How to Make Olive Oil Without Specialized Equipment

Full instructions for how to make olive oil without specialized equipment:

Naturally extracted from olives, olive oil is one of the healthiest oils you can use.

This year, when I was curing some green olives, a large percentage of them were infested with larvae from the olive fruit fly. Rather than toss them all, I decided to try making some olive oil from them!

I didn't expect to get a lot of oil but was actually pleasantly surprised.

While making olive oil at home isn't for everybody (it's somewhat labor-intensive), it's not as difficult as you might imagine.

I wouldn't recommend trying to make all of your own olive oil without buying specialized equipment. For occasionally making olive oil from small amounts of olives that would otherwise go to waste, though, this is a worthwhile project. It's also fun to see how to obtain oil from something like olives.

[TrInc-shkn]

Makes me appreciate why it's so expensive, much respect!

[stanlevox]

Actually recently did this myself and was totally and 100% worth it. I did remove the pits ahead of time for another project that was just a bit of time and relaxing to do. Then after after extra ting via a press and with my hands the with the leftover mash I did have some pure filtered water slightly wam that I blended with under a vaccume (blendtec) blender to not oxidize too much and let the top float and siphoned off. It turned out really really good with the olives out of the garden. When working with a vaccume blender it really helps. And even when putting into storage I use one of those reverse wine pumps to remove all the air. Taste is phenomenal, absolutely stunning. Great experiment and model, thanks for sharing.

[CanadianLoveKnot]

Makes sense now why no one makes it at home.

[Camille_Boomer]

What a fun experiment! I'm the same, I just want to try making everything I use for cookin from scratch at least once in my life. Often I find the process of making these everyday ingredients more fun than actually cooking itself. It's like a little sciency/artisan project each time. Thank you for sharing your journey :)

[mjremy]

Great video, thanks! Use a gravy separator instead of a siphon. Small cup with a nozzle at base to drain juice while oil floats on top.

[Herbalifacialspa]

Finding out most of the olive oil in stores is fake so I'm thinking of trying to make my own. Much like everything else. It's all poison, and I'm trying to get my family healthy.

[sunnygal]

What a labor of love! Fantastic video!

[corpsiecorpsie_the_original]

Have you ever tried using distilled water to "water wash" the oil to reduce the acidity and also allow for more gravity filtering (separation of solids from the oil)?

[ighehwh]

I did it but as soon as i swallowed a bit of the oil my throat closed as if i had an alergic reaction

[skepticalgenious]

Wow it seems like tedious work but it slowly pays off. Also the juice's not kept for oil should be super rich in beneficial stuffs. 😂

[codymuzzana]

So just a quick question, could you take the pits out first before blending?

[reality-winner]

How many pounds of olives yielded how many ozs of oil? Thanks for the video BTW

[maninwater]

With a filter flask, air pump, and separatory funnel, you could make this way easier,

[bewimotos]

How long does it last? Before the oil goes bad?

[Itsjasy]

Can we make any oil in this method like grape seed oil.. should we put the grapes in the mixer grinder or only the seeds??

[arra]

Mix the paste slowly by hand for 20 minutes before extracting the oil.

[vermillion]

Basically don’t bother trying hahaha so much effort for a tiny bit of oil

[SOz-ufyq]

With this pandemic happening globally prices are going up > let's plant the tree first before we make the olive oil. lol.

[ogtorcan]

What about the traditional olive oil ?

[MrOner]

now do video of how to make olive oil with specialised equipment. cause im not siphoning olive water every now and then. 😅