5 Easiest Vegetable Oils to Make at Home

Today we are going to take a look at the 5 easiest vegetable oils to make at home. Making your own vegetable oils will take you to another and definitely higher level. I firmly believe, everything you make with your own hands will be much better, much tastier and will represent a much higher value.

I know, I know, who has time for doing everything by themselves? – you could ask. Well, my answer is, you really don’t need to prepare every each of consumer products by yourselves. But it’s worth choosing several stuff, your absolutely favorites, especially health-related ones. What am I thinking of? Well, firstly for example your meals. Try not to buy TV suppers and similar stuffs at the supermarkets, and believe me, your body will be grateful and your stomach will be relieved. As for me, I extremely love cooking, baking and everything in connection with kitchen. Since I started to make almost every kind of meals I eat, I have discovered a completely new, magic and very delicate world. Let’s see an example! I have always loved pâté, and since I learned how to make it, I haven’t bought any in the shops. It’s not about saving money, it’s about to eat meals at a high quality! If you check out the prices of the vegetable oils, on the sites of the largest edible oil companies, you will see that your oil will save some bucks for you.  So today, we are going to learn how to make vegetable oils at home! Will you come with me?

Preparing you own vegetable oil doesn’t only mean something you can use in the kitchen, but a product can be used in home-cosmetology and these oils also help to protect you health. The very first task is to decide what type of oil would you like to have. If you want to get an oil that possesses special fragrant and can add something plus to your meals, it’s worth using pumpkin hazelnut, or walnut. Generally speaking, if you fill a 2-liter bottle will seeds, you will get around a quart of oil. The process itself is very easy. Oil pressers used to be horribly costly, but nowadays there are small machines in the market, that are perfectly good for home-use.

After all this introduction, let’s see the process. It’s very simple. We just set up our machine, and use the recommended flammable to fill the heating unit, the we let it heat about for 10 minutes. Then fill the hopper with your seeds, it will take around 20 minutes until the machine makes a quart of oil, which comes from about a 2-liter bottle full of seeds. This oil can be stored up to 2 years in a cool dry place. Simple, right? These machines can be bought on the top online shopping websites as well, such as Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Lowe’s Companies (NYSE:LOW), AMAZON (NASDAQ:AMZN).  Or, you can buy your machine in one of the 15 biggest malls in the US. However, it’s worth checking prices on the sites of the 15 biggest retailers in the world. Also, it’s important to drink enough water, so we recommend you to read the article about the 10 healthiest bottled water brands. 

In this article we are going to help you to choose among the easiest vegetable oils to make at home. Actually, the process itself is the same, whichever oil you want to make, but we have picked up five seeds you can get easily and everywhere. These are sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts and walnuts. All of them can be purchased even in the smallest shops, but if you really health-conscientious, you  buy them in a bio shop. Then, we ranked these seeds by their yield per quart of oil. In order to get the easiest seeds and the process, we consulted several “how to make” sites. Sunflower and pumpkin seeds have the same yields, so they both got the fourth spot on our compilation.

And now, without a further ado, let’s see the easiest vegetable oils to make at home, starting with number four:

4. Sunflower

Yield per quart of oil: 5.3 pounds

Vitamins content: A, D, E

Mineral content: magnesium, calcium, potassium

Sunflower oil is the most common one among the easiest vegetable oils that can be made at home. It has several great properties, but it perhaps the most modest of all. Perhaps because we all know it, and its taste is pretty neutral. But keep in mind, oil made at home has always much more intense taste than that of oils can be bought at the supermarkets. Once you have prepared sunflower oil, you will surely be surprised, how much it differs from that crappy ones on the shelves of the shops. It contains lots of antioxidants, which helps you to fight against free radicals and harmful effects of sunbeams. In addition, it is a non-comedogenic carrier oil, which doesn’t clog your pores yet highly absorbent. It can be used for any types of skin.  It also facilitates wound healing, as treating the wounds with it, they will cure much faster, due to its oleic acid content.

4. Pumpkin

Yield per quart of oil: 5.3 pounds

Vitamins content: A, B1, B2, B3, B6, C

Mineral content: magnesium, calcium, copper, iron, potassium, phosphorus and selenium

Up on the list of the easiest vegetable oils to make at home, I must confess pumpkin seeds oil is my absolutely favorite one. Generally I just take a piece of toast and dunk it into a cup of pumpkin oil… If you haven’t tried it yet, I really recommend to do so, and I bet it will open the door of a totally new world for you! But it’s not only one of the most delicate oils in the world, but it can boast with lots of great effects on your health. For the first, it has positive effects on your hair growth, without any side effects. Due to its high unsaturated fats contents, it makes positive effects on your heart, your urinary health and on menopause. But I have a tasty idea for you – if you are sweet-toothed, why don’t you make a pumpkin seed bundt cake?

3. Peanuts

Yield per quart of oil: 4.6 pounds

Vitamins content: E, B1, B2, B6

Mineral content: magnesium, calcium, copper, iron, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, manganese and selenium

Peanut oil has also several use, you can use it for cooking and frying, like sunflower oil. It smoke point is relatively high at 437℉ (225℃). This makes possible to use for cooking unlikely walnut or pumpkin oils, which are generally used for finishing dishes. Due to its high vitamin E content, even one tablespoon of peanut oil contains 11% of recommended daily quantity. Peanut oil is rich both in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, which may protect you from the risk of heart attack. If you suffer from diabetes – peanut oil is really for you, as it improves insulin sensitivity. It helps reduce high blood sugar, and due to its high vitamin E content, it protects your body from the damage of free radicals.

2. Hazelnuts

Yield per quart of oil: 3.6 pounds

Vitamins content: E, C, B1, B2

Mineral content: magnesium, calcium, copper, iron, potassium

1. Walnuts

Yield per quart of oil: 2.9 pounds

Vitamins content: A, C, D, E,

Mineral content: magnesium, calcium, copper, iron, potassium, phosphorus and zinc

Walnut oil tops the list of the 5 easiest vegetable oils to make at home. Cold-pressed walnuts oil contains several essential nutrients, that are indispensable for our health. As you can see 2.9 pounds of walnuts are enough to gain quart of oil, which can be used for quite a long time. If you have tasted walnuts oil you know it has deep, intense, walnutty but thick taste. When using it for dishes, the best if we finish meals with it. It’s extremely delicious for salads. But we can’t only cook with it! Walnut oil is perfect for easing various diseases, as well. It is used as a treatment for fungal infections, such as jock itch or athlete’s foot. But if you have acne you can fight against it successfully with the help of this magic oil. Then it reduces signs of ageing and helps removing dark circles under your eyes. Walnut oil reduces or prevents wrinkles, as its vitamin B contents rejuvenate skin. But you can also reduce the trace of stress, eczema, bags under your eyes, additionally if you have digestive problems or asthma – do not hesitate to consume it every day!

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