We have decided to write this article offering ideas of healthy breakfasts for kids. We have 2 main reasons. 1- On one hand, we want to answer your questions asking for advice on how to adapt homemade vegetable milks to children's palate. 2- The second reason is to...
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Do you want to improve the team that you and Vegan Milker by ChufaMix make? Learn simple tricks to improve the plants milks you make with your Vegan Milker.
Vegan Milker by ChufaMix is a simple and versatile tool that allows you to make any vegan milk in 5 minutes.
But do you know its full potential? Would you like to optimize your Vegan Milker experience even more?
In this section you will find practical tips on how to use and clean the Vegan Milker. Also simple nutritional tips to get the most out of your homemade plant milks. We talk about the basics of how to preserve natural plant milks, how to sweeten them, how to control their thickness, and much more. We hope you find it useful!
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The best Vegan Milker disc for your recipe
Here are some recommendations on the use of the Vegan Milker disc. We hope to answer your questions about which is disc the best disc for each recipe.As you will see below, the issue is quite simple. The larger the diameter of the hole in the disc, the more...
Trick: 3 liters of milk in 1 minute
Thanks to your great ideas we have discovered a trick to make up to 3 liters of milk in 1 minute. You are truly great! We can't explain how we didn't think of this before? To make 3 liters at once, simply replace the Vegan Milker container with a casserole vessel,...
How to make coffee with Vegan Milker
A new coffee dimension dawns for expert baristas and coffee lovers with Vegan Milker® thanks to its innovative extraction method. Vegan Milker’s patented emulsion system allows whole coffee beans to be ground, filtered and emulsified in a single process. We can use...
Natural flavorings to improve plant milks
Unlike homemade nut milks that are a delight, cereal plant milks such as rice or oat milk can be flat or bland. It happens especially to people who are already accustomed to the taste of packaged plant milk. But this is not a problem for Vegan Milker because its...
Strengthen defenses with milk and juices
Keeping your immune system strong is an excellent remedy to prevent all kinds of diseases. Doing so is easy, it's free and it can also be enjoyable. The immune system is strengthened in a natural and effective way if we take care of basic daily habits such as sleeping...
HOW TO MAKE NATURAL EDIBLE COSMETICS WITH PULPS?
Here are some ideas to make edible cosmetics using plant milk pulps. We hope you like these simple recipes as one more way to recycle the pulp of homemade plant milk into homemade cosmetics. They are easy tips to take care of your skin in a healthy and natural way. Do...
Plant-based milks that help regulate cholesterol
Excess cholesterol is an increasingly widespread problem at all ages. Regulating our body's cholesterol level is directly related to healthy lifestyle habits, such as exercising and maintaining a varied diet rich in quality fats and proteins. Homemade plant milks are...
Top 7 protein-rich plant milks
Would you like to know which are top 7 protein rich plant milks? Let's see! Homemade plant milks are a great source of protein, but do we truly know which one is the highest in protein? I wanted to clear things up so I crafted this short article in order to show you...
Shedding some light on Vegan Milker’s new filter
Have you recently acquired a Vegan Milker and you find the filter to be somewhat faulty? Stay calm, because there’s nothing wrong with your Vegan Milker. Keep on reading to find out why the new filter looks like that! To solve all the questions regarding the new...
The best vegan milk to use in coffee
Discovering what’s the best milk to put in your coffee is probably the hardest experiment that I’ve ever carried out. The main reason being: not all milks suit all tastes out there. Obviously, there are a lot of things to factor: do we prefer darker coffee or a...
Protect your skin from the sun with the help of Vitamin E rich plant milk
Does vitamin E help protect your skin from the sun? Can vitamin E be found in plant milk? Sunlight exposure has a beneficial effect on human health, since it promotes endogenous vitamin D production, which at the same time, aids in the production process for calcium....
How to get an extra 1/2 liter of plant milk with a “Second Extraction”
Today I’ll be sharing with you a simple but really useful tip we’ve learned after years of research on the history of homemade plant milks; one that has been used for centuries around the world in order to make the most of homemade plant milks. The trick is to blend...
Golden Milk
Golden milk is an ancient drink which is lovely to have during autumn. This fabulous recipe was shared by our Chufamix friend Briguitte Andreae a few months ago, since it’s a brilliant remedy for those cases of winter blues. It’s all about making a lovely, aromatic...
Use and maintenance of the filter
The filter from Vegan Milker is the heart of this great tool. Taking care of it will allow us to enjoy Vegan Milker for a long, long while, since Chufamix is designed to last for a lifetime. Here are some instructions to take good care of it: 1-FILTERING When there is...
Tips to heat homemade plant milks without stripping them from their nutrients
Have you ever experimented heating homemade plant milk? Were the results surprising? We've had some "weird" phenomena happen to us after having heated our homemade concoctions, so I decided to write this article in order to share everything I've learnt so far with...
Pregnancy & Homemade Plant Milk: a Basic Guide.
Seeing that lots of you asked us about the best milk to drink during pregnancy, we decided to create this little guide. Here you’ll find some interesting options which will supply you with lots of very well needed nutrients during the pregnancy period, as well as a...
Top 5 Calcium-Rich Vegan Milks
Drinking plant milks frequently doesn’t have to Clash with maintaining good calcium levels. You only need to know which ones are the richest in this important mineral, and then making your milk using those seeds! Said seeds can also be used as an extra ingredient to...
Homemade tigernut milk vs storebought: A scientific study on nutritional differences
Here in ChufaMix, we’ve been long looking around the web to find some kind of scientific studies on the differences between both homemade and store-bought plant milks, mainly related to their nutritional properties. Hard to believe that, as different as both drinks...
Preserving homemade plant milks at home
Given that homemade plant milks aren’t sterilised, pasteurised or homogenised, they usually don’t last as much as their pre-packaged counterparts. One of the latter can travel in 30ºC heat and still last in a store shelf for 2 years. This wouldn’t happen with the more...
Petition to make the terms “plant milk” legal – Europe responds
Over a year ago, we published a post explaining how wrong it seemt that actually using the words “plant milk” in Europe was now illegal. Can you remember? We actually started an oficial petition requesting that, just as it happens in USA, Asia and South America, it...
Tricks: easy pulp pressing
Little by little and thanks to the participation of the Vegan Milker community we are collecting tricks to make pulp pressing easier. Whether they are regular Vegan Milker users or people who come to our stand casually at a fair, their ideas enlighten us, they are...
The strength of the small
For 60 years we have been living together with the industrial farming model. The argument that has justified its development has always been closely linked to one supposed objective: “To produce enough food to wipe out hunger in the world”. However, the facts show...
How to make green juices with Chufamix
To make green or “detox” juice the ingredients must include one of the following vegetables: spinach, lettuce, chard, broccoli, celery, parsley, nettles...All of these have a high chlorophyll content, which gives us the antioxidants we need to neutralise the effect of...
Good tips from chufamixers
We are always receiving all kinds of Chufamix questions, proposals and even advice in our blog. This means that every day we learn and investigate a little bit more about the infinite world of plant milks and how to use the Chufamix to prepare them. Today we are going...
Tips for making nutritious vegan milk with Aloe Vera
Would you like to make more nutritious vegan milk? We have an easy solution! This recipe came about after reading “The Great Aloe Book” by Alessandro Bassetti and Stefano Sala (Edizioni zuccari, 2007) which is about the history, botany and pharmacological aspects of...
DOES ALMOND MILK CAUSE SCURVY?
It is possible that you have read a number of articles published over the last few days in the most important media outlets in the USA, the UK, Italy, Spain and France, regarding a study carried out in Hospital de la Fe, in Valencia (Spain). This “scientific...
Thermomix & Chufamix: How to improve homemade vegan milk
Thanks to the experience of “chufamixers” who have a Thermomix at home, we have discovered that the Thermomix and the Chufamix make a perfect team when it comes to making vegan milks. We had already noticed this in some fairs and we even did a few tests at the...
Differences between “Homemade” and “Pre-packaged” Vegan Milks
We wanted to share this with you because we´ve realised that there has been some confusion between pre-packaged and homemade vegan milks and people who believe that they´re nutritionally equal. This is not the case an alony with the price difference and environmental...
How to calcify homemade vegan milk
When people start following a vegan or vegetarian diet they are concerned about some nutrients as calcium or protein. But dairy free options are rich in this nutrients if you know how to keep them. Some people whose prefer lactose free options ask us about how to...
“The jumpy” of Chufamix
Hi friends, we want to share with you an interesting little new trick that we´ve named “the jumpy”. When you are blending the ingredients with the water using Chufamix, sometimes in the deeper part of the container you may see a little quantity of water which is not...
Prohibition of the “Plant milks”
The European Community has forbidden the use of the word “milk” to name “plant milks”, only milks from animals can be named “milk” (Council Regulation EU 1308/2013). They say that the term “plant milk” confuses consumers. Is the illegalization of the term “plant milk”...
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