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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