How to get Palm Oil?
I am trying to make my own Nutella from raw ingredients. I have tried many recipes and eventually bought a wet grinder to make smooth hazelnut paste. Then I bought criollo couverture chocolate and I was able to make the most amazing hazelnut-cocoa-spread. But it has a flaw, it is too soft and it becomes almost liquid when spread on a fresh toasted bread slice.
So I tried to replace some of the oil I used with cacao butter and it was better. Then I used coco oil for the rest and it was perfect. But again this recipe have a big issue. coco oil and cacao butter are both worth than palm oil in terms of saturated oil.
Now I am trying to buy some "palm oil" but this looks like mission impossible. I either find cosmetic products, or articles about deforestation. When a find an interesting shop, it sells liquid reddish palm oil, not the white buttery paste I saw on how is it made.
Where can I find palm oil and how should I call it?
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Based on your description of being more solid, I think you might actually want palm shortening. Shortening is 100% fat and doesn't contain any water, making it more solid at room temperature.
Palm shortening does look a little closer to butter
A quick google search shows that Amazon does sell palm shortening.
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Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy fruit, and palm kernel oil which comes from crushing the kernel, or the stone in the middle of the fruit. Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop.Where does most of the palm oil come from?
Around 90% of the world's oil palm trees are grown on a few islands in Malaysia and Indonesia \u2013 islands with the most biodiverse tropical forests found on Earth. In these places, there is a direct relationship between the growth of oil palm estates and deforestation.How is palm oil made step by step?
The first step in the palm oil production process is harvesting the palm fruit. Harvested bunches are transported to factories where they are first sterilised and then threshed. Once separated from the bunch, the fruits go through a digester, to then be mechanically pressed in order to extract oil from the pulp.How do you extract palm oil?
84% of global palm oil production comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. In the chart we see the production of the palm oil plant across a number of countries. Other producers include Thailand, Colombia, Nigeria, Guatemala, and Ecuador.Palm Oil Production Process
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What you are missing are the terms "RBD" and "food grade". RBD means "refined, bleached, deodorized" - palm oil is red and smelly when pressed, so this process changes it to the white mass you want.
Palm oil is also frequently fractioned into palm olein and palm stearine, the stearine being harder. But I can't tell you which one is used in the production of Nutella, or if they are using the full mixture or a further-processed product like the shortening Alex linked. You will have to experiment there.
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