American Reacts How Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Is Made In Greece | Regional Eats

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  • @raythomas4812
    @raythomas4812 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I never used to like Olives - then I married a Greek and now I love them !

  • @apmoy70
    @apmoy70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Oh in the Mediterranean, summers are HOT. They're dry though, thus bearable. The Koeppen climate classification describes N. California as Mediterranean, and from the images and photos I've seen of Californian flora, it's very similar to ours (haven't visited the US West Coast as of yet, only the East). PS1: An easy way to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit is by multiplying the Celsius temp by 2, and then add 30 for a pretty good estimated temp in degrees F, so 28°C IS 28*2=56+30=86°F (roughly). PS2: The word she says at the end for the Messenian slaves is how we pronounce it in Modern Greek, she meant helots (as are εἵλωτες known in English)

  • @user-xh9rz7rf8l
    @user-xh9rz7rf8l 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Olive is not something that is eaten alone, but it can be the best accompaniment to most foods (at least the ones we make in Greece). Anyway, try the following combination: 100 grams of feta cheese, 1 sliced ​​tomato and a little salt, two slices of hot bread, where you will spread a little olive oil, 10 giant Kalamata olives. This is the best way to appreciate the taste and nutritional value of olives. I do not know how olives are prepared in America, but I know very well how we prepare our own and I will say that it takes about 1 month for the olive to be ready to eat!
    (8-10 large olives = a portion of meat).

  • @sevenwatson5854
    @sevenwatson5854 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I didn't like olives when I was young but in my late 30s I developed a liking and now I love them.....your palate will change with age Connor!

    • @spanishpeaches2930
      @spanishpeaches2930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mine didn't.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Spanish - then you need to go Kalamata matey

    • @MrNixtt
      @MrNixtt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      To be honest, as someone growing up in a family with olive trees and producing our own olive oil and olives, the olives in the supermarket aren't good at all. But yes taste changes

    • @spanishpeaches2930
      @spanishpeaches2930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@annother3350 I have EV Kalmata olive oil in the kitchen. : ) I don't mind cooking with it or mixed with lemon as a dressing, just cannot stand eating them.

  • @user-lm6me2tz9t
    @user-lm6me2tz9t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I am Greek and I don't like most ways the olives are made either. But there are so many ways that you will probably find one you will like, at least in Greece (e.g. that first olive shown in the video is for oil only. Noone eats it. We eat the second one that is 3 times larger). No clue about the quality of the exported stuff :) *On the video:*
    They use machines now, but not so many years ago you had to do the harvest by hand, hand-rake or, believe it or not, by hitting the branches with long sticks made of a type of local bamboo . *On the acidity and being "extra virgin" olive oil* there are TWO simple trick:
    Trick 1: "When you hand pick the leaves out of the olives, while in the field, you must get rid of any olives that are bad/chewed by birds of bitten by insects" ... if you put good olives in, the result is always good as long as (trick 2) you do not leave the olives in the sack for too many days and they start to ferment in the sack.
    Simple eh?
    Edit:
    Unlike wine where tasting is a high-class make-believe, while tasting oil you can actually tell the difference and the quality, even just from the smell.

    • @williambranch4283
      @williambranch4283 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My trip to Greece in 1983 was unforgettable!

    • @kritikos889
      @kritikos889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Μια χαρα τις τρώμε κ τις πρώτες.

    • @user-lm6me2tz9t
      @user-lm6me2tz9t 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kritikos889 Αυτές στο βίντεο, τις πράσινες που είναι κουκούτσι και φλούδα? :)

  • @anglosaxon5874
    @anglosaxon5874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Extra-virgin olive oil is very good for you especially organic. Use it in your cooking and salads.

  • @BardOfAndromeda
    @BardOfAndromeda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mediterranean summers are blisteringly hot. Think about it - Greece, Italy and Spain are only a short hop north of the Sahara.

  • @Rousseau4469
    @Rousseau4469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s also a myth that winter is light. Of course in Messinia or lesvos (which sun comes at least out for 330 days per year) the winters are more gentle but other parts of Greece become extremely cold especially on the north due to moister. I met a lady born and raised in Kazakhstan and she told that despite the tons of snow seeing in her country she was really scared by the cold in the outskirts of Athens !!!!

  • @rasmusn.e.m1064
    @rasmusn.e.m1064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I know exactly the feeling you are describing. It's not the same as asmr. It's more like a response to trusting your instructor 100%. I sometimes get it from good music teachers when they show me what to do.

    • @zhaw4821
      @zhaw4821 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's called passion

  • @zhaw4821
    @zhaw4821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    THE FEELING IS CALLED..... PASSION

  • @douglasthompson296
    @douglasthompson296 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Connor is in love with the presenters 😍 pity Rhode Island isn't a Mediterranean climate quess he fries in summer and freezers in the winter. 😎

  • @celsus7979
    @celsus7979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I get that trance feeling watching ray mears make a bow or a fire or cook a meal straight from nature. Love it

  • @formatique_arschloch
    @formatique_arschloch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love olives in every form.

  • @albin2232
    @albin2232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You need a really juicy Kalamata olive and some warm, freshly baked bread, not those beastly pitted little black things that Americans call olives.

  • @gillianrimmer7733
    @gillianrimmer7733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Greek olive oil is definitely the best.

  • @farmerrikki825
    @farmerrikki825 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The exact formula to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit is " multiply by 9, divide by 5, add 32. "
    28c = 82.4f

  • @wonderlandian8465
    @wonderlandian8465 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I get what you mean about the trance feeling, it obviously has to do with the person teaching you and how "at ease" in a way they make you feel, like you trust them and just let them guide you through certain things. Also when you can tel the person loves what they are talking about/teaching you

    • @zhaw4821
      @zhaw4821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The feeling is called passion

  • @catbitmaster8216
    @catbitmaster8216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tingly feeling? Sounds like ASMR. If that is the case, you should try French Whisperer ASMR. He is an ASMR artist that also talks about various topics, sometimes educational, in his ASMR videos like mythology.

  • @Zippy66
    @Zippy66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I only started eating them in my 40s. Hated them before that

  • @tedsharpe3010
    @tedsharpe3010 ปีที่แล้ว

    That tingling can be ASMR. But you are connecting to them.

  • @miguelagramos
    @miguelagramos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    28ºC is.... (36ºC is body temperature) so a little less. At 0ºC water freeze.

  • @spanishpeaches2930
    @spanishpeaches2930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't stand olives myself , but my cat loves the black ones ! That said, i do have a teaspoon of EV olive oil most days because it is so good for you. 28deg C =82 deg F. The easiest conversion.

  • @StanWatt.
    @StanWatt. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love olives! I only ever buy extra virgin but never cook with it. I use virgin olive oil to cook with.

    • @ryanmarshall3640
      @ryanmarshall3640 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      serious question why what's the difference

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Liquid gold! That and grape wine, is the whole economy of the ancient Mediterranean. Making pretty pottery was the only other thing for export (that and Greek mercenaries). There is a huge olive orchard down and to the West of Delphi. Russian olive trees are pure hell, thorns! Philosopher Thales maybe invented capitalism, by predicting the weather and a bumper olive crop, and bought up all the oil presses! In tradition, the Garden of Gethsemane is an olive orchard, and Jesus and the disciples were staying in a cave there, that sheltered an olive press, and that is still there to go see.

  • @georgekoul
    @georgekoul ปีที่แล้ว +2

    McJibbin You will become a fan if you taste Kalamata olives!Believe me.

  • @ErisstheGoddessofmanhwas
    @ErisstheGoddessofmanhwas ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Treasure given by goddess Athena , says the mythology.

  • @kenUK762
    @kenUK762 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Connor, do yourself and your body a big favour by starting to use Extra Virgin Olive Oil to prepare and eat with appropriate food, particularly salads. You can also fry with the oil. One of the reasons people around the Mediterranean are generally healthier than the rest of us in the West is that they don't eat junk food.👍
    Incidentally, 28Centigrade is roughly 88Fahrenheit ( x2 + 32).

  • @wallywombat164
    @wallywombat164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just for your interest mate. Check out the age of some Olive trees. You may be surprised.

  • @jjcustard6378
    @jjcustard6378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Kalamata olives are the best

  • @russcattell955i
    @russcattell955i 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm sure many know that the food & drink suits it's native climate well. In this case olive oil and the Mediterranean zone.

  • @Abernis
    @Abernis ปีที่แล้ว

    Let me clear out a big misconception about olive oil (the biggest being that this is an island country..): olive oil is only recently been available to everyone in greece and by that I mean olive trees can only grow up to 800 mts above sea level and about half of the country is above that.. When I was a kid I knew nothing about oil (we used animal fat to cook and preserve) and only found out about it when we moved to the city which, of course, is neither here nor there as this is an amzing product !

  • @stirlingmoss4621
    @stirlingmoss4621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Connor. You likely have a sweet tooth which is inevitable in the USA as sugar seems to be added to almost everything. Loose it, and you will start to experience the true taste of food and given time, you will migrate to liking olives...as I did.

  • @efstathiosgeropanagiotou3025
    @efstathiosgeropanagiotou3025 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Greek olive oil is the best in the world.. This is the secret of the longevity of the Greeks.. Did you know that the olive tree lives athousand years, maybe even more.. it's not a coincidence..

  • @wallywombat164
    @wallywombat164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    G'day Miss Connor. What was the only part of Popeye that didn't get rusty?.

  • @Onezy05
    @Onezy05 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OLIVE OIL 🤤🤤🤤

  • @PerryCJamesUK
    @PerryCJamesUK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to hate them all, but now I don't hate the black olives.

  • @dimiaslan1870
    @dimiaslan1870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m assuming your next vacation is in Greece

  • @AndrewwarrenAndrew
    @AndrewwarrenAndrew 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Olives make me think of zombie eyeballs, probably taste the same too.

    • @Kwstas_Vagias
      @Kwstas_Vagias ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No they taste more like meat or mushrooms but with more flavor and they are mostly bitter if they are untreated.
      People of course treat them with spices so their taste changed accordingly, my favorites are quite salty and spicy.

  • @Rousseau4469
    @Rousseau4469 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Εxtra virgin olive oil is the sturdiest among all plant oils that can withstand extreme heat in pans. It starts to oxidise above 210 Degrees Celsius. All the other ones start in much lower temperatures. So despite that the Greeks cook with pans that food is much more healthy than food made with other types of plant oils. In Greece there are hundreds at least different types of olives and it’s bound for you to discover one of your liking. Personally I love the oil that is being produced to the island of Lesvos (or Mytiline if you like) which is simpler not with much fruitiness and boy I love the early season produced oil like the one seen coming out of the machines which is called Agourelaio (not matured oil). Which is tasting a bit sour especially in the throat.

  • @lumpyfishgravy
    @lumpyfishgravy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    28C == 82F
    In this case, simply reverse!

  • @alphakappa1378
    @alphakappa1378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:34 Summers are very hot my friend.

  • @2eleven48
    @2eleven48 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please don't judge me, but like Connor with olives, I've tried time and time to like olive oil, but the taste is simply not something I can abide.

  • @chaostade4087
    @chaostade4087 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    there are a lot of different kinds of olives. I dont like most of them, my favorite are Greek Kalamata olives. If you try greek kalamata olives and you stil dont like them you then can say you dont like olives.

  • @dimiaslan1870
    @dimiaslan1870 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We know what it means, you’re falling in love with a greek woman mate…

  • @annother3350
    @annother3350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are the olives crushed betwixt the thighs of virgins?!

    • @Hydrogen-Hyperoxide
      @Hydrogen-Hyperoxide 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes !!. Not only virgins...they never see a pe.is in their life, even in a photo You imagine how much difficult is to find that virgins.. in present days.

  • @celsus7979
    @celsus7979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Olives are the worst, olive oil is the best..
    I dont get it either

    • @MeldinX2
      @MeldinX2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True i also hate olives but love olive oil. It's so weird.

    • @user-lm6me2tz9t
      @user-lm6me2tz9t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's the process. E.g. there are olives in brine, olives in vinegar, olives that are first raked with a razor and then put in oil or vinegar, olives that are squashed (you literally have them in the sack and put a huge rock on them and leave the rock there for a while hahaha ) and so forth. I don't like most of them either, but there are so many kinds of olives and so many kinds of ways to "process" them that there is bound to be one type that you will find to your taste.

    • @kariba25
      @kariba25 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry to say it, but i think you never had real good olives.I put them in my Salat, Pizza, Tomato sauce for pasta, or just feta with bread and olives with oregano! The weird think is they taste 10x better when put in olive oil and vinegar

    • @MeldinX2
      @MeldinX2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kariba25 That is acually true. Olives in olive oil does taste better for some wierd reason.