Step-by-step Oil-making Guide?

Posted By Abby (San Felice Circeo, Italy) on 03/15/2007

I would like to know if you could give me a clearer way (step by step) to make coconut oil. I read the part where you grate the coconut and put it in water. what I don't underderstand is what happens to the grated coconut does it float to the top becoming the oil or is it in some way discarded? thank you for your help, abby
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Replied by Colleen (Brooklyn, USA)

Abby asked what to do with the grated coconut. water is poured over the finely grated coconut and it can be placed in a very fine seive or into a piece of cloth and squeezed to extract the milk doing this twice to extract all the milk from the grated coconut meat. the milk is covered and left to sit overnight, the cream/fat rises to the top. skim cream/fat off top and follow the instructions previously given.
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