The story

The paste goes into the mixing machine, called a malaxer. The name is long, but the drawing shows a slow movement. The woman in charge points to the paddles. They mix the paste under the conditions chosen by the workers. ‘This helps small drops of oil meet and join together,’ she explains. ‘Larger drops are easier to separate.’ Leo brings two drawn circles closer with his finger. Ada draws a larger one in a second picture. Neri reminds them that it is a diagram, not a test on the table. Sami says ‘malaxation’.

Then he describes the movement in simple words. Rumo waits. At this stage, making things go faster is not the visitors’ job.