How To Grow Avocado From Seed

Assalamualaikum & hi to all,

just finished my arabic homework and i am really in mood to post something about avocado. its about to grow avocado from its seed.

i read many avocado lovers grumbled about which technique is better than which in getting the root to come out from the seed. so, i intend to do the experiment myself. i named them as METHOD A and METHOD B.

so, you are going to need these items...

few avocados from the supermarket. they are Hass type, from South Africa.
 (i  bought this from our local supermarket , i didnt go to S.Africa haha...)

eat 2 avo, and keep their seeds.

a plastic and used news paper

a plastic cup/glass and toothpick

METHOD A

try to differentiate the head and the bottom of the seed. the one that is shown in the pic above is the bottom.
the root will come out from there

poke the 3 toothpick to the position shown above

place nicely so that the bottom of the seed will sip in the water

put near the window where it is exposed to sunlight. leave it there for 2-3 weeks.
  dont forget to change the water if it gets murky.
most importantly make sure there is no mosquitoes egg hatches! haha..

METHOD B

put the seed on the used news paper

wrap / crumble it with the seed inside

put in the plastic bag/container

fill in some water (tap water is fine)

throw the excess water. we just need the paper to be wet

fold loosely and leave it for 2-3 weeks

THE RESULT

FROM METHOD A
after 2 weeks plus, notice the crack, but no root

FROM METHOD B
same duration, it cracked and a healthy root jotting out from it

CONCLUSION

method B is better. you can place the seed on the soil now, placing the root in the soil. dont forget to water it :)

(sorry no pic of planting it the soil as i havent got the suitable pot for it)

good luck!

How To Produce Cold Pressed Avocado Oil At Home

Salam & hi to all,

to avocado oil lovers who have avo tress at home and want to extract 100% pure, uncooked avocado oil..

you are going to need :-

4 ripe avocados. some were still good and some, as you can see were half rotten

2 spoons or a pair of chopsticks if you have!

a plate (made of alloy, or steel)

or you can use a stainless steel tray (i got this recently)

small cloth, cotton or polyester

THE PROCESS

(if you dont have a blender/mixer)
take out the seed/stone and put the riped avo flesh in a alloy/steel container.
press and mash using the back of the spoon until all turned smooth

spread the smooth mashed avo and make the layer as thin as you can.
add more plates if you wish to

put under the hot sun until they turned dark.
i left this 3 plates from morning till the evening in a day.

scrap it out using a plastic spoon. it looks like copra

put all in a container

put a small portion (1 table spoon) on the cloth and spread them

and roll the cloth like shown above

take the 2 spoon and tie the end of each cloth like shown above

twist and squeeze as hard as you can. strong fingers are better and weak ones ;p

from 4 avocados. uncooked and vitamins preserved.

look at the color! green and smells nice with no burning smell! real, genuine and pure avo oil

i like to keep empty perfumes bottles. see? i got 2 bottles of 10ml avo oil and a bottle of 5ml avo. 

your dont have to have a special machine to extract/expel avocado oil. everything can be done at home.

4 avocados can produce 50-55 ml pure, cold pressed avocado oil. i am going to make the small bottle as my eye night cream coz it has roller ball. for my facial moisturizer, the10ml (bigger bottle) is enough for a  month supply. this means my supply is enough for 2 months, since i have 2 bottles of 10 ml avo oil. cheap, easy and halal! i just love this outcome :)

just imagine if you have an avo tree which produces uncountable of avo fruits! how i wished i have an avocado orchard....

anyway, happy trying and good luck :)

Difference Between Cold & Hot Pressed Avocado Oil

Salam & hi to all,

i read somewhere in the net, claiming that avocado wont secrete its oil below any temperature of 90 degrees Celsius. that was the real reason why  i cooked my avocado (just pressed them in a pan, under slow fire) to get its oil. and, of course, i managed to get it (please refer to my previous posts on avocado oil). 

then, i saw a word 'cold pressed avocado oil' and this has 'distracted' my mind a lot...i wanted to know whats the difference between the hot and cold pressed avocado oil. i need to challenge the previous 90 deg celsius theory, so, i began my research, on how to produce the proclaimed high quality cold pressed avocado oil BELOW 90 DEGREES CELSIUS. my kids whined 'oh no! not avocado experiment again!...haha..

i took approximately 500 gram of avocado and mashed them, till fine and smooth. then i spread the mashed avocado on a tray, spread them as little as to make a very very thin layer, and put them in a room with room temperature of 16 degrees Celsius. Malaysia is having hot climate, so i turned the aircondition on. actually, you can test by letting your wet shirt in an airconditioned room, and you would be surprised to see it would be dry in the next morning, so the theory goes the same to the spreaded mashed avocado on the tray :)

so, coming back to the avocado oil thing, after a day, the greenish avocado turned dark. i can see some oil being excreted there, and then i put the tray under the hot sun, for about few hours. eventually, everything turn out black! but the good thing is, there is no smell of carbon due to burning from cooking, like the previous experiment i did before. put them all in a piece of cloth, and squeeze as hard as you can...you would be delighted to see the almost clear yellowish avocado oil drips in the bowl..(sorry, no photo on the process, as my hp battery was week that time)

the hot pressed and cold pressed avocado oil

look at the picture above. the difference is contrast!

if you ask me, i prefer the 'uncooked' one. no wonder the price of cold pressed avocado oil in the market is incredibly expensive...

now, i just wonder whats the difference between virgin and extra virgin oil...why did they create so many terminology in producing oil?

argghhh!!!

How To Make/Extract 100% Avocado Oil (PART 2)

Salam & hi,

to tell you the truth, i was not really satisfied with the first avocado oil i made. its a bit smelly and i didnt really like it.

so, what i did, took another 2kg of bad avocado and made some alteration to the 'recipe'..

you are going to need :-

2kg (approximately ) of bad avocado

clean dry bottle. 

STEPS

put the whole 2 kg bad avocado into a medium sized frying pan.
Just avocado, no additional coconut oil , water nor baby oil.
Cook the avocado in medium fire. Press the avocado using the bottom part of the bottle.
press and press until it turns a bit dark (about 2 hours)  

Cooked and dry. put in a bowl

put some in a cloth to squeeze the cooked avocado.
Squeeze it into a different bowl (no picture of that )

pour the oil into the same bottle used in the earlier process. (you can use other bottle if you like)
this time, the oil extracted was a bit greenish. i like the color. 

almost 350 ml pure avocado oil. 100% avocado oil.

look at the waste. i have tried to use it as facial scrub, and guess what?
its fantastic!

i thought the smell would turn worse, but i was wrong. its simply avocado smell with avocado aroma.. you can use it as your salad dressing or can apply to moisture your dry skin/hair. 

the time used for the A-Z process was also shortened.....maybe due to no additional water/coconut oil/baby oil. i think i prefer the modified recipe rather than the previous one.

hmm...how nice if i were to have an avocado orchard :)

How To Make/Extract Avocado Oil

Salam & hi to all,

Today, i felt so happy for producing my very own avocado oil YEAY!!

Last month, i got 129 avocados which were 70% bad and 30% still can be eaten, ate 2 or 3 per day, and due to avocado doesnt last long,  they rot and couldnt be eaten anymore. to throw away almost 100 rotten avocado just like that? no way!

i browsed the net searching for tips how to extract avocado oil. searched in youtube, and google, my efforts were in vain. i have to use common sense how to do it. this is how i did it.

you are going to need :-

for the purpose of sharing, i just used approximately  2kg of bad avocado

1 liter coconut cream (optional, you can omit it if you want 100% avocado oil extract)

a piece of cloth and a bowl

250gram pure coconut oil, (this is also optional, you can also omit this)
(any brand, i bought this one from my Myanmar client)

use few table spoon of baby oil (if you cant stand the smell of cooked avocado,
this is optional, you can omit this if you like)

THE STEPS

pour the coconut cream and mix it with the avocado in a blender  machine

until really smooth

you can add more or if its too thick, you can add some tap water 

pour everything in a suitable sized pot, cook  in slow fire

. stir every 5 minutes. you can add the pure coconut oil and the baby oil if you like
(they are just optional)

its boiling... and look at the extracted avocado oil surfaced near the bubbles,
cook until it become a bit dried up..you will notice that the mixture expels water due to heat from the fire

cook and keep on stirring until the color become dark as shown above.
see the differencebetween a half cooked avocado (which i want to use as a hair/face mask)
and a well cooked avocado in the red tray

now to strain the mixture to get the oil.....put the cloth on top of the bowl

put the well cooked avocado on it

i love this part, especially when i see the oil drips into the bowl. squeeze hard the get the most out of it

pour the luxurious avocado oil in a clean dry bottle

proud to present, a bottle of homemade avocado oil

the waste. i didnt throw it, and
guess what? it can be used to wash the dishes !

avocado oil is reported to be better than olive oil for its nutrient content. i find that avocado is more than just better.

anyway, for the above home made avocado oil, the content of avocado oil is 85% i can say, and the rest of it is the mixture of the coconut oil and the baby oil. even though mine is only 85%, i believe the avocado dominates the whole oil mixture as the outcome isnt really greasy. maybe the coconut nucliec acid changes with heat or when mixed with the dominant ingredient, they might 'convert and transform' their identity? i dont know, i didnt score chemistry in school haha...

you can omit all except the avocado is you want 100% avocado oil output.

for the baby oil, it helps to give some fragrance to the oil.  it was my daughter's request actually as she wants to use it as well, and she hates bad smelling oil ;p..

i like the original smell, just love the originality and authenticity of avocado oil...

lets be grateful to Allah SWT for this magnificent creation, peace :)

NOTE : PLEASE CHECK MY OTHER WRITING ON HOW TO EXTRACT AVOCADO PART 2
http://maryamchin.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-produce-cold-pressed-avocado-oil.html