Whether it's sunflower seed oil for salads or cooking, or bio-diesel to power your car, this article shows you how to make both a seed huller and an oil press to extract oil from sunflower and other types of seed.
Using the blower end of a vacuum cleaner the seed huller separates seeds from hulls, while the seed press, made from a standard hydraulic jack, cold presses the oil from the seeds. You can even use the Calder Grain Grinder to break the hulls instead of the commercial grain mills recommended in the article. This article, reprinted at Journey to Forever shows us how.
"In 2,500 square feet, a family of four can grow each year enough sunflower seed to produce three gallons of homemade vegetable oil suitable for salads or cooking and 20 pounds of nutritious, dehulled seed -- with enough broken seeds left over to feed a winter's worth of birds.
The problem, heretofore, with sunflower seeds was the difficulty of dehulling them at home, and the lack of a device for expressing oil from the seeds. About six months ago, we decided to change all that."
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