Sous Chef - 750 ml squeeze bottle
Multi-award-winning organic olive oil - harvested by hand
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Sous Chef – Koroneiki Mild
Mild Extra Virgin Olive Oil · 750 ml Squeeze Bottle · Harvest 11/2024
Cook with confidence.
Sous Chef is our mild organic olive oil for everything that gets hot: frying, braising, roasting, pasta, vegetables, everyday cooking. 100% Koroneiki, but deliberately mild – so your ingredients take center stage.
➤ Organic Mild Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Greece
➤ 100% Koroneiki – pure variety & gently processed
➤ Perfect for cooking & frying thanks to its mild flavor
➤ Cold extracted below 27 °C
➤ Acidity < 0.5%
➤ Organically certified cultivation & hand-harvesting
➤ Made in Andania / Peloponnese
➤ Now available in the large 750 ml squeeze bottle
Sous Chef – just like our Liquid Gold – comes from our partner Ilias in Andania. For over 30 years, he has practiced organic farming in harmony with flora and fauna. His olives are harvested by hand, processed immediately, and bottled in small batches.
Why Squeeze?
Because cooking becomes intuitive: fewer drips, more control, faster work.
An olive oil for everyday use – but with the quality you would otherwise only find in premium oils.
We'll tell you where it comes from.
– and we stand by it with our name. 100% own harvest, 100% own mill, 100% unadulterated taste. For us, authentic means: complete transparency, pure ingredients, honest craftsmanship. This is what olive oil tastes like when no one interferes.
Good is not a trend,
but a promise. High polyphenols, low acidity, fresh harvest – you can taste it in every drop. For us, good means: quality you can smell, taste, and feel. For dishes that taste of the future – modern, Mediterranean, conscious.
For us, fairness begins there,
Where responsibility begins. We pay sustainably, work regeneratively, and think in terms of community, not margins. Short supply chains, fair conditions, long-term partnerships – so that good food benefits everyone involved.
- Precise dosing – fine stream without droplet loss.
- Clean & fast – For daily cooking and table serving.
- Light-protected & food-safe – Preserves the quality of your Liquid Gold.
Fine jet, clean application, elegant handling.
We offer large refill canisters for this purpose.
Refill instead of buying new
Our squeeze bottles are designed to last a long time. Instead of buying a new bottle every time, you simply refill it – quickly, cleanly and sustainably.
We offer large refill canisters so you can refill your squeeze bottle again and again. Less packaging, less resource consumption, less waste. More quality, more responsibility, more oil.
frequently asked Questions
What makes OEL's single-varietal olive oils so special?
OEL stands for 100% pure Greek virgin organic extra virgin olive oil.
Our oils are single-varietal: We exclusively process the Koroneiki variety.
The harvest is done by hand.
We actively participate in the harvest and production every year, because we
They want to have and control the entire production chain themselves.
Where do Koroneiki olives for OEL olive oils come from?
The Koroneiki olives for oil grow near Andania, a small town.
Village near Kalamata. Our partner's state-of-the-art olive oil mill is also located here.
Iliad.
The region around Kalamata is considered the most important olive growing area.
Greece. Olives have been cultivated here for millennia.
Besides the Kalamon (or Kalamata) eating olive, the Kalamon olive is also used for oil production.
small green variety Koroneiki cultivated.
For good reason: the stony, hilly landscape, the hot summers
and mild winters demand a lot of resilience from the trees and the farmers and
Calmness is key. These are ideal conditions for the highly aromatic,
slightly bitter Koroneiki olives.
What does "Extra Virgin Olive Oil" actually mean?
There are strict legal regulations governing the labeling of olive oils.
Extra virgin olive oil (also called extra vergine / extra virgin ) refers to the highest quality grade.
What does that mean in concrete terms?
1. A temperature below 27°C is mandatory throughout the entire production process . This is important to protect the beneficial components. Only under this condition may olive oil be labelled as cold-pressed or cold-extracted and extra virgin .
2. The oil has no organoleptic (i.e., perceptible to the senses) defects.
The taste is fruity.
3. The olive oil has an acidity level below 0.8% .
By the way:
Our olive oils typically have an acidity level of 0.35% to 0.5% - depending on the harvest year and time of harvest.
What exactly do you mean by "single variety"?
Single variety means that only olives of one variety are used for oil production - in our case the Koroneiki variety.
There are more than a thousand olive varieties worldwide. And most olive oils on the market are blends, meaning mixtures of oils from different olive varieties, often unfortunately also of different quality grades.
What does “Bird Safe” mean?
Our olives come exclusively from traditionally farmed areas
Groves in the Kalamata region that are harvested by hand during the day.
No bird or any other creature larger than a fingernail will be harmed here. We strictly reject industrial cultivation methods with fully automatic night-time harvesting, which can kill sleeping birds.
What is the difference between "cold-pressed" and "cold-extracted"?
There are two methods to extract oil from olive mash, i.e., solids.
To separate liquids and oils from water: by pressing or by
Extraction by centrifuge. This is where it is decided whether an olive oil is of the highest quality.
It is produced by cold pressing or cold extraction .
The press presses the mash between mats and the centrifuge extracts it.
The oil is extracted from the mash at several thousand revolutions per minute.
Centrifugation has been proven to be the gentlest method for processing olives after harvesting.
to process.
We use cold extraction via a decanter centrifuge. Then...
Our oil is immediately filled into large stainless steel tanks with UV and temperature insulation.
from which we fill our bottles and canisters as needed.
Canister or bottle - which is better?
Advantages of the canister:
- Airtight and opaque - two very important criteria for preserving the valuable ingredients
- Tinplate is very easy to recycle. Because it is magnetic, it can be easily fished out in sorting facilities and has one of the highest recycling rates of all packaging (91.1% in 2019, compared to 83.4% for glass).
The canister has a very low weight and, thanks to its rectangular shape, can be packed efficiently. This saves fuel on the long journey from Kalamata to Berlin.
Advantages of the glass bottle:
- She looks great!
- It is easy to open and close.
- It has a dosing spout.
Last but not least: It can be refilled and reused.
Comparison of our olive oils and supermarket olive oil
What makes OEL so special?
What distinguishes our olive oils from olive oil from the supermarket?
Liquid gold
Sous Chef
Supermarket olive oil
Yes
Yes
Yes No
Koroneiki
Koroneiki
Not known, mostly a blend
Native Extra
Native Extra
From extra virgin to sophisticated
Aromatic - for refining
Mild - for cooking and frying
Unknown
From the Greek village of Andania
From the Greek village of Andania
Unknown
Harvested by hand
Harvested by hand
Unknown