How to make oil from sunflower seeds at home?

If you want to make oil from sunflower seeds at home, a small sunflower oil press machine is needed for you. It can be a home use mini oil press machine or a small single screw sunflower oil press machine. Whichever machine you use, the first step you should do is make the sunflower seeds clean, without impurities. Because the impurities will wear the sunflower oil press machine, and reduce the oil yield. 

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The second step, put the cleaning sunflower seeds into your sunflower oil press machine to extract oil out. You may ask if you need to remove the shell of sunflower seeds, if your sunflower seeds are not too many, you can husk the sunflower seeds by hand. If you don't want to do that, it is OK, because husking is not the necessary steps.

Before the sunflower oil press machine works, remember to place a small jar or little bucket at the end of the drain spout. In this process, you should continue to pour the sunflower seeds into the inlet of the sunflower oil press machine and ensure the raw materials enters the machine continuously. The amount of oil that you can produce will depend on the quality of the sunflower oil press machine, and the number of sunflower seeds that you have prepared. (Related reading: How dose sunflower oil press machine work?)

There is a kind of sunflower oil press machine with two filter buckets, which is popular among customers. After the oil is extracted from sunflower seeds, it will go into the filter bucket to be removed some impurities, and then flows from outlet.

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The third step, the sunflower oil can be used directly to cook. You will notice that your homemade sunflower oil taste fresher and more flavorful. But you should know how to storage the sunflower oil properly. Make sure to fill the jars or bottles completely to the top with sunflower oil. And store in a cool and dry location. Sunflower oil can keep for up to two years.

If you want to get sunflower oil with better quality, buy a small cooker together. Before extracting oil, roast the sunflower seeds in the small cooker, it will improve the oil yield and make the flavor of sunflower oil better.

Henan Doing Company can provide you small cooker, two kinds of sunflower oil press machine: single screw sunflower oil press machine without filter bucket, single screw sunflower oil press machine with two filter buckets. These machine are suitable for below 5 tons per day sunflower seeds input capacity. If you want to extract oil from sunflower seeds at home, contact us!