Broken Pitted Olives are olives that when being machine-pitted got damaged. They could be olives that the machine punch to remove the pit hit the wrong way, or olives that the pitting just didn’t work out cleanly with. The olives are just broken. They are still whole otherwise, with all the pieces attached to each…
Olive Sizes
Cracked Olives
Cracked Olives are olives that, before being cured, are pressed between boards or stones so that the flesh cracks open, but not so hard that oil would be extracted, and not so hard that the pits inside will crack. Cracking, like slashing olives (see Tailladées), speeds up the curing process because it lets the brine…
Mammouth Olives
Greek misspelling of the English word for “mammoth”, to designate large-sized olives. Many people think consequently that this is a separate type of olive.
Olive Sizes
World olive size grading is calculated by the number of olives per kilo. American size is graded by the number of olives per pound (the number of olives per kilo in the table further below is approximate for American sizes, as the United States Department of Agriculture hasn’t set official metric grading.) You may often…