@Chief_Mekus 28 April 2022

Learnt Something New

Source https://images.pexels.com/photos/36744/agriculture-arable-clouds-countryside.jpg?cs=srgb&dl=pexels-pixabay-36744.jpg&fm=jpg A very good evening to my dear readcash readers. Before I begin, I want to sincerely thank my sponsors, my readcash audience and subscribers. God bless you all.  Here are their beautiful faces. ABOUT TODAY Today was a very nice day because I made the most out of it.  It's been more than 2 Months since the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) put learning in all government-controlled universities on hold due to a misunderstanding with the government and my school was duly affected.   So each new day at home presents an opportunity to learn something new and grandma has always made sure I kept to it. Today I learned how to process Palm Fruit and get Palm Oil from it.  So here are the steps we undertook in order to get it done.

STEP 1 After the removal of the palm fruit from the thorns, the palm fruits were put in a pot of water and boiled till they were moisturized and tender. STEP 2 The tenderized palm fruits were put in a large bowl for the removal of the peels. It is done for the effective extraction of the oil and for the separation of the Peels from the nut itself.

**STEP 3** After the peels were removed, water was added to it, so as to extract the oil and separate the chaff and palm nut.

STEP 4 After the oil was extracted and removed, it was put on fire and heated to boiling.

STEP 5 After some time, the processed palm oil was removed from the fire and allowed to cool.

STEP 6 After cooling, it was sieved, so as to separate the nut and the remaining chaff from the oil itself.

At the end of the day we had our oil; it wasn't really an easy process, but we were successful in the end. From the last picture, you could notice that there was a nut inside of the oil. I wanted to remove it but grandma said that I shouldn't do it because it would begin to thicken. So I left it that way. In other news, the Greatest of All Time, *Cristiano Ronaldo* scored his 17th league goal of the season in a 1-1 draw against Chelsea. You can imagine the joy, I'm feeling right now. Today was indeed a nice day.  All pictures were taken by me. APRIL 28, 2022.