But not too early. Typically, we start looking a month before we pick. So far, Da Vero olives have been picked one day and pressed the next, but the hope for next year is to pick in the morning and press that same afternoon. The sooner, the better. Unlike other earthenware pots, the devil is never washed and no liquid is ever put in it.
Cooking is dry.
The devil saves lighting an oven, and it provides an oven for a few purposes where there is none. My diable charentais is about ten inches wide. The devil is excellent for new potatoes.