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On 30 Mar 2005 17:13:38 -0800, the inscrutable
(Eric Gutierrez) spake:
Hi,
Here's more info:
I'm going to be processing about 500 coconuts per day at the start
(hope to grow to 10000 per day within a year). First, I need to grate
the coconuts to get -only- the cocomeat. Coconut meat is white, soft,
rubbery and almost dry unlike apples.
Ooh, too bad. I'm a coconut milk afficionado myself. Ever use an ounce
of coconut milk in your omelet? It's a most fluffy, tender treat!
I then will bag the coconut meat into a mesh-bag (or canvas bag). The
total volume of the bag is probably the equivalent of a basketball. I
can of course use smaller bags to make them fit in the die/plate. I
then need to press this bag as much as possible to extract coconut
milk (food, end-product). That's pretty much what I need to do. So
the 'die' or press-plates have to be food-grade, so I'm thinking
stainless steel.
I've been looking at cheap hydraulic shop presses around $100-400 at
http://www.asedeals.com/hydraulic_press.html
Perhaps the 30-ton version at $288.
I thought you wanted a HORIZONTAL machine, Eric.
I was thinking that I can just use food-grade dies/plates and put the
mesh-bags in-between the plates while the press works on pressing them
together and hold for a few minutes. While pressing, the coconut milk
will be collected somehow.
I would think that mesh bags would compress more eaisly than coconut
meat. Are you sure they're not cold-expeller pressing the stuff?
Again, thanks for any tips/advice.
Perhaps you could check with some of the repair companies in Thailand.
That's where most of our imported coco meat and milk comes from. Maybe
they could send some of the brochures for the production machines and
you'd geet a better idea of how the pros do it on a massive basis.
I'm really curious as to their processes, too.
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