Comments on: SoyQuick Review: Make your own soy milk for pennies a day http://www.leafygreen.info/beverage-reviews/homemade-soy-milk/ green reviews. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:30:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: K http://www.leafygreen.info/beverage-reviews/homemade-soy-milk/comment-page-1/#comment-1838 K Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:15:33 +0000 http://www.m1k3k.com/leafygreen/?p=43#comment-1838 The nutty/beany taste is drastically reduced if you simply spend a couple of minutes rubbing the soaked beans in their soaking water - the skins float to the top and are easily picked out. You'll get the majority of them that way. Alternatively, you can spend 30 mins or so popping each bean out of its skin (dead easy, and how long is the average tv programme?). I never found the cleaning up tedious: I'd immediately empty out the filter basket (you can use the okara in burgers), fill the jug with water, and pop the heater and filter in there to soak until I was ready to get to them - after that they'd cooled down considerably and it took a couple of minutes to scrub them down. The SoyQuick 930P (Premium) is much easier to clean, as it has no filter basket, and it allows you to make much thicker, creamier soymilk (1 cup of dried soybeans + 3 tbsp oatmeal = really gorgeous soymilk); it also means you can use grains more often because there's no filter to clog up. I'm keeping my old SoyQuick SDZ, though, as making a pound of tofu takes 3 batches of soymilk, and you really don't have to bother with the skins when you're using the beans to make tofu. Having 2 machines on the go at once will make it much quicker, especially when I only have to bother with one filter cup... The nutty/beany taste is drastically reduced if you simply spend a couple of minutes rubbing the soaked beans in their soaking water – the skins float to the top and are easily picked out. You'll get the majority of them that way. Alternatively, you can spend 30 mins or so popping each bean out of its skin (dead easy, and how long is the average tv programme?). I never found the cleaning up tedious: I'd immediately empty out the filter basket (you can use the okara in burgers), fill the jug with water, and pop the heater and filter in there to soak until I was ready to get to them – after that they'd cooled down considerably and it took a couple of minutes to scrub them down.

The SoyQuick 930P (Premium) is much easier to clean, as it has no filter basket, and it allows you to make much thicker, creamier soymilk (1 cup of dried soybeans + 3 tbsp oatmeal = really gorgeous soymilk); it also means you can use grains more often because there's no filter to clog up.

I'm keeping my old SoyQuick SDZ, though, as making a pound of tofu takes 3 batches of soymilk, and you really don't have to bother with the skins when you're using the beans to make tofu. Having 2 machines on the go at once will make it much quicker, especially when I only have to bother with one filter cup…

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