Most people are concerned about how to make good palm oil especially when they are new into the industry of palm oil and the ones to be made is for cooking. It is not by all ways that good palm oil is made. This is the reason why the taste and texture of palm oil would vary from place to place according to how well prepared they are. This is what makes Nsukka palm oil stand out among all palm oil in Nigeria and that all over the world. Nsukka palm oil is prepared in the right rigorous and healthy way.
The methods of how good palm oil is prepared would be explored in this post. However, before we head into the methods and processes of making good palm oil, we think the first thing you should be able to do is to detect what or how a well-prepared palm oil looks? You have some questions you need to ask about palm oil? We have answered them beneath.
1. How can I know good palm oil?
The first way of getting to know good palm oil is whether it is neat and new. A good palm oil is not clogged or heavy and the color should not be different from deep orange. So the first step to knowing good oil is how it looks. If it is clogged or unnecessarily heavy or too bright orange or too red, then it is bad oil. So the first step in knowing a good oil is how it looks and appears.
ii. The second way is if you perceive the smell/scent of the oil. A good palm oil shouldn’t have a rotten smell or a smell far from the sweet smell of a regular clean palm oil. Some palm oil have really bad smell when you perceive them. So if you by any chance perceive the palm oil you want to buy and it smells bad; it’s advisable you leave the oil as it might pose health risk to you.
You should also have in mind that some people are so bad in their quest to make profit that they mix a lot of things in the production of palm oil. Part of the things they mix is chemical for coloring and solidifying house paints. So if you are allowed to touch the oil, please do, and if it is too red and sticks to your palm like a semi-glue or house paint, please don’t buy.
2. What are the uses of palm oil?
Palm oil is used for a lot of things. The prominent one is that palm oil is used in cooking most meals in Africa and some other parts of the word. Palm oil is also used in the production of things like soap, grease, detergent, vegetable oil and other products. Palm oil in the past was mainly used in factory settings to grease large machines in the factories. So palm oil has wide usage and can be utilized in any way.
3. How to remove palm oil stain from clothes?
Palm oil can easily be removed from clothes by soaking the clothes in a detergent-filled water and leaving it there. Then wash the affected part vigorously after 10 – 15 minutes. If the stain doesn’t remove, use kerosene–pour a spoonful of kerosene on the affected spot and use more detergent on the spot, wash there until it removes.
4. What nutrients does palm oil contain?
Palm oil contains Vitamin A and fats and oil. Good use of palm oil would make you add healthy weight and it would help in the freshness of your skin. The Vitamin A in it helps in improving your night visions.
5. Is palm oil a good business to do?
Palm oil business is a long term business that has little or no risks. It is a business you have to be in possession of a lot of money in order to make gain. It is profitable in the long run as income comes in little by little for a period of over 40 years. The good thing about palm oil business is that you won’t be worried about loss or low demand as palm oil would always sell and you can equally export it.
Now. Are you new into the business of palm oil? Do you intend to make palm oil that the taste and texture is the right fit for your meals? Then, I think you should consider making palm oil in these steps. These steps presented is certainly the best steps on how to make good palm oil.
Steps and Process of How to Make Good Palm Oil
1. Plant or Harvest from a good Specie of Palm Tree
If you want to go into the business newly, the best first plan is to harvest from a good specie of palm tree. In any way, if you intend to have a palm tree plantation, then endeavor to make research of the best specie to plant. There are species that grow fast, produce plenty good palm oil and is more productive. You can plant these. The taste and texture of palm oil is also determined by the specie of the tree.
2. Removing the nuts from the Palm Fruit Head
After harvest, the nuts can be removed from the palm fruit head either manually or by machine. In either way. It should be noted that you should ensure the palm nuts aren’t broken or affected by the means of the removal. You should also note that you do not have to wait long to remove the nuts and process them so that the nuts won’t sour. It is best to remove it on the day of the harvest or the following day because it is one of the best ways on how to make good palm oil.
3. Cooking the Harvested Palm Nuts
Some people who prepare palm oil use other means of extracting the oil from the nuts after harvesting and removing the nuts from the palm fruit head. However the best method to use in extracting oil from the nuts is by cooking. When I was younger, the nuts after being removed from the head are cooked overnight and by morning they are soft and can easily be prepared. To make the cooking well enough and the nuts well cooked, the nuts should be prepared and cooked overnight.
4. Extracting the Palm Oil
The next steps is how to extract the palm oil. What should be done is removing the cooked palm nuts from the pot and taking it to the place where the oil will be extracted. There is now machine used in doing it. The machine will turn the palm nuts and removed the soft back that contains the oil from the palm kernel.
After this is done, you should get a bigger pot or containers to put the kernel and the back and pour in water. Wait after some time, let me say an hour or two, and then you begin to remove the chaff and kernels by collecting them and pressing them hard to extract all the palm oil.
You keep the chaff one side and keep the palm kernels one side. When you are done, what should be in the container is palm oil hanging on the water. You get a clean basin and extract the oil on top to put in the basin. You should be careful so as to extract only the oil and not the dirt. The remaining water in the containers should be a waste and should be disposed.
5. Cook the Palm Oil Collected
This is the final step as you put the palm oil collected in a big pot and cook it again. However before you do this, ensure to sieve the palm oil you collected to remove some debris that you might have missed. Cook the palm oil for more than an hour, two hours thirty minutes on average and make sure it boils properly and is purified. You let it cool before you transfer it to the right container.
Bingo! You have your purified and delicious palm oil ready for anything you want to use it for.
This is the best way and procedure of how to make good palm oil. Nsukka palm oil is produced in the most hygienic and rigorous way. Whenever you use the palm oil, it gives you the taste you need in your food. It suits any type of food and can easily be used in place of vegetable oil if you are on a budget meal planning.