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Here are the steps:

• Picking the olives (with yours truly).
• At the frantoio granite wheels grind them into a paste.
• The paste is slathered onto nylon mats which are piled one atop another to form a cylinder.
• The cylinder is placed under an hydraulic press at 400 atmospheres pressure (≈ 6,000 pounds per square inch).
• The resulting liquid is run through a centrifuge to separate the water from the oil.
• The oil is then poured into my stainless steel container which I pray to God does not leak on the way home.