How to Make Cold Pressed Coconut Oil
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Older coconuts produce more oil.three sorts of oil image by Tomo Jesenicnik from Fotolia.com
Choose two or three mature coconuts. It is important for the coconuts to be mature, because the older ones have more oil. A young coconut usually will not have enough oil in it to be worth pressing. - 2
When opening coconuts, use a bowl to catch the milk.bowl image by rlat from Fotolia.com
Open the coconuts. Hold a coconut in the palm of one hand. The center of the coconut should be right in your palm. The eyes and stem should be opposite each other. With the other hand, hit the coconut with the back of a meat cleaver a couple of times, and it will crack open. Do this over a bowl so that you can catch all the coconut water, also known as coconut milk. - 3). After the coconut is open and the coconut milk has been collected, remove the coconut meat (the white flesh inside). Take a small knife and cut out as much of the meat as you can, then grate the coconut meat with a grater.
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Press the coconut meat over a jar.amande in a jar image by AshDesign from Fotolia.com
Put the grated coconut meat into a clean white nylon mesh bag. Wearing kitchen gloves, press the coconut meat in the nylon bag, using your hands. Make sure you press it over a wide mouthed jar, to catch the coconut oil mixture. - 5
Press the bagged coconut meat again, using your hands.hands in hands against sky, friendship concept image by JoLin from Fotolia.com
Soak the pressed coconut meat in the jar of coconut milk. Press it again with your hands, over the jar, to extract as much milk as possible. - 6). Let the coconut milk in the jar settle in a cool protected place; this can be a cabinet or refrigerator. After at least 10 hours, check the coconut mixture. There should be two layers in the jar, with the solidified oil layer on top and the water layer on the bottom. Scoop out the oil without disturbing the water beneath.
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