How To Make Corn Oil
Diet conscious people prefer using corn oil for cooking purposes. Of course corn oil adds more flavour to your food and helps you maintain your cholesterol level reasonably. If you have grown some corn in your backyard, you can extract oil from it at home. It might be a tedious process to make corn oil at home but it might be fun at the same time. The amount of oil you can extract at home will certainly not match the one which corn oil manufacturers produce on gigantic scale but you will have the surety that you are using 100 per cent pure corn oil! You don’t need heavy machinery or any specialised electronic equipment for extracting corn oil at home.
Instructions
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Get started with filling an averaged sized tub or bucket to three quarters. It is better to use distilled or purified water for this purpose, as you will have to eat this oil in food afterwards.
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Next comes the vital step of crushing corn to extract corn slime. A mechanical press can be effectively used to crush corn with your hands. Press the corn as much as you can and keep dropping the pulpy goo into the water tub by scouring the mechanical press. The oil in corn will start floating on the water surface in the tub, whilst the kernel pieces will separate from it automatically. This floating oil is what you actually need in the further steps.
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Remove the corn pieces and bits from the water. You can easily screen the contents in the tub into another clean tub. This will filter out the kernel pieces and allow the water-oil mixture to gather in the second tub. You won’t need the corn pieces for oil making purpose anymore and can dispose them off. However, these kernel pieces can be fed to birds if you have any at home!
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Now you have a clean mixture of water and oil in a tub. Now all you need is to wait for the water to evaporate and leave behind pure corn oil. You can put the tub in the sun and let the water evaporate. This might take some days, depending on how intense sunlight you have provided and the weather conditions. To avoid any bugs or contamination to fall in the tub, you can cover it up with a screen or a thin piece of cloth.
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The sun will evaporate all the water from the tub and a yellowish layer of thick liquid will appear in the tub. Yes! You have made pure corn oil at home. Scrape it up with a rubber spatula and use this oil for cooking healthy food.
