My Super Fancy 24.99 Blender at work
Since I enjoyed the Cashew nut milk so much, but can’t justify spending $11.99+tax a day for my fix (and I can justify almost anything), I went ahead and hit Google to see how one makes cashew milk. After extensive research at two sites, I ran to the Wegmans (a store I find oddly overwhelming and generally avoid unless I need a sushi or wine fix). I also hit Costco for a jug of cashews. I admit, I had to return something to Costco and while there happened upon the cashews while aimlessly wandering the aisles trying to figure out what exactly I needed in bulk and scooped them up. No, they are not organic. Yes, the BPC stuff is all organic. No, I don’t care. So last night I soaked the cashews and stuck them in fridge. I poured a bunch of cashews in a bowl, submerged them in hot water and left them. Tonight, I scooped up about half the bowl, threw them in my ghetto blender, added cold water, Himalayan sea salt and blended. Lo and behold…cashew milk! Some Agave nectar and a lot of cinnamon later, BAM! I had cashew milk.
A few warnings for the non-measures like me. A little Himalayan salt goes a LONG way. You really only need a pinch. Yeah, learned that the hard way. This first batch is a might bit salty… Still delicious, but salty. You also don’t need as much water as you think you do unless you want the milk to be thin. Finally, I’ve ordered myself a nut milk bag from Amazon…but I don’t have it yet. The sip I had of the milk wasn’t lumpy or clumpy, so I may not even use the bag, I don’t mind a few chunks…but to each their own. Finally, my blender is not high end. Not at all. I have toyed around with getting a Vitamix or something along those lines, but spending $400 on a blender that doesn’t clean itself or come with magical elves that will clean it for me, seems excessive. I should mention that A, the king of having to have every gadget known to man, amount of use and space be damned, has one. I will perhaps borrow it to see if it changes my life so dramatically that the money seems like a blending investment.
Good luck fellow cashew milk makers!
P.S. Here are the sites I read on Google. They actual have menus for you less adventurous types 🙂 http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2012/05/how-to-make-cashew-milk.html and http://vegetarian.about.com/od/rawfoodsrecipes/r/cashewmilk.htm
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