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How Olive Oil is PressedCentrifuging The Paste is Centrifuged, and Out Comes the Oil In the past people spread the paste over straw mats, stacked the mats, and pressed the stack to extract the oil; while the process is quite photogenic, it also exposes the oil to the air, and this results in oxidation and loss of quality. So most modern presses use centrifuges, which are again drums -- vertical this time -- that separate the olive oil from the paste. Less photogenic, but oxidation is greatly reduced. - Hand-Picking the Olives
- A Parachute Catches The Olives
- Hand-Picked Olives
- Storing the Olives
- Into the Hopper
- Up the Conveyor
- And Through the Strainer
- Olive Paste Ready to be Pressed
- Centrifuging
- New Extravirgin Oil, Direct to the Consumer!
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