Preparing Virgin Coconut Oil

Preparing Virgin Coconut Oil

Preparing Virgin Coconut Oil
Tools and materials

Tools and materials used in the manufacture of VCO is:

1 Machinery and Equipment
a. Production Machinery
Production machines used for the manufacture of virgin coconut oil (VCO) is as follows:

Engine grated coconut

Function: grate the coconut meat grated coconut to be ready to squeeze.
How it works: shredders that has sharp blades spinning and grate coconut meat.
Capacity: at least 100kg / h
Motor power: minimum 1 HP
Motor rotation: 1400 rpm.

Engine Vacuum Evaporator
Capacity: ± 7 kg / process
Cooking oil volume: 52 liters
LPG gas requirements: 0.3 to 0.75 kg / h
Power Requirement for Vacuum Pump: 1500 watts
Power Requirement spinner (dryers): 300 watts
Engine size (120 x 120 x 60) Cm2

Specification:
1 water jet vacuum pump, serves to suck the air in the frying chamber so that the pressure becomes low, and material to suck water vapor.
2 Tube frying, serves to condition the material according to the desired pressure. Tube fitted inside a semi-circular fruit basket.
3 Condenser, serves to condense the water vapor released during frying. This condenser uses water as cooling.
4 units of heating, LPG ​​gas stoves.
5.Unit Operation and Control (Control Box). Serves to activate the vacuum device and heating units.
6 Part stir-fry, serve to stir the fruit that was in a tube pan. This part per sil strong to keep the vacuum tube.

b. Production equipment
The equipment used in the production process VCO among others are as follows:
Machete function is to divide the coconut.
 Buckets and Basins
Function buckets and basins, among others, is a container that holds the results of each of these processes result either in the form of waste or residue    spoon
Function spoon in the production process is helping to take the dregs stuck during the process of the vacuum engine friying.

Funnel
Funnel serves to assist in inserting the VCO into the bottle.
   White cloth
White cloth serves to squeeze the coconut milk.
   scales
Scales serve to weigh or measure the weight of materials and results of VCO products
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 Erlenmeyer
Erlenmeyer serves to measure the volume of material and the results of VCO products.

2 Ingredients
The materials used are:

a. Raw materials
The raw material is the main ingredient used in the manufacture of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO), where such material is not there then the making of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) can not be done. The raw material of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is the coconut meat is aged 10-12 months.

b. Supplementary Material
Additional materials are materials that exist in the final product Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO), but did not participate in the production process and can add value to a product. Additional materials used are bottles.

c. Suplement materials
Auxiliary materials are the materials needed in the production of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO), but not the existing materials in the final product Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO). Auxiliary materials in the production process of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) is a useful stone zeolite to purify the result of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO).

Benefits
 A wide variety of diseases can be prevented by consuming VCO because of the medium chain fatty acids such as lauric acid in the VCO tersebut.Beberapa efficacy of the VCO is to kill a variety of viruses, bacteria, fungi and yeast causes a variety of diseases, prevent hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, liver and prevent enlargement of the prostate gland.
Coconut oil can treat various sexually transmitted diseases, such as herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) and HIV-1, as well as the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoe. Medium chain saturated fats found in coconut oil is very helpful in weight control especially obese patients who are disease as a result of wrong diet. Saturated fatty acids are not stored as energy reserves but directly burned to produce energy.

Steps of Preparing VCO

VCO-making technique is done by gradual and controlled heating.

a. Preparation of raw materials
VCO is the main ingredient of making fresh coconuts that are old or mature with characteristic brown husk and no one has germinated fruit. Age range 11-12 months coconuts. Thus coconut oil will produce a yield that much.

b. Making coconut milk
Coconut milk is made by don peeled shredded coconut grater machine then squeezed with water at a ratio of coconut water don 2: 1 Separation suntan don coconut pulp is done by filtered with cloth or sieve.

c. Separation Cream
Coconut milk is placed in a plastic container or transparent plastic bucket. The use of container / Transparent plastic bucket milk intended that the material in the container will be visible from the outside. Thus the separation of the coconut milk with the cream will be easily observed. Coconut milk is allowed to stand for 3 hours. After 3 hours of coconut milk will separate into three layers of cream (oil-rich), a middle layer of skim (protein-rich) and under a layer of sediment. Parts used in the making VCO is cream. Cream was separated by using a small plastic tube, one end of the hose is laid on a layer of cream and the other end of the reservoir container.

d. Heating creamy coconut milk
Cream is an oil-rich part of the coconut milk. In order for the oil content can be retrieved from the cream will require heating process at a temperature of 80-100 ° C. The heating can be done in a frying pan over the fire using the new (not used for processing other products). This is done to avoid changes and color of the oil produced. Stirring is carried out continuously. Prolonged heating milk to obtain immature oil is 3 hours marked blondo formation. Blondo formed is still white and still contains oil 10-15%. To remove the oil from the pressing blondo blondo done. Materials oil cooled and filtered three times using filter paper.

e. heating oil
To get pure oil, oil immature reheated. Heating is carried out at a temperature of 80-100 ° C until a clear colorless oil. If there blondo, blondonya light brown.

f. oil filtration
Oil (VCO) is colored nodes removed and cooled. After the oil cooler filtered with filter paper and collected with glass containers. Filter paper can be obtained at pharmacies. In order to efficiently filtering, the container should be glass containers or small-mouthed glass container.

g. Packaging
Once filtered several times (3-4 times) VCO obtained using a translucent color packed with bottles of plastic or glass with customized size and closed watertight and labeled. Furthermore preparing virgin coconut oil  VCO ready for the market.

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