Jordan | Types of olive oil in Al-Koura District

Arab Weather - In the last century, there were many types of oil extraction from olive trees, and the Koura District "Jordan" was the most famous area in northern Jordan in producing many types of olive oil - "the blessed tree" which was a distinctive and unique title for the Koura District -

1. "Baddad" or "Baddadieh" oil: The olives are roasted on a "saj" over a wood fire, then crushed manually and then squeezed manually by filling it in a cloth bag and pressing it with a weight, usually a heavy stone, to extract "Baddadieh oil".
2. "Al-Maddad" or "Al-Maddadiyah" oil: In this method, olives are boiled in boiling water in a copper pot (a pot), then crushed manually and then squeezed manually by filling it in a cloth bag and pressing it with a heavy stone to extract "Al-Maddadiyah oil."
3. "Taffah" oil: The olives are crushed on a hand stone, then the paste is squeezed manually and filtered by placing the juice in a "pot" until the oil floats on top of the water because its density is higher, and then the oil is separated from the water.
4. Boiled oil: The main reason for using the boiled oil production method in the past was that there was no “separator” that used “centrifugal” force to extract olive oil, as all olive oil production was done manually.

Production method: The olives are boiled by placing the fruits with water in iron barrels, and a fire is lit underneath them until they boil. Then the fruits are extracted from the hot water and spread on the roofs of residential houses under direct sunlight for 14 days and are turned daily so that the water evaporates from the olives and the fruits become dry and free of water. Then they are threshed on the "stone bed", and then the ajiba is transferred to extract the boiled olive oil through a gradual sorting system, which is the "manual model" before the fifties of the last century" or the "semi-automatic" model after 1970 AD. Note that only old olives, or what is known locally as "Roumi", are suitable for boiling.

The presses that produce boiled oil of both types, “boiled or dried,” are still operating today in the Koura District. The town of “Tabneh” occupies the scene in boiling olives, followed by “Deir Abi Saeed - Marhaba” and “Kafr Awan.”

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