4 star rating February 22, 2007 Debra B.
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our experience with home soy milk maker

I live in a very eco freindly house, and in assessing our impact latly, I noticed we use ALOT of soymilk ( I have 3 kids), which means ALOT of packaging. Yes, it's supposedly recycled, but these asceptic packages are very energy and petroleum product intensive. In researching it, I decided to try a home soymilk maker, we've had it for a week.

Well, it is quick and easy to use. It will save alot of packaging, and money. The taste is not the same as what we where buying, but I have not been adding any sweetener or vanilla, and 3 out of 4 of us think the taste is ok and the 4th household member wont eat it on her cereal yet, Im hoping she'll get used to it. We normally bought unsweetened soymilk at the store.

We used the tofu mold twice. The tofu tastes great ! And, it is very easy to make. Of course, 1 1/2 quarts of soymilk (1 batch from the maker) does not make a very big tofu (most of the soymilk volume goes to whey). I would say it is a 2 person serving, so we would need 2 batches of it for dinner for my family.

The part I am finding hard is cleaning the filter screen. I am going to try and work on this one. Because this is a very eco freindly off the grid type house, we dont always have alot of hot water at the tap. It must be cleaned immediatelly with very hot sudsy water scrubbed thru the screen, because the screen holes are so small and the soybean pulp will clog it if it dries in it (then you have to boil it, like I had to once.) I didnt realize this a was washing it with lukewarm water which caused the pulp to dry in the holes.

Debra's keywords: food, trash reduction, soymilk, save money

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