On Tueday, we got to press the olives that we picked the week before! We used the old-fashioned olive press on the center grounds, and it was fun, messy, and hard work!
We had to push the giant stone around, so it would ground the olives down into mush, and this may look easy, but it was super heavy and hard!
Then, when it got full, we had to pick up the squished olives, and put them into woven baskets
It was messy, oily work!
So then we stacked the baskets filled with the squished olives and pressed them all down, and all the olive oil got squeezed out, like a sive.
The oil sits in these holes in the ground for a week, and then it seperates, and the top layer has to be scraped off, and then it is ready to go!! I have a whole new appreciation for olive oil now!
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