Tea is a very healthy drink. Teas and infusions are often taken for breakfast, meals, at tea time... we take them for pleasure or for medical purposes such as to help digestion, to sleep, to heal the flu... Why not include them in our homemade vegan milks? Obtain a natural and healthy milk easily. Preparation Methods Traditional method: First you have to heat up water in a pot (1 … [Read more...]
How to clean the filter anywhere
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...]
