Cassava starch is widely used in food and non-food processing industry. In our real life, the application of cassava starch can be seen everywhere. So do you want to know how to make cassava starch at home? This article will introduce handmade and mechanical cassava starch making methods at home.

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How to make cassava starch at home? Handmade & Mechanical production

If you just want to make cassava starch at home for food use and required quantity is not too much, you can finish the process by hands.

Firstly wash cassava to remove attached impurities. Then peel cassava and cut it into small pieces, mash it into paste.

Thereafter, put cassava paste into a pot, add some water, then use sieve or cloth to separate solid fibers, leaving starch milk. After you get starch milk, make it precipitate for several hours, pour out upper clean water and sediment material is starch. You can use the wet starch directly or dry it in the sun and pack in bags for storage.

How to make cassava starch at home by hands

If you want to make large-scale cassava starch at home and sell it as commercial product, a complete cassava starch production line is required. Mechanical cassava starch production mainly consists of 3 sections: cleaning section, process section and drying section.

In cleaning section, dry sieve and paddle washing machine complete the cleaning of cassava raw tubers.

Then in process section, cleaned cassava is cut into small pieces and crushed into cassava mash by rasper machine. Next fiber and proteins are removed sequentially by centrifuge sieve and hydrocyclone.

Finally in drying section, peeler centrifuge and flash dryer make moisture content reduced and get dried starch powder as finished product.

How to make cassava starch at home by mechanical production

Actually, whichever way you choose, the process of cassava starch is very similar. The difference is that, mechanical cassava starch production line is well designed and connected together to achieve high automation agree. With electric cabinet and automatic control system, the whole factory can run smoothly at large capacity. So the quality of final cassava starch is higher than handmade cassava starch.

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