Soy milk

[furrycute]

Anyone makes their own soy milk at home?

I'm a bit lactose intolerant, so I usually can't have milk in the morning. I recently got a good blender and have started making my own soy milk. Initially I used cheese cloth to filter out the bean paste. Now I am using a fine meshed tea strainer to filter out the bean paste. Works out pretty well. Definitely cheaper than the soy milk you buy in stores.

 

[jaxvon]

Do you sweeten yours at all? So far the best non-homemade I've tried is Silk. Is yours anything like it?

 

[furrycute]

This is the recipe I'm using. It's on the vita mix site.

If I do buy soy milk in store, I usually like to buy them in ethnic Chinese grocery stores. American branded soy milks often taste weird to me. I don't know what the added to the soy milk. Stuff like Silk just doesn't taste like soy milk.

After I made my soy milk, I usually drink it plain. If I want to sweeten it, I usually add powdered sugar or honey. Personally, I would avoid all the other stuff like vanilla extract.



Soy Milk

Yield: 3 1/2 cups (840 mL)



Step 1:
1 cup (240 mL) dry soybeans (about 2 cups/480 mL soaked)
2 quarts (1.92 L) water

Soak dry beans in water overnight. Then rinse and drain 3 times.

Step 2:
Place beans and 4 cups (.96 L) water in Vita-Mix container. Secure two-part lid. Select VARIABLE, speed #1. Turn on machine and quickly increase speed to #10; then to HIGH. Run for 2 minutes.

Step 3:
In a large covered pot, bing mixture to a boil over Medium-High heat. Watch carefully so it doesn't boil over or scorch.. When foam suddenly rises in the pot, remove from heat.

Step 4:
Strain mixture through 4 layers of cheesecloth or in a muslin bag.

Step 5:
Bring strained liquid to a boil. Stir frequently to keep from scorching. Simmer over Low heat for 15 minutes. This procedure is necessary to deactivate an enzyme which makes the protein indigestible.

 

[jeffsg4mac]

We use Silk or some of the other brands, usually the unsweetend but we get the vanilla flavored too. I won't allow cows milk in the house. I am no vegan at all, quite the opposite, but truth is truth and cows milk is about the worse thing you could let a kid drink. Don't get me started on the dairy industry. You libs think big oil is bad, well big dairy is ruining our kids health, much worse in my opinion.

 

[Sheep]

EWWWW! Soy milk is NASTY!

Once you cow, you can't go back. 1% all the way!

SheepStar

 

[furrycute]

Well, a lot of people are lactose intolerant. That means soon after we drink cow's milk, we start barfing, farting, stomach churning, etc.

So soy milk is a viable alternative. Maybe soy milk is an acquired taste. But I've been drinking soy milk on and off ever since I was a little kid, so to me it tastes perfectly fine.

I like soy milk sweetened with powdered sugar, not too sweet, but just enough to give it a touch of sweetness, and if you serve it chilled, it tastes great.

 

[masak_aer]

I tried to make my first soy bean milk, it turned into soft tofu..but still taste good...heheo

 

[furrycute]

I tried to make my first soy bean milk, it turned into soft tofu..but still taste good...heheo

Did you use adequate amount of cheesecloth for filtering? Or if you used metal strainers, are the pores in that metal mesh small enough? It took me quite a while to find a metal strainer with pores small enough to filter that ground up bean paste.




Tofu... to make tofu you need to add some potassium stuff (don't remember exactly what), don't tell you me you accidentally added that stuff to your soy milk...

 

[masak_aer]

I think it's just because it was so thick...that it turned as soft tofu, not the real tofu..It's good though.