Hey, longtime reader, first time poster.
I can’t find any info on the internet about how much oil a single olive would produce (my limited searching skills only locate entire tree yield)
Can anyone help?
Cheers!
According to this site a ton of olives will yield between 12-50 gallons of oil depending on varietal and other factors.
You can do the math from there, I guestimated 0.5 oz for the weight of an individual olive which means 0.024-0.10 fluid oz of oil per olive.
Here’s some fairly specific olive size data. sizes of olives
Adjust calculation to the size of the olive being discussed. If per zombywoof’s cite “a ton of olives will yield between 12-50 gallons of oil”. Just do the math. There is a tremendous span of varietal sizes from 32 - 221 olives per lb.
If you press it along with a lot more olives, it will produce more usable oil than if you press it by itself. The amount of oil per olive is the same, but if you press a single, lonely olive, the oil will pretty much end up greasing the press before it gets near a bottle…
Similarly, if you put a single grape in a press all you get is a little whine.
So how much baby oil do you get per baby?
You don’t get oil from babies you get earl from babies
Baby powder is a useful byproduct when making baby oil. What do they do with the olive powder?
What do they do with the pressings?
That’s actually a good question. I imagine they would make good compost or even animal feed.
I don’t think it’s very useful. I added some baby powder to a bowl of water and just got some pasty goo, not so much as a couple of fingers. Still, me and the wife’ll keep trying for another couple of weeks. I can’t imagine how everyone else manages.
I’m sorry… I saw this thread title and had to say:
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?
Ignore this post.
Moretraditionally it is used either on site as an energy source (cogeneration) or as a soil conditioner:
Really? :dubious:
All I ever got out of mine was copious amounts of rather foul and rank…
Well, if you’ve ever dealt with what comes out of babies, you get the picture. 
Try reconstituting it with baby oil instead of water. (I know, they should really make the instructions clearer.) You’ll have to experiment with ratios and amounts to suit your requirements, as I learned that one time I tried making grits.
On one of the PBS cooking shows I caught this weekend, the host visited an olive grove and asked about yield. IIRC, they said that the typical olive tree would yield around 1.5 liters of oil per year. If you can figure out how many olives are on the typical tree, you should be able to do the math.
Using the formula: (W + I) * C where W = the constant of wood, which is well known to be 61, as agreed in many scientific circles. I = the variable in this equation, and stands for the word “if” from the original problem. As there are three circumstances, with 0 equaling the chance that the woodchuck cannot chuck wood, 1 being the theory that the woodchuck can chuck wood but chooses not to, and 2 standing for the probability that the woodchuck can and will chuck wood, we clearly must choose 2 for use in this equation. C = the constant of Chuck Norris, whose presence in any problem involving the word chuck must there, is well known to equal 1.1 of any known being, therefore the final part of this calculation is 1.1. As is clear, this appears to give the answer of (61 + 2) * 1.1 = (63) * 1.1 = 69.3. However, Chuck Norris’ awesome roundhouse kick declares that all decimal points cannot be used in formulas such as this, and so it must be rounded to the final solution of 69 units of wood.
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