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You've plucked an olive from a tree and eaten it? Try it sometime and you'll see... The olives eaten in Italian and Greek cuisines are all processed using one
by dmm 7y ago
You've plucked an olive from a tree and eaten it? Try it sometime and you'll see...
The olives eaten in Italian and Greek cuisines are all processed using one of the methods described in the article to remove the extremely bitter compound oleuropein.
- coldtea 7y ago>You've plucked an olive from a tree and eaten it? Try it sometime and you'll see... More often than you'll think. But we usually cut them open, and treat them (is this called "curing"?) in water, salt, and oil. But the article starts with "Thank goodness we figured out how to press olives into oil, because eating them raw is not a pleasant option" which is simply not true, except if raw here is meant like "exactly as they are on the tree" (as opposed to the oil or paste form that it seems to imply).
- chrisseaton 7y agoIf you’ve treated it by curing it in salt then it’s no longer raw, is it?
- ska 7y ago"exactly as they are on the tree" Wasn't that was the point of the article? You pretty much have to do something to them to make them palatable.
- coldtea 7y agoI dunno, was it? It starts with "Thank goodness we figured out how to press olives into oil, because eating them raw is not a pleasant option." -- which implies pressing olives into oil is the only option, and goes downhill from there.
- matchbok 7y agoRaw: being in or nearly in the natural state : not processed or purified. So, cutting and treating them with water, salt, and oil is not raw....