Homemade soy milk? $ + time ?s

[Guest guest]

I'm curious about the cost comparison. I know things are usually

cheaper to do from scratch. I pay $1 for a 1 quart tetrapak of

Kikkoman Pearl (ooo I LOVE that kind!) But I always have to wait for

it to go on sale otherwise it's $2 a qt. Has anyone done a cost

breakdown on their homemade soymilk? And how time consuming is the

pot & pan method compared to a machine?

 

Thanks & Peace,

Diane

 

, Sharon Zakhour

<sharon.zakhour wrote:

>

> What good timing, Norm! :-) Now that I've gone vegan and am having

> soymilk in my daily smoothie, I have been thinking of making my own. I

> was looking at the SoyQuick soymilk maker. Is that the one you have?

> (Also you, Maureen.) I hear that homemade soymilk is much yummier than

> store-bought.

>

> I like that idea of mixing some almonds in with the soybeans, Maureen.

> I know that those makers can be used to make almond milk and rice milk,

> as well. What about oat milk?

>

> I will follow this with interest. :-)

>

> Sharon

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Diane,

 

I like the way you think The cost comparison was my rationale for

buying one, after about two years of going back and forth on it. (But I

also didn't like the taste of any of the non-dairy milks I'd made or

bought well enough to drink by themselves, so I probably would have come

up with a less practical sounding reason to buy a machine eventually,

like " Oh look, it's night and there's a moon " <guilty grin>) This was

around December, so my memory of the numbers might be a little off, but

I think it came out to about 30 or 35 cents for enough organic, locally

grown soybeans to make six cups of soy milk. Since I was paying about

$3 for a half gallon of Organic Valley soy milk, that seemed pretty

cool. If my morning math is right, the organic almonds and vanilla

extract add about another 65 cents, making it between 95 cents and $1.00

per 6-cup batch.

 

The instructions for making soy milk by hand always scared me off, and

it's been maybe two years since I tried making nut or grain milks so my

memory of the processes is pretty fuzzy, but the only time-consuming

part with a machine is the cleaning, which isn't awful (at least not

yet--I may feel differently in a year. It takes around 15 minutes to

clean the machine.). Otherwise, it's about as labor intensive as using

an electric coffee-maker (But we do all the sterilizing of pitchers

in a microwave, so that's another variable, I guess.)

 

Hope this is useful :^) You can always do what I did and enter the

Soyquick soy milk maker drawing

(http://www.soymilkquick.com/win-a-soymilk-maker.html) while you think

it over :^)

 

Peace,

Maureen

 

PS I was looking through this group's photos the other day. Diane,

your stained glass work is so stunningly beautiful!

>

>

[Guest guest]

Diane,

I use about 2 oz. of the dry beans (weight before soaking) for each

40 oz. of soy milk.

I add 1 T. orange or tangerine zest into the grinder along with the

beans. Once the soymilk maker finishes the process I add 1/4 t.

salt, 2 packets of Splenda, 2 400 mg tablets of vitamin D, 2 1250 mg

tablets of calcium carbonate,and 1 T. walnut oil; (I pulverize the

tablets with a mortar and pestle before adding). Depending on what

you pay for 1 Lb. of soybeans, the bean cost for 40 oz. of Soymilk

will be the whatever the price of the 1 Lb. of soybeans cost you,

divided by 8. i.e. if your soymilk maker makes the equivalent amount

of soy milk from the equivalent amount of beans.

P.S. Today, I tried to thicken the soy milk by pouring some of the

freshly made soymilk into a pot, heating it on the stove, then adding

and stirring tapioca flour into it. The tapioca clotted into lumps,

so I'll try something else next time. The soy milk wasn't ruined, as

I filtered the lumps out.

 

Norm

 

, " strayfeather1 "

<otherbox2001 wrote:

>

> I'm curious about the cost comparison. I know things are usually

> cheaper to do from scratch. I pay $1 for a 1 quart tetrapak of

> Kikkoman Pearl (ooo I LOVE that kind!) But I always have to wait for

> it to go on sale otherwise it's $2 a qt. Has anyone done a cost

> breakdown on their homemade soymilk? And how time consuming is the

> pot & pan method compared to a machine?

>

> Thanks & Peace,

> Diane