Olive oil - Press olive oil from fresh olives: make cold pressed olive oil at home.

Use the Piteba oil press to grind the olives including the kernel into a homogeneous pulp. Heat and stir this pulp for about one hour. Put a cloth in the fruit press ( olive pulp press ) and fill it with the warm pulp. Slowly tighten the press to produce the oil. 

Make olive oil at home step 1

1. The D2 cap with the flat ring transforms the Piteba oil press into a grinder for fresh olives (including the pit!) and turns all olives into an excellent olive paste.

Make olive oil at home step 2

2. Add the moisture that left the press through the oil slit to the pressed paste.

Make olive oil at home step 3

3. The olive paste is kept warm at 27-30 ° C ( malaxation ) for one hour while slowly stirring it. Part of the oil will float on the paste already.

Make olive oil at home step 4

4. Put a fine-woven cloth in the press cage of the fruit press and fill it with the warm olive paste.

Make olive oil at home step 5

5. Slowly lower the press plate and oil and water will flow out of the press.

Make olive oil at home step 6

6. The press cake is fairly dry.

Make olive oil at home step 7

7. Leave the pressed oil + water to settle until the oil is floating on top of the water. Separate the oil from the water (decant). If there is any contamination in the oil, this will settle. What remains is a clear olive oil.

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