El Reydelacomida is a tiktoker with more than 260,000 followers who tried to produce olive oil at home. He had never done it before, as he confessed in the video that he posted on his account, but he felt that he had to do it.
He filled two large plastic buckets with olives. After separating the leaves from the olives, he set out to start the process with household tools and the help of some friends. “I know I don’t have the right tools, but as they say in English, a good worker never blames his tools,” he said.
The first thing he did was crush the olives after washing them. A couple of minutes later the result was an olive oil that they put on a clean cloth to drain the liquid from the paste.
In order to better extract the liquid from the paste, and to be able to separate the pomace from the oil afterwards, he used a vice to be able to apply greater pressure, and separated the tool from the cloth with the olive paste with some pieces of wood.
Once drained, a very dry olive paste remained on the cloth. The Food King assured that he did not know what to do with that part of the product. “I don’t know if I have to throw it away.” As for the liquid, once strained, a large amount of pomace remained on the bottom and a thin layer of olive oil on top.
After showing the volume of squeezed olives, the tiktoker showed the minimum amount of oil obtained after more than 6 or 7 hours of work. “I don’t know if this rents a lot,” she confessed. After letting the liquid rest for 2 to 3 nights, the amount of olive oil obtained was just over a liter, but the kilos of olives he used for the project are unknown.
After pointing out that he, personally, would not do it again because the work and the wait have not compensated him, it was time for the tasting. “The taste was very good, better than most oils. It had a very interesting itch in the throat, similar to mustard,” he assessed.
