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We attended the Olive Oil 101 class and learned all about olive oil and how it is produced.
These machines separate, clean and pressurize the olive to squeeze the oil out of them.
These are the vats that the olive oil is stored in.
There's strict global guidelines for olive oil in order to label it as Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Queen Creek Olive Mill only sells the Extra Virgin, the rest gets dumped on the parking lot to keep the dust down. If you go to a local store or big box and buy anything that isn't labeled Extra Virgin you are literally consuming olive oil waste.
Olives are normally harvested in October through December. Before olives are processed they taste really bitter, we took the instructor's word for it and didn't taste these!
Lunch was so good...a crispy chicken sandwich on ciabatta roll with parmesan fries. We should have shared. It was huge!
These are the olive trees.
They have lemon and apple trees as well.
This is the machine that is used to harvest the olives. It functions kind of like a corn picker except it just shakes the olives from the trees and leaves the tree standing.
The olive trees are planted at various densities to produce different types of olives.
Oh yes, we had to get some gelato to share even though we were so full!
This bush smells so good!!! I'm trying to figure out what it is. It smells like licorice!!!
Bought some maple vinegar and bacon olive oil. Also some good plain olive oil and a salt box made from olive wood to put the lemon salt in.
2 comments:
I love olive oil. I get morrocan for the high polyphenols. Do these oils have good flavor for dipping?
Oh yes, this is the good stuff! Who is this? Your name isn't showing up.
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