Interesting part about living in a rural area is that we get to produce stuff we normally buy in the supermarket. This time it was coconut oil. We have about 6 coconut trees in our garden producing more than 500 coconuts this season. We removed the kernals from about 40 coconuts. It is not easy to remove the kernals and I will leave it for another day.
The kernals were cut into pieces and dried in the sun for 4 days. The kernels filled a 12 litre bucket. It was crushed and pressed in a local mill. This mill had a single electric motor powering several machines and operated by one woman. Babu collected about 2.5 litres of coconut oil while Radhesh took all the pictures.
The best part of the extraction process is that it is free but we had to leave to coconut cake after the oil extraction which is used as feed for the cattle.
1 comment:
at which point do they add the spices to the oil?? or is that something that you do when you get home?
mmmk
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