Homemade soy milk? $ + time ?s Maureen

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Part Scot, part Czech I guess I'm destined to be pretty frugal Not

that I don't give in to the occasional Oh look it's night & there's a

moon (hehehehe I usually use " Hey, Tuesday only comes once a week. " )

That's how I got my juicer which I love.

 

I did enter the drawing *crossing fingers* Thanks for the link

 

Thanks too for your nice words about my glass. We just moved into a

total fixer-upper and my studio aka the Basement is way low on the

list but when I get back to it I want to make some more lamps. Do you

do crafts too Maureen?

 

Peace,

Diane

 

 

, Maureen <ailanthus wrote:

>

> 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!

> >

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