Today I’ll be sharing with you a simple but really useful tip we’ve learned after years of research on the history of homemade plant milks; one that has been used for centuries around the world in order to make the most of homemade plant milks. The trick is to blend the same ingredients twice, changing the water used in order to get more plant milk. It’s really simple, but you can see it better … [Read more...]
Use and maintenance of the filter
The filter from Vegan Milker is the heart of this great tool. Taking care of it will allow us to enjoy Vegan Milker for a long, long while, since Chufamix is designed to last for a lifetime. Here are some instructions to take good care of it: 1-FILTERING When there is a lot of pulp, and it fills more than half of the filter glass, most of the mesh will be blocked. When this occurs, we … [Read more...]
Tips to heat homemade plant milks without stripping them from their nutrients
Have you ever experimented heating homemade plant milk? Were the results surprising? We've had some "weird" phenomena happen to us after having heated our homemade concoctions, so I decided to write this article in order to share everything I've learnt so far with you, from personal experience and also from your lovely suggestions. When we're talking main differences between storebought milk … [Read more...]
Preserving homemade plant milks at home
Given that homemade plant milks aren’t sterilised, pasteurised or homogenised, they usually don’t last as much as their pre-packaged counterparts. One of the latter can travel in 30ºC heat and still last in a store shelf for 2 years. This wouldn’t happen with the more natural version (as it’s the case with basically all kind of fresh ingredients), so it’s necessary to take extra measures to ensure … [Read more...]
“Express” filtering with Chufamix – Video tip
When we make plant milk using nuts, tigernuts or soya, the Vegan Milker filter fills up with pulp. The same thing happens with some juices which have a lot of pulp, like grape juice. In these cases, before putting in the mortar for the final pressing, we stir the pulp with a wooden spoon in order to make the sieving process easier. Today’s tip substitutes the use of the wooden spoon. We got this … [Read more...]
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