After eating (and making rambutan syrup with F&N rose syrup -I recommend this- ) 46 rambutans, this is what we got; 46 seeds. Doesn't seem that much from here but trust us we took long to finish it.
All the flesh on the rambutans were removed till the seed is left, bare naked.
Initially, we tried to use a mortar and pestle to grind the rambutan seeds into finer pieces. However, we realised it takes too long. Of course it does. Naeem's mom scolded us and said 'Do you want to do this till night?!'
In the end, we employed the help of a wet blender and managed to use it to shred the rambutan seeds into finer pieces. It was noisy, shredding the seeds between the blades. This blender is supposedly used for food with very wet mediums.
1.4. The seeds were spread out evenly on the tray.
Then, the seeds were dried in an oven to remove moisture in the seeds at 1100C for 20 minutes.
After drying, the total mass of seeds weigh 101.37g. The seeds smell nice. Baked seeds. Remember how even the rambutan seeds is beneficial? We should eat them. Wait, no we need to make biodiesel.
How does it feel to start early? You are progressing based on the schedule. One input, do include the weight of the initial whole rambutan fruits (flesh, seed, peels) that you used to obtain the final dried seed.
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