November 21, 2024

VIDEO: What Happens When You Cure Olives 4 YEARS in Brine?


In this video, I show what happens when you cure or preserve homegrown olives in brine for fours years! I give a taste test on our fermented olives and also describe the process.

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23 thoughts on “VIDEO: What Happens When You Cure Olives 4 YEARS in Brine?

  1. Hi Mark, Here in Mississippi, USA, we don't get flowering Lilac bushes. I'm told that if I were to ice up the feet of the bushes every day for about three weeks the plants would be responsive to their winter imposter and flower subsequently.
    I wonder if the winter imposter technique would enliven your olives! Julia

  2. i had issue on flowering olives aswell… only finding out after
    I should not prune them every year. try to let grow and you should be able to see them flowering again as they dont use the energy on reforming branches and healing from the cuts

  3. Thanks for this. I have a couple of large jars of brined olives sitting in my pantry and wondered whether they would still be ok. I would say they have been there for two years. I never cut mine so hopefully they are not as soggy and still edible. Fingers crossed.

  4. My naunna stores olives for years in a bucket we never have had problems.
    Her best ones were 5 years old anchovie stuffed olive oil preserved. They were Un-freaking-believable

  5. A nice way to do olives is pitted and stuffed with cheese then wrapped in prosciutto. I also like to grind them to paste and put that onto sandwiches

  6. The cultivar of olives makes a huge difference. Feral olive trees that grow from bird droppings produce small inferior tasting olives, but good cultivars grafted onto the root stock will produce nice tasting olives.

  7. after 4 years experimenting:not a succes,I would say….?? there is many documentation about fermenting olives already…nevertheless it is nice to experience it yourself.

  8. People slice the olives in order to ferment quicker. Should not do if you planned to leave them 4 years. How much salt did you put in the brine? For 4 years minimum 14%. Should not open up and look during the 4 years. You introduce new airborne bacteria ech time. So, no wonder your olives went bad and mushy. Do not eat them.

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