How often do you use oil such as edible, olive, vegetable oil, and palm oil in your cooking? Many dishes that use oil such as fried, steak, and even soup dishes will still need oil to fry the spices before performing the whole cooking process. In other words, oil is a very essential part of our lives. However, commercial oil is designed to last long without spoiling easily. How do manufacturers do that? They have added artificial preservatives to make it last for years. The question is, are artificial preservatives safe?
It has long been believed that artificial preservatives are one of the main causes of cancer, heart problems, and other complex diseases. This is the sad reality of our time because even though we strive to be healthy, almost all the food we eat every day has preservatives. This is especially present in processed foods such as noodles, hotdogs, canned goods, and cooking oils as well, to name a few.
I compare the modern era and the era of our ancestors when processed foods were not used. Our ancestors lived longer than modern humans. They don't have complicated diseases like Cancer and others. In the time of our ancestors, there were natural preservatives that existed that they used to preserve food for a long time. One of them is salt as a natural preservative. If they have fresh fish and they want it to last a long time, they clean it and apply salt to it. Salted fish will not spoil for several weeks or months.
In terms of cooking, I remember my grandmother frying fish using her homemade pure coconut oil. I noticed that the fried fish did not spoil for several days. Because of that, my wife and I considered making pure coconut oil for us to use in cooking our dishes. This idea comes to my mind because we have six coconut trees with lots of fruit. Matured coconut fruits may be wasted if not used wisely. So, I took 15 mature coconut fruits of assorted sizes so that we could extract pure coconut oil. There are two ways to extract pure coconut oil, the cold process and the heated process. We use the heated process.
This is the procedure we apply:
1)Remove all of the husks of the coconut fruit.
2)Slice the coconut shell in two and grate the coconut meat using a manual grater or motorized grater if there is an available machine. In our case, we use a manual grater.
3)Extract the coconut milk using a fruit juice squeezer or a juice extractor device. In our case, we only use our bare hands.
4)Use a clean pan and apply heat with it. In our case, we use the most traditional way of using firewood.
5)Pour the extracted coconut milk into the pan.
6)Continuously apply heat and make sure that there's no residue sticking in the frying pan.
7)The residue will gradually solidify into granules and separate the oil.
8)Observe the changes in the colors of the oil and the residue.
9)When the color of the oil becomes yellowish and the residue becomes brown it means that the separation process is completed.
10)Using a fine strainer, remove the residues from the oil.
11)Let the oil cool. Then transfer the cooled coconut oil to a clean bottle or any container. Use a strainer to strain the excess residues and retain the pure coconut oil.
This is our process of making homemade pure coconut oil. From the 15 coconut fruits we used, we got 500 ml of pure coconut oil. The process took maybe 5 hours. If we buy edible oil at the store, 500 ml will probably cost us 40-50 pesos. It seems that our hard work is not worth compared to the resulting product. Although lower-priced edible oil is readily available, knowing that our processed oil can make our body healthy is far way better than buying cheap oil with bad side effects.
Another benefit of making homemade pure coconut oil is the residue that is also delicious and nutritious. Our son loves it very much.
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Omg, thanks for sharing this @edver143 ! I will try this one sooner ☺️
You're welcome ma'am @douceink. This is a good alternative for the rising cost of cooking oil.
Wow, Thanks for sharing this home to make an oil.Edible oil is so expensive nowadays. I hope this can be used in cooking too.
Thank you ma'am. Actually we are using this homemade pure coconut oil for cooking and we are surprised of the good results. Our dishes become tastier and have an adorable aroma when compared to the commercial edible oil.
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This is what we call in Visaya as 'Lana sa lube' or coconut oil. Yes, it can be used to cook different dishes. And also the solid brown particles or residue is called 'lunok' which tastes sweet. Maybe it can be used as sandwich.
Reminds me of a simple yet happy life in the province several years ago. Thanks @edver143 for sharing.
Thank you sir @natsve54 for your appreciation. That's right. Using this homemade oil have promising results that the commercial edible oil can't give.
Wow! A healthier option to create cooking oil. It is very practical and useful these days especially the price of oil has gone up. Thank you for showing the steps @edver143 useful indeed☺︎
You are always welcome ma'am @heyitsjian. The process of extracting pure oil from coconut needs a hard work. But the benefits that it can give to our health and economy is great.
I learned something new today thanks for your blog💙
You're welcome ma'am @jayceethedreamer. You can also try this at home.
Thanks for this very helpful tips.
You're welcome ma'am @mooontivated. Although the process is antiquated but the benefits discovered recently have advanced effects.
Wow😲 thankyou for sharing this,it is a very big help for us specially to me it will add to my knowledge.I will surely try this one.Have a great day💗