machine that turns it into a mass composed of
shredded flesh and fragments of the pit.
Olives are inside this machine
and they are “cut”
...Heeeeeelp
The Kneading Then we have the process of kneading: the
dough is subjected to slow stirring to break the oil-water emulsions formed during the crushing, forming bigger and bigger oil drops.
Olives are stirred result is:
oil, water, dought
Ring around the rosies,A pocketful of posies...
The Extraction: Finally we proceed to the extraction itself.
The emulsion is going through a special centrifuge that separates the solids from the liquid pulp. This machine separates
the oil from the water present in the fruit that will not be thrown, but used as a
fertilizer.
Rock and RollLet’s Centrifuge!
Let’s get some Oil
The oil obtained is stored in special
metal containers in the bottom of
which impurities, naturally present
even after the process, deposite
(this phase is called the process of settling).
UmbriaLovers is a blog about Umbria (Italy). 2 locals that love the region and tell about experiences and activities in
the Green Heart of Italy
http://umbrialoversblog.blogspot.com
Many thanks to Frantoio Ronci for the hospitality, the explanations and the tasting
www.frantoioronci.it