Now that we are coming into the holiday season and some of you might be thinking of taking the ChufaMix away with you caravaning to the mountain, the beach, on a picnic and so on, we thought we´d take the opportunity to share this video recorded in Stockholm on November 2013 on how to clean the filter glass with a bucket of water and a … [Read more...]
Germinating seeds at home
On the 15-16 March a meeting for the exchange of local seeds was held at the Bizitoki country house hotel in the beautiful province of Baxe Nafarroa (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) which we attended with great interest. At this meeting two open workshops were held . The first was on " Sprouts" for food use and the second on the "Use of the acorn in human nutrition". In this article we want to share … [Read more...]
Grinding the rolled oats
Our friend, Maru Lekuona (from Araia, Basque Country) who is a chufamix user, has shared an interesting trick to make oats milk with ground flakes. First, we put the flakes in the chufamix filtering glass, but without water. Blend the rolled oats with the hand blender for 15 seconds approximately. After grinding, make the oats milk as you usually do. Which is the difference? That we get a … [Read more...]
Grinding the seeds at home
When we make a plant-based milk from hard seeds, such as tigernuts (chufa), we usually leave them to soak for 12 to 24 hours. If they aren´t soaked beforehand, the blender suffers a lot and may even break. Alternatively, grind the tiger nuts before placing them in the filtering glass, but be careful if using an electric coffee grinder not to break the motor! The motor can be damaged if it doesn´t … [Read more...]
Oat milk: Why is it so dense?
Many people are surprised when they make oat milk with the Chufamix . The natural milk is denser than industrial milk (which comes in brick form) and also when you heat it up, the natural version gets even thicker ... Some people ask us " Why is this? Am I doing it all wrong? ". The answer is : "NO!" Why natural oat milk is so dense : Oats, like chia and flax, contain natural fiber (mucilage) … [Read more...]
