Olive oil, which one?

There are only 2 real kinds: hand picked and the horrific one.

The way most companies harvest olives is shocking. Of course, hand picking cost more.
 
andya700 said:
I have just been watching this video, comparing the different olive oils and rating them. I have to admit that we generally use Lidl, but have tried Fillipo Berio in the past, as well as some Iranian ones, which my wife has brought back with her. So, here we go.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKS_3fKljo
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Well I suppose the question is, how do you know what is said in the video is actually correct?
 
We buy ours from a producer in Crete (and sometimes get given a litre or so by a friend who "has a few trees".)
 
Stopped buying it, too darned expensive. Stick to rapeseed oil now.
 
andya700 said:
I have just been watching this video, comparing the different olive oils and rating them. I have to admit that we generally use Lidl, but have tried Fillipo Berio in the past, as well as some Iranian ones, which my wife has brought back with her. So, here we go.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKS_3fKljo
Click to expand...
You have to wonder on whose side these watchdogs are on. Maybe we don't have to wonder..we know.

Amazing. The two best were from Aldi and Lidl. We now do a lot of shopping at Lidl so I'll tell my wife about this. I think we have a Filipo Berio in the cupboard.
 
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From my personal experience the best olive oil was from a friend of a friend in Portugal who gave me a bottle that was freshly pressed from their farm. Nothing I have ever bought in a supermarket comes close. It’s a well known secret that there isn’t enough olive trees to even remotely come close to produce the amount of extra virgin olive oil that’s being sold which can only mean one thing.
 
We used to live in south Spain and had 25-30 olive trees and a similar amount of almonds. Harvesting the crops was amazingly hard work.
We'd take our sacks full of olives to the local 'factory' in the village and get back at most a couple of litres of oil which was delicious - many locals would drink a small glass of it every morning and at school the kids were all given a glass twice a week (my youngest still hates it)
The almond crop was even harder work and 'de-husking' the nuts then taking off the shells would be a couple of weeks work but all worth it when they were taken to the co-operative a few miles away - we'd come back with so much cash we could almost afford a meal out provided we only had one course.

This is/was our local oil factory -

Almazara extra virgin olive oil from Lubrin

Located in the village of Lubrín (Almería), in the Sierra de los Filabres, on the same side of the Tabernas desert, the "García Ramos" family continues to renew itself with the aim of improvement and quality. Making extra virgin olive oil different and unique. Thanks to constant work, Almazara...
www.andalucia-oro.com www.andalucia-oro.com
 
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I don't really care about its brand or type, they are all equally good at making me sick!
 
The first article in Graham's post is dated February 2016 and the second one last year and nothing has changed despite law enforcement agencies, such as Europol and the national police in Italy and Spain, conducting co-ordinated operations .e.g. "Operation OPSON", that have resulted in numerous arrests, the dismantling of criminal networks, and the seizure of millions of litres of fraudulent oil.

May 2022.
www.europol.europa.eu

Operation OPSON – Operation OPSON is a Europol INTERPOL joint operation targeting fake and substandard food and beverages. | Europol

<p>Operation OPSON is a Europol INTERPOL joint operation targeting fake and substandard food and beverages.</p>
www.europol.europa.eu www.europol.europa.eu
 
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