Making Cacao Butter
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A Piteba oil press is useful for making oil from sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, cacao seeds etc. I made some sunflower seed oil today and it is delicious - light, fragrant and, of course, fresh as hell. This video shows me making cacao butter from the cacao I grow in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, the video ends just before I break the machine by cranking too hard.
Making Cacao Butter
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Im in Colombia, and I stop with the cacao, I kept braking bolts and finally blackish-grey oil started coming out because of the friction inside. Plus the cake was always like a stone, hard, impossible and very time consuming to wash. Im now more with dry pieces of coconut, and the amounts and efforts involved are much more rewarding, even thou I miss the cacao butter. I knew about peacegecko comment below, but or I didn’t hit it or I guess is more a press inadequacy.
I have been having roblems with this product.How do you stop the press cake from stoping up the cap.The manual says the nuts/seeds might be too dry buy I have tried walnuts,almonds,flax,sesame,ect. and I don’t thik all of them are too dry.Could just
mix a little water with a ground up nut/seed and work,thanks.
hihihih, good muscles exercise in same time =)) Mnahhhh! That bicycle construction looked interresting, i think i will do that too.
@farazathul its not a grinder, you can find cheaper grinders online or anywhere. this is a seed/nut oil press, way more expensive, and smaller capacity.
did you read the instructions? the wick is too long if you are getting soot. and the nuts/cacao seeds are too dry if you aren’t getting oil. you need to soak them to get an 8% moisture content. if you go to lehmans.com product listing for this press for sale, it has a link to download specs and instructions. the nuts look too dry to me- thus causing the crank to be extremely difficult to operate, and not getting oil. good luck!
bigcotie, I am using the leftovers to make chocolate powder. I sell this along with my chocolate – people love it. It is much richer than the stuff you can buy in a store…
what did you make with the left overs ?
can i use normal grinder for crafty purposes?