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Ellen vs. Homemade Soy Milk - part 2

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The soy milk experiment was a success!! From 577 grams of soy beans ($2 worth), I made ONE GALLON of delicious milk!








Here's what happened today:

Turning the beans into a foamy paste: Moderately Easy

I drained the soaking beans and put them in the processor with some water. What made this slightly harder than totally easy is that 1) I have a four cup food processor so I had to do it in lots of batches and 2) I didn't process the first couple of batches long enough so I had to repeat the processing. The goal with this is to make it thick and foamy.


Boiling the soy bean mixture: Easy But Incredibly Messy
I added the thick foamy mixture to some pre-heated water. Even after splitting it into four different pots, it still tried to overflow.


Separating the Soy Milk from the Okara: Easy but HOT
After 20 minutes, it was time to separate the soy milk from the fibrous bean part, called okara. This is done by pouring the whole mixture into a cotton muslin bag and then squeezing the bag to get all of the soy milk out of the okara.


If you are using regular plastic kitchen gloves to do this, I would recommend putting on liners underneath the gloves.




And that is it! We have soy milk. Now to make the tofu...





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  1. AnonymousOctober 22, 2011 at 4:08 PM

    Nice going!

    So...is soy ice cream next? You know, to alongside the sticky toffee pudding and all...

    - O

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  2. JonathanOctober 23, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    Vegan Sticky Toffee Pudding might not be as tasty as the original "pound of butter and a gallon of heavy cream" version, but we might just have to give it a try...

    http://theveganronin.blogspot.com/2008/04/sticky-toffee-pudding.html

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  3. AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 9:16 PM

    That's awesome;P

    Kara

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