A quality kitchen appliance will change your life. Everyone and their mother
has a story about the Cuisinart they got for going to the trouble of getting
married. And, if the thought of making peanut butter at home excites you (think
Champion juicer), you will be pleasantly surprised by this soy and nut milk
maker.
We’ve made a number of batches of soy, almond, and rice milk in about fifteen
minutes with this sturdy stainless steel machine. Our favorite is a mix of almond
and soy, with a little bit of honey, salt and cinnamon for flavor. Although the
machine makes milk with dried beans, we suggest soaking them for six hours.
Clean-up is much easier than most juicers; it even comes with a little
toothbrush-like device to scrub the filter.
For cost conscious health nuts, the distributor notes that you can make a
gallon of soy milk for fifty cents, compared to between five and ten dollars to
buy commercial varieties. If you drank half a gallon of soy milk a week, it would
take about three months for you to start saving money with the machine. For
the environmentally concerned among us, think of all the packaging you could
save this way. You can even make tofu with the addition of cheesecloth and a
vegetarian coagulant like nigari.
While we don’t recommend buying a machine for everything (Yes, we bought
that infomercial food dehydrator.), this is a good product for anyone who can’t
get enough of that sweet soy goodness.
has a story about the Cuisinart they got for going to the trouble of getting
married. And, if the thought of making peanut butter at home excites you (think
Champion juicer), you will be pleasantly surprised by this soy and nut milk
maker.
We’ve made a number of batches of soy, almond, and rice milk in about fifteen
minutes with this sturdy stainless steel machine. Our favorite is a mix of almond
and soy, with a little bit of honey, salt and cinnamon for flavor. Although the
machine makes milk with dried beans, we suggest soaking them for six hours.
Clean-up is much easier than most juicers; it even comes with a little
toothbrush-like device to scrub the filter.
For cost conscious health nuts, the distributor notes that you can make a
gallon of soy milk for fifty cents, compared to between five and ten dollars to
buy commercial varieties. If you drank half a gallon of soy milk a week, it would
take about three months for you to start saving money with the machine. For
the environmentally concerned among us, think of all the packaging you could
save this way. You can even make tofu with the addition of cheesecloth and a
vegetarian coagulant like nigari.
While we don’t recommend buying a machine for everything (Yes, we bought
that infomercial food dehydrator.), this is a good product for anyone who can’t
get enough of that sweet soy goodness.
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