Hi could anyone out there tell me approx how many kilos of olives to get 5litres of oil many thanks
Hi friends of ours took their olives to the place just before Santa Maria de Nieve 31 kilos of olives gave them 7 litres of oil and cost them 4 euros to process and bottle. Hope this helps K
Quote from: cag on November 23, 2017, 18:50:00 PM
Hi could anyone out there tell me approx how many kilos of olives to get 5litres of oil many thanks
ball park 7.6kg olives to 1 litre we have just done 500kg got around 68 litres at the Arboleas press
It all depends upon the oil content of your olives at the time (at the Huércal-Overa press anyway). The take a sample of the olives and analyse them. Over the years my olives have varied between 15% and 19% oil. This year´s were 15.67%.
at 15% oil content 27Kg of olives should give 5 litres of oil as follows:-
27Kg olives x 15% = 4.05kg of oil
4.05 kg of oil x 1.2345 (approx) = 4.999 litres of oil
Many thankspeeps so at least it who worth picking them
Yes its a pain to do loads of trees,but its keeping tradition alive plus its really nice on toast .