Hivers,good day to you and a merry Christmas in advance.
Many of us have made used of oil palm in our day-to-day cooking,some people mix the oil with other materials to make cream,it is used to cook soup as well,to eat yam etc...
Oil palm/palm oil tree is a tree of many wonders,a good number of uses has been associated with it,it is used to make sludge for animal feed,it is used to make broom,it is used to produce palm oil,you can tap wine on the tree etc.
Today while i went to the mancot park(bus park),i saw 3 freshly recruited Man 'O war boys being punished because of coming late,a little too over-the-counter kind of punishment if you ask me
Now to the processing of palm oil,the first step is to get the bunch of the oil palm and then to sterilize it,then it goes through winnowing and you thresh it.
There is an equipment in the farm and this equipment is called the digester,after boiling the oil palm in the boiler,we pour the boiled oil palm into the digester,after which it is taken to the presser.
Now the job of the presser is to actually "press" the oil out,the more you press,the higher the quantity of oil you get....oh i forgot about the very first thing we did...we weighed the bunches.
Don't worry,if you didn't read through the process,I'll help you send a pictorial representation of how it is done.
While pressing,we had a really hard time doing that because it got to a point where the wheel got really hard and up to 4 guys were pulling it.
Of course,we had the farm managers and a lecturer to guide us....okay so the oil gotten after pressing is not the palm oil,it still has to go through processing e.g removing the foam,solving coagulation etc
The lecturer took time to explain a few things to us,like the reason we weighed it is actually because of record keeping which is important for reference purpose and to know the estimated amount of oil palm that the bunches procured can produce.
He also mentioned why the raw oil is not fit for consumption and has to be processed
1.The raw oil has a high moisture content
2.It is not smooth enough
After the whole work and after the lectures,we were all tired and i snapped a few pictures,just for fun
I hope I've been able to walk you through my day
Thank you for being part of it
*All other picture not sourced were made by me using canva
Love you so so