Extracting coconut butter
We made some progress with
our second coconut flour experiment, but we haven't figured it all the
way out yet. Mark had watched a
youtube video that showed how to extract coconut butter by drying
the meat and passing it through a juicer, so we started our experiment
by whirring the coconut meat up in the food processor, then letting it
dry out in the food dehydrator for about eight hours.
I suspect we made a
mistake when we turned off the dehydrator before supper and didn't get
to the juicing stage until a couple of hours later. In
retrospect, I think the dehydrating step wasn't meant to dry out the
coconut so much as warm it so the oils would flow better. Perhaps
that's why the juicer was only able to extract a moderate amount of oil
from the coconut meat.
I didn't think the
de-juiced coconut meat was fine enough to bake with, so I passed the
fragments through the MagicMill on its most coarse setting.
Unfortunately, there were still enough oils left in the meat that the
coconut flour gunked up the machine, just
like last time.
Clearly, we need to figure out the extracting step better before we put
the remains through the mill.
I can tell we're making
progress, though. Look --- coconut butter separated from
something vaguely resembling coconut flour!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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