We Got Enough Noni For Juicing 👃 & Our New Low-Tech Home Water Filter 🚰
We finally scored enough noni fruits to make it worth my time to juice them, and the sweet smell of stink has filled our house.
👃 Nobody Likes Noni 🧦🧀🍍
Well, I like noni, but it's not for the faint of heart, and I would dare say it's an acquired taste. The fruit is magical, you only need to pick, let it ripen in the sun, and when the fruits become translucent and soft, it's time to toss em' in a jar and let them juice themselves. The weight of the fruit helps with compression, and mother nature makes noni juice for me to strain and collect.
Above are fruits not quite ready for fermentation. Sometimes fruits picked too early won't ripen properly, and they most often turn black and harden. When this happens they generally don't produce much juice, so I save them to collect the seeds for planting or just toss them in the compost pile.
The properties of these little stink grenades are incredible. The juice is chocked full of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, and when we used to somewhat commercially make and sell it years ago, bodybuilders and weightlifters were among our most loyal buyers. The leaves of the noni tree are elso edible, and give a dish a kind of fishy flavor. Here in Cambodia, they are an important ingredient in Amok, a curry which is basically the national dish of Cambodia.
No More Changing Water Tanks 🪴
That's a glorified flower pot in there, a low-tech simple solution to water filtration, and in principle this filter is much like the much smaller ceramic filters I used to use when mountaineering and backpacking. Things like pesticides, chemicals, and several pathogens are not taken care of with this kind of filtration, but as we are high in the mountains, the water from the creek is pretty safe, and only needs some sediment removed.
I wish plastic wasn't the material holding the filtered water, but plastic is king in Cambodia, and after months of searching I didn't see any glass jar style options. Either way, it was only $38, and considering a 20-liter water jug costs $0.87 USD to exchange, this thing will pay for itself after 44 uses (it's also 20 liters when filled and filtered one time.
After inspecting the pot for damage or cracks, I began cleaning all the plastic bits, and then soaked the pot and brushed it several times to remove any loose clay bits. If it turns out to be a helpful addition to our kitchen, we'll buy another one for our guest cabin.
My only complaint is that the spigot is nearly 4-5cm from the bottom of lower catchment tank. This means that even though it can hold 20 liters, 2 or 3 liters can't be accessed without precariously tilting an easily breakable thing, so hopefully they'll wise up in the future and drill the hole a little lower.
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Hello dear brother how are you?
Nobody like Noni but I do.
Okay, I will save some noni juice for you sister.
First time i see this plant sir. Or maybe i rarely use it that's why don't have any knowledge about it.
It grows all over Thailand just like here in Cambodia, but it's no longer used like it was in the 1990s. Cambodians only use the leaves in a traditional curry, so the fruit is a nice (usually) free product that we can score.
Noni in Indonesia is Pace. Indonesian people usually eat Pace or Noni with rujak bebek. Rujak bebek is a kind of young fruits salad that is punched. With red coconut sugar and little salt with hot chillies.
Rujak bebek seller
Rujak bebek with noni seed
Very cool, I have never seen noni used in any street snacks here in Cambodia. That rujak looks delicious, and I particularly love pomegranate seeds too.
Yes, in Indonesia, the fruit is called Noni, it has a lot of health benefits. but because the smell is very bad, it's okay but for me not to like this one fruit. And I salute those of you who like to drink juice from that fruit, my friend 👍👍
It is full amino acids, and even many of those who dislike it won't deny its health benefits. The smell is bad, I agree, but somehow it has grown on me, and I now like the smell/stench of fermenting noni fruit. Also, fermentation produces no alcohol because noni has almost no sugar, and I don't drink alcohol, so it's a nice non-alcoholic treat that still has a strong kick.
OMG You are the first person since I left Far North QLD (Daintree rainforest/Cairns area) that has ever mentioned Noni juice since!
And yes, not only do I remember the stink, but the rancid taste aswell, as my ex- who is from the Cook Islands, convinced me to drink a capful every morning for good health.
We also used to pick the Cheesefruit from the tree and let the sun leech the juices out in a glass jar until eventually we ran out and got some more from the trees...
I sort of miss it...🤣😱😳🤣
But I don't rememember if we ever used the leaves for cooking- he did most of the cooking- sensational traditional Polynesian dishes, so maybe he did use it...maybe not.
Also love the filtration system. AND I love the fact that you have a guest house! For me too??? 😃
I remember the first time an Aussie recognized this fruit in Cambodia, and I must admit I prefer the Australian name as it's much more accurate. I had always described the taste of noni as gym socks, pineapple, and blue cheese, and when I heard the name "cheesefruit," it felt so appropriate.
The leaves have a similar-ish smell when being cooked, and it only takes a few of the leaves to give a dish a hard to explain fishy-stinky kick. The guest cabin is coming along well, and I regret we don't have the financial means to call it our home. We'll have to rent it out for at least a few years to put a dent in the partial loan it took to buy this property. Right now I'm trying to decide if Cambodian and foreign guests will be able to handle the thought of a composting toilet.....
Lol...we can composting toilets over here a 'long drop'...we Aussies- well many of us anyway are used to roughing it, after all, where there is a tree...🤣
Yeah...still can't think if I ever ate the leaves in anything, but you're right- that smell certainly can't be mistaken for anything else.
Well I would love to be one of your paying guests one day...Might have to be next year, but who knows what will happen between now and then anyway!
But please Book me in!
Don't worry, we'd immediately kick out any non-Hive guests in exchange for some Hive homies 😅. Of course just kidding, but you're more than welcome here should you ever venture to Cambodia. By the time you're ready to come, the easiest and fastest way will be by way of Bangkok, take a bus to Trat and we'll pick you up at the border, only a half-hour drive. For now the border near us is for Thai-Cambodian crossings only, but by October will be a fully functional crossing capable of issuing visas, etc.
I do want to convert to composting toilets, just trying to imagine the look on a Cambodian's face when I explain how to take a little lime and rice husks to scatter over their doo-doo.
I'm in- especially since you mentioned Thailand and composting toilets!🤣
(well, Thailand anyway...)
And I will need to find a legit animal sanctuary to volunteer in too while I'm there.
Well we are right smack dab in the middle of Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, so there ya' go. It's also known as the Ecstacy Forest, do a quick google search and you'll find a documentary about this place, apparently a nearly extinct local tree is the key ingredient in MDMA, so this Cambodian forest has been fueling a black market industry to help Europeans dance like idiots since the late 1990s.
WOW and wow!
Hmmm.... a seed has been planted...
Well we have accommodation for you if you ever come, and my full-time job is Hive, and this gives me the freedom to give my time to anyone that stops by without warning. You could be our first Hive visitor 😁.
And we could all gain multiple stories together for hive too! lol...
I could be your first hive homie there, but I hope not. I hope others can get there before I can- which sadly probably won't be till next year...
But I am ABSOLUTELY, DEFINITELY UNDOUBTEDLY COMING! 😃
Yey for the water filter! I'm s happy you found this incredibly simple solution! I know, those carboys (is that what you'd call a 20 liter bottle?) are everywhere in Latin America too, and even though they are diligently reused and recycled, being plastic they only last that long. Plus they have their cost! Fortunately resourceful people make use of the simplest filter: a terracotta jar!
As for the fitting contraption, I've seen people make stands out of wood and/or iron to give the clay jar (sometimes two of them) a firm and protected place, with a removable tank on the bottom, so you never need to tilt the whole thing. Though I bet, it always started out like yours... until the plastic gave way to something more permanent.
Goodbye carboy and hello $5 to $10 in savings per month. You're right, if I was the designer, about the only part I'd keep is the lid and ceramic pot/filter. Otherwise, like you mentioned, something built out of wood, steel, or glass would be a more aesthetic and longlasting alternative to the cheap plastic housing the filter.
Yulk 🤪🤪🤪 but then the amount of benefit these little disgusting fruit carry is marvelous though.
The filter system looks pretty darn cool!
I have seen some people run when they give the jar a whiff, but the smell has grown on me through the years. I am still running batches of water through the filter to get it ready for use. The manufacturer suggested to filter 60 liters before consuming water from the tank.