Hello everyone this is @nemzy. I'm a newbie and this is my first time to post on this "we are alive community."
I'm here to share my experience on garri making.
Yesterday my friend who's also my Pastor's wife requested my assistance to fry garri.
She'd already done the harvesting of cassava, peeling, grinding and pressing to dry.
I came into the picture in seiving it to separate the main flour from the chaff.
Unfortunately I didn't go there with my phone to have gotten the picture of seiving but I'm glad I remembered to ask her to snap me while I was frying.
Frying of garri is very tedious due to the heat from the fire and the smoke. You can see me covering my eyes in one the pictures because of the smoke that entered my eyes.
It's been more than 25 years since I fried garri last.I was glad I was still able to do it and it came out well despite my length of years.
I finished and indeed my friend and the husband were really happy I came to help as there was none to do the frying for them
You can see me here , I have set up the fire, garri in my place is fried with fire wood. Because of rainy season, it's really catching fire but I managed it until I finished frying the garri.
The work is almost done here, the garri must be fried until it's very dry before taking it out and putting another set until the whole seived garri flour is fried dry.
I really regret not going there with my phone as I would've taken enough pictures for this post and my friend's phone was off due to low battery.
In conclusion I'm so glad I helped out.
Frying your own garri is very economical and healthy too because you'll do it very well and there'll be no sand compared to the other commercial garri sold in the market.
And of course this homemade garri is very expensive if you want to buy.