Here's how to make oil from walnuts. I haven't done it yet, because I'm still searching for a nut/seed oil extractor machine. - Crack the walnuts.
- Grind the walnut meats in a standard meat grinder. Be sure to have a clean bucket or bowl underneath to catch the walnut meats after the first grinding.
- Using a big cast iron pot, cook the walnut meat with a little bit of water. Over a fire is fine. Takes about 30 minutes, constantly stirring, with a big wooden spoon or wooden paddle.
- Place the cooked hot walnut meat in a press.
- Here's the tricky part - you need to set up some kind of a press, with LOTS of strength and force with gentleness. You don't actually pound the walnut meats, just press them. Have a strong tray to hold the walnut meats, and a way to drain the oil from there to a waiting jar or bucket. NOTE: I've seen car jack hydraulic systems being used but I don't think I could do that.
- Seal and store in the fridge.
Sorry - this is the best I can come up with ... so far! I'm still searching for a nut/seed oil extractor. Anyone?
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Are you still searching for an oil press? Producing my own oil has been high on my list of things to do and I have recently gotten a hand cranked oil press I imported from Europe. I've been making all of my own oil from seeds I have grown and have been experimenting with nuts and everything has been a wild success other than the oily mess I have made in the kitchen. It takes vry little time at all to make a pint of oil, the other day I was able do do a pint of walnut oil in about 15 minutes, of course the quality of the oil is superb.
The press is simple and I am going to work on building them to offer for sale here in the US if I see that there will be enough market for them to justify the expense of buying the tools to build them. I have several people interested in presses.
If you want to contact me to talk about oil pressing feel free, I've done quite a bit of it, I also have a large commercial press system that I use for oil for fuel in my diesel engines and have pressed many hundreds of gallons of canola oil with that system as well. christopherscigliano@hotmail.com
We are still searching for an oil press. Please let us know if you are building them. jackson dot noah at gmail dot com
Yes, actually found one, although I can't afford to buy it yet.
http://www.lehmans.com/
it's in their catalog but I have troubles with their website. It's pretty reasonably priced and looks like it can do a LOT!
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