Krinos Pitted Kalamata Large Olives - 100% Greek Olives, 4.4 lb

Best tasting Kalamata Olives on Amazon. Tried the others and these are the best on price, flavor and quality. The others have too many spices/flavors added. After buying several dozen containers over the past several years, these are consistent in flavor, size and fresh.

I love, Kalamata, olives, pitted olives, and these are an excellent product, I use some in cooking with almost everything that I eat, they’re especially good on chicken Caesar salad, as well as hot dishes, either cooked into the hot dish, or as a garnish, they have perfect flavor And I love the fact that they come in large plastic jar so there’s plenty of room, and two good value for a good product and a large quantity. Kudos to both Amazon and the producer of the product.

Some have complained that they are salty. I am glad that I read reviews and learned to just rinse them off. Duh!! They are so delicious. I had no problem with opening the container and taking out the inner plastic. This is such a good deal. I love olives but they can be expensive. I can afford these and can eat all I want! Thank you Krinos. Your product is quality.

I'd say these are solid B quality olives, decent restaurant quality. Not quite as good as, say, Mezetta but good enough for salads, soups, stews. We eat and serve a ton of them so it's nice to be able to buy in restaurant quantity. These are highly salty (and I'm not someone who minds salt) but I'd advise reducing the salt level by scooping them into a jar and fill with the brine only about 3/4 of the way and the rest just add cold tap water. That will reduce the salt concentration maybe 20 percent?

These olives I found to be overly salty and uneven in their individual saltiness. They were medium, not large. Over all the texture was good, flavor was good but salty, but just not up to my expectations.

When you open the plastic tub there is some kind of plastic sifter that seems to be impossible to remove. The olives are trapped underneath and there seems to be no way to help them escape. I'm sure the olives are of decent quality but the frustration level has me considering dumping the whole thing and letting the wild pigs figure it out. EDIT: 20 minutes later I got the "sifter" out after spraying myself and my kitchen with brine. The olives are not edible due to the amount of salt in the brine. I ate four of them ten minutes ago and can still feel the salt overdose in my mouth.

After reading some reviews on this brand and others, I went with Krinos as I know the brand name with a distribution center in Long Island City, Queens, New York. That almost said enough, as a large American-Greek population is in Northwestern Queens, specifically Astoria. So what about the product? Excellent! And this is based in part on my earlier residence in Port Washington, New York (Nassau County), where Ayhan's Shish-Kebab and Marketplace was the "go to" thirty plus years ago and still is. Soft olives with a consistent texture, evenly flavored, and so far no pit remnants. This is a premium product, and the best part is if kept in the original container with brine and properly sealed, does not need refrigeration. Does it get any better than this?

These are delicious Kalamata Olives, and the price is hard to beat. Everything has gone up in price, but while these went up in price they didn't go up significantly as other Kalamata's have. These are the ones to get online. My wife and live in Virginia, I'm from Pennsylvania and when we go to PA we stop at a Middle Eastern market and get about 5-10 lbs. of the Kalamatas, when we run out before our next trip this is what we order. We are not disappointed.