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We get milk at 2-3 bucks a litre. Beans are ~4 bucks a kg. Which I think makes about 6 litres. So 4 becomes about 20 bucks.
The machine is 500 bucks. Hmm about 33 litres to break even. Probably around one year of milk.
Ignoring any improvements in taste and the lack of annoying running out of milk and bulky shopping trips.
Hmm. Not terrible for a luxury item. What do you do with the okara?
Also does that self cleaning thing make veggie juice? it says fruit, unsure if veggies are too pulpy.
For milk it’s more 60g per litre so you’d have 15-20 litres per kg of beans - more than that and it’s very thick.
We leave the okara inside often when cooking but otherwise we filter it out with a cheese cloth on the side - but it’s drinkable unfiltered just a bit grainy. And we just compost it when we do throw it away.
Tbh we only use it to make nut milks and soy milk, but I’ve made soup once or twice with it. I don’t think it’s its best use however.
I… bought one XD
That’s amazing lol if you’re anything like us you will cherish it every day.
It’s amazing waking up to hot, fresh soymilk.
I have a soy milk maker (Soyajoy, circa 2001), though I haven’t used it in many years. But when I did, I would save the okara and make it into little “meatballs”. I cannot remember the recipe (though I think arrowroot was a key ingredient) but I am pretty sure it came from Bill Shurtleff’s “Book of Tofu”.