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I have two hands, the left and the right.
I had a full schedule today but despite that I still find to write and here I am again looking at this blank space of my screen but as the clock ticks my mind is working to formulate sentences in order to fill in this blank space. Oh I just remember the song of Beyonce, Blank Space and I'm currently humminging it's tone. Huh, is it Beyonce? Oh no. It was Taylor Swift lol. haha. My mind stop for a second, 10 seconds to be exact while remembering if it was Beyonce then my mind can't settle so I look into my music then search it then I found I was wrong haha. I will not correct what's in my sentence above because it will ruin my construction of the next sentences and I don't want to delete it haha. Sorry for being stubborn but I know some of you just sang my title haha. I don't know if you remember it but when we were in kinder we used to sang that song. Also the song Ako si Takure with the matching hand gestures. Oh how good to remember those memories wherein I was just a litte kid with cute face and decaying teeths due to overeating of sweets hahaha. Well it's free to judge yourself as cute so yeah peace huhu. I will write what my mind will say and my hands are unstoppable in doing the impossible again. Isn't it cool that our mind can talk even if it has no mouth and it was called telepathy, wow. I just made that up and please bear with me on how this article will go because I'm just too tired to think complicated topics for now. Well it's not that new because as you can see in my articles, they are not that complicated to understand because most of them are just a realization about our life and you can learn lesson that we need and we must exercise in life. I can't write about my SmartBch adventure yet because for the mean time I haven't explore anything aside from my past exploration of the existing Dexes and tokens which is sleeping so soundly and I think they have no plans to wake up from their dreams lol. I'm playing musics now and you may wonder why? Well it helps me to stimulate the super powers of my brain. Cool right? Maybe others are not that suited in this kind of method and they prefer to think while the surrounding is quiet and calm. I can do that too but it depends upon the situation I'm in such as reviewing for exams and many complicated stuffs. What I mean in complicated is that when you can't find the starting point of the thread rolled in a small tube lol because it was tangled to the whole thread and you'll end up cutting it to make a starting point but later on still you can't pull it off hahaha. I do that while having sweets beside me in order for me to concentrate in memorizing informations such as the Table of ements huhu. I'm sure we all experienced it while we were in highschool. I was to nervous back then because our teacher used index card with our names written on it then randomly pick them. I ended up saying Potassium which is present in milk instead of Calcium lol. **What makes me tired today?** Well yesterday my hands was very tired too because my grandma told me to open matured coconuts and that will be use in making oil, coconut oil to be precise. If you live here in the province you know how to make your own oil. Coconut oil is a natural one and can be use in all sorts of things such as cooking, skin care and for the hairs of ladies also. They said that it helps in making it long. I opened 30 pieces of coconuts using a bolo. I started to do the work around 8:30 am and I finished around 11 am. In the afternoon I removed the small remnants from the husk to make it more clean. I felt that my arms muscles was tired and that's the reason why I slept early. This day I did the scraping of those coconuts from yesterday using the homemade grater. Let me take a picture of it and let me tell you some history of this one. The age of this grater is the same as the age of my grandfather which is 67 years old. Yeah it's that old already and still I'm able to use it.
I scraped 15 of the 30 pieces and the total of that 15 pieces was 30 pieces because it was devided into two so 15 times 2 is 30. Imagine how's my condition awhile ago haha. I started around 8 am and I finished 12 noon. When I rest I get my phone and upvoted some articles. Multi-tasking yeah.
My lola guided me on how to prepare the grated coconuts and on how to cook it. Well it's just so simple, get all the coconut milk by squashing the grated coconuts and put it in a big pan or caserole, we used big kaldero and I don't it's name in english,sorry huhu.
Bring it to boil until the water in it is evaporated and the virgin coconut oil is left. As you bring it to boil the process is automatic and leave it just that for hours. You can see some matters forming and we called it ladik in ilocano, the one used as toppings in Bikos. All that happenings today was all worth it because the result was just satisfying. We were able to gather a lot of virgin coconut oil from those 15 pieces. My expectation was it will produce only a little but it produce more than my expectations. See the photo below.
***Author's note*** That's how my tiring friday went and I can say that all the efforts is all worth it. Before I cooked those grated coconuts, I prayed and requested that maybe it will produce a lot of oil and look what happened. From that single prayer it changed the outcome compared to my expectation so always pray whatever your situation is. Because God already put the miracle into motion once you prayed. Thank you for reading upto this far and see you again next time.
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31 comments
Sobrang dami naman 'non. Masakit yun sa likod kakayud ng niyog. When I was young, I used to use coconut milk for my hair. Kaya sobrang itim ng buhok ko noon.
Masakit po pero medyo mawala nung meron na yung result ..atleast sulit ..hihi.. Oh diba..Effective diba na pampaitim ng buhok and yung naglalagas pa daw mainam.
Yes, yan din ginamit ko nung ang dami ng hair falls ko after ko nanganak.hihi
Mainam din daw po para di magkaroon ng gray hair..hihi
Oh God that's so tiring, i suddenly remember when I was still living in the Philippines, that's also the way we scrap the coconut 😅.
Yunnn.. I'm not the only one who experienced doing this one.. It's tiring but it's just like riding a horse but the horse can't settle down haha.
I could relate your experience even the point of your title. Holding the coconut with two hands is not easy. how much more in extracting the oils from the nut.
Yes my friend it takes a lot of energy to extract the oil from jt..but all the tiredness will be gone if that is the kinf of result you can get.
It's really tough one. That's the reason why I finished my studies in college.
Awiee meron din pala kayong ganyan kuys. May dalawa kaming ganyan kapag ginagamit ko yan, nasakit talaga kamay ko. Ang dulas pa kasi yung oil ng niyoh, lumalabas na rin sa balat. Healthy coconut oil.
Lalo na pag makapag yung laman ng niyog haha..parang si naman na numinipis .kahit kayod ka ng kayod.. Madami din benefits kasi kaya iniinom ko minsan..
Real tough job indeed friend. We also do this at home so i can know how difficult this task is.
Oh you have that kind of coconut grater also friend?
For these many years we had. Now its a year we replaced with electric coconut grater
That will make the work easier then ..that's great. Less time to be consumed.
Ys friend
I remember the song "ako si takure" favorite song ni hubby nung bata pa sya and he tried to teach it to his kids with action.😅 Anyway ang galing mo naman magkudkod ng niyog, dito di na uso yan, may machine na silang ginagamit. Pero I remember using it in the province nakakapagod.
Yiee..I'm sure po natutuwa mga bata paf nag aaction po si hubby mo hehe..Pati rin po sa bayan meron narin pero mahal din ata ..per piraso ng niyog.
Hahaha! Syempre nung bata pa sila tuwang tuwa sila, ngayon awkward na😅 Dito libre basta bibili ka ng niyog, may kasama pang piga.
Curious lang ako 🥲 pwede kaya gamitin ang coconut oil, kapalit sa pang gas ? haha I mean, sa sasakyan? After ko basahin to iyan agad pumasok sa isip ko wengya haha
May napanood ako sa facebook na ginawang alternative yung used cooking oil na pang gas sa sasakyan..so far ok naman daw at walang depekto sa makina.. pero ewan sa coconut oil.😁
Ang galing ang dami nyan. Naaalala ko pinakayod nya ko nyan kasi maggata kami sa ulam, jusko abutin ako syamsyam hahahaha. Latik naman yung tawag samin yung nilalagay na topings sa biko
Kung hindi kapo talaga sanay eh aabutin po talaga ng siyam siyam haha ..gaya po nung nagsisimula palang ako na magkudkud ng niyog...Ah so yan po siguro tagalog nung ladik sa ilokano ..
I can relate to your experience because I know how hard it is to use the two hand to break coconuts as many as possible for the production of oil.
Yeah..it really depends on how many the coconuts are ..but I just learned a way to produce more oil even if the coconuts are not that many.
That looks like a lot of oil. Perhaps, the day was tiring. Just take the rest of the night to rest. After reading your blog, I realized the hard work of producing VCO.
It was really tiring and I had enough rest last night..Good to go again.
Grabe ti effort nya tatnu lang makaaramid ti coconut oil. Ada met grater mi idi which is as old as I am until it finally broke some years ago ngem mas grabe ta usar u. Agasem ta 67 years :D
Ohooi kami noong nakaraan naman nag gata. Bale 10 niyog lang yun 4 sakin tas kay mommy 6 hahaha kakatuwa din ee. Mas prefer ko pa yung ganon kesa maglakas sa palengke at gumastos ng pagkalaki laki sa pagpapakayod at piga. May pang kayod naman so mas better yon diba eheee. Tapos nailuto din para sa mantika. Nilalagay ko nga sa hair ko ung iba haha
Tama Yan mas mabuti Ng may karanasan sa mga bagay- bagay. Isa din Yan sa mga gawain Namin noon Ang paggagata para I halo sa gulay.
What an excellent article my friend, it's great to know how you make coconut oil, by the way, do you sell it where you live? I don't understand how to use that homemade grater, but good that you were able to do all that work with a lot of effort and you got more oil than you expected, always think positive and you will see how you get much more.