[ARTIKEL] 25 Oct 2017
Coconut fruit is native to areas that have a tropical climate such as some areas along the equator. In this area there are a lot of coconut plants that grow and are cultivated by most of the people in the area.
In Indonesia itself, coconut plants can be found easily in all provinces from high mountain areas to coastal areas. Coconut plants are very useful for people's daily lives. Because not only the fruit has good benefits, but all parts of the coconut plant have various benefits.
One of them can be used as cooking oil or often also called coconut oil, it has become one of the daily necessities. Besides, you can easily buy packaged coconut oil. You can also make pure and healthy coconut oil yourself.
Some Easy Tips for Making Pure and Healthy Coconut Oil As Follows:
- Preparing the Ingredients First of all, prepare one to three coconuts that are quite old that have a lot of oil yield. Choose a quality coconut so that it can produce quality results.
- Peeling Then the coconut is separated from the husk, turned and the water removed, peeled the coconut skin until it runs out, separate the coconut flesh from the shell by prying it. Then wash the coconut until clean.
- Grate If the coconut has been peeled then the coconut is grated by hand or using a coconut grater machine. There are things that need to be considered in the coconut grating process, such as as much as possible try to avoid metal materials such as berries, or copper.
- Squeezing or Extraction Perform the extraction or squeezing method to get a good oil content. After squeezing, use water which is added as much as 150 to 250 percent of the weight of the extracted coconut meat.
- Separate the Satanic Coconut Cream (Kanil) and then it is deposited for a few moments and heated until warm so that the coconut cream can separate from the cream, then separate the top and put it in a separate container.
- Heating Coconut Cream The coconut milk (kanil) cream is then heated in an open container for 3 to 4 hours. Separate Blondo Yellow oil can be separated from blondo (protein) using a filter cloth and squeezed manually. Then the oil obtained is reheated at a temperature of 100 0 C to 105 0 C so that the water that is still in the oil can evaporate.