SoyQuick Review: Make your own soy milk for pennies a day
If you take a look to the right, you’ll notice there’s an ad for Soy Quick’s products including the the revolutionary Soy Quick Milk machine. Click that ad to check out their products, but before you do, read my first experience with making my own soymilk from dried soy beans.
It is a very easy task. When you purchase the machines, they not only come with printed instructions, but even better a DVD. I decided the old school way was going to be less fun, so I gave that a shot. The instructions were simple and flawless. Soak your beans for 8-10 hours, fill the water jug, put the soybeans where they go and hit start. Around 10 minutes later, you are set. Now, you need to cool your milk, unless you like it HOT!
The process was much easier than I imagined. I will give you some hints. Add some flavorings like vanilla, cinnamon or brown sugar, cane syrup, almond, or even whole almonds or coffee beans into the water or beans and it will taste even better. Take a look at your store-bought soy milk and see what is used.
The machine now and again makes a strange noise. Watch the short video clips I took here and here to see what I’m talking about. There are a bunch of pictures here of the machine and process, so you need to look at those also.
The taste is interesting. I expected the milk to taste like store-bought soy milk. That creamy sugary smooth milky consistency and all that. Well, it was, except the milk was much nuttier. I am going to try this next time, so write this down… Drain the soy milk from the jug into a coffee filter so it strains out some of the crushed bean shells. The nutty flavor wasn’t bad, it was just unexpected. After drinking the milk all week, i decided it was much better tasting than store-bought. It is sort of tedious to clean up too. You need to scrub it down, but in the end it is worth it. Use some gloves also, cause the machine can get hot, that’s for sure.
You can also purchase juicers and tofu makers from the ad below or to the right. That’s next, i LOVE tofu so I’d love to make my own. The overall savings by making your own milk is crazy. It’s totally worth buying one! Maybe I will make some different combinations of flavors. That would be fun and unique.
1 Comment
K
December 23, 2008 at 6:15 am
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…