How to Make Coconut Oil

The process of making coconut oil starts from the separation of pulp and rind. Fruit pulp obtained by breaking up meat with peeling fruit or coconut shell. In the process of this separation will be obtained coconut water which can then be utilized as various products eg coconut juice or coconut sauce.

Having obtained the coconut meat that has been separated from his skin, further size reduction by means pemarutan or milling. Pemarutan purpose of this is to damage cells coconut meat to be easily removed oil.

Grated coconut meat is then processed milk made with the process of extortion. Extortion carried out several times until the content of coconut milk runs out. During extortion, grated flesh of the fruit is added to the water. Extortion extortion had stopped when the results do not get the juice is white or clear results tend to be colored juice.
Coconut milk obtained from extortion subsequently obtained milk is heated to separate the thick coconut milk / cream with milk powder. Section that contains a lot of oil is referred to as a cream, and the part that contains little oil is known to skim. Lighter than skim the cream, because the cream is at the top, and skim the bottom. In the heating process is maintained so that the heated cream milk is not broken to facilitate the separation process. Coconut concentrated heating is then carried out so that the water that is still contained in the evaporated milk to obtain oil and sediment called blondho.

Furthermore, comprising heating oil and waste is filtered to separate oil and sediment. This sediment is usually still contain enough oil. For the pressing is done in order to obtain sediment contains little oil. Oil obtained from the traditional way it normally would generate 60-70% of oil contained in coconut meat.

Oil is then stored in a container bottles or cans. During storage of oil is expected to be maintained to avoid contact with sunlight can cause damage due to oil oxidation process

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