How to make soy milk at home - Soyabella demo and review 

I make my own soy milk, no special equipment, a blender, a large pot and a strainer. I use Mary’s test Kitchen recipe ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wDdzSr7RqC8.html , however, I’m interested in making cheese from the okara, so I am going to switch to a method that cooks the pulp into the milk before sieving, much like your machine does...

I use a SoyJoy maker which calls for 1 cup soy beans.I use Laura beans ordered direct from the farm.(Laura beans have the mildest taste)and after I soak, I drain and keep moist to start sprouting for one day where only a tiny bump reveals the beans are preparing to grow. I use purchased natto I keep in the freezer to mix into the okara,then I seal the mix and put in my dehydrator at 110 degrees for 2 days. It turns out not slimy or stringy like the beans I mixed in,but the smell is the same,and I found after it is in the frig for a day or so, it is easy to eat. I also keep a small strainer of keffer(approximately 60 strains of bacteria vs about 6 strains in yogurt) in the freezer which I ferment the soy milk and okara with. I use the fermented keffer milk in my coffee and the okara in my morning oatmeal with fruit,cinnamon and cloves. Your use of cashews and how you make the cheese spreads is a fabulous idea!!!! I have also layered my keffer cheese okara (mixed with roasted garlic and onion paste) into a vegan lasagna with other layers of roasted zucchini and eggplant.

Yes, fermented okara in a lasagna sounds delicious! I will have to try making natto too. Does the kefir not curdle in your coffee?

Just bought the Soyabella. Can you tell me if you've made one batch - as shown - and then gone immediately to make a second full batch without washing in between? I have an instant pot as well, but I'd like to see if a double batch can be made with the Soyabella in case I'm pressed for time. Thanks.

Hm. First attempt was gritty. I sieved the result first. Still gritty. Will try again tomorrow and put the result through a nut milk bag rather than just a strainer. Don't quite know what happened there as a nut milk bag is supposed not necessary.

You're very welcome Rei, I am glad that was helpful! Yes, it's very important to clean the machine and the milk screen straight away, that way it's fairly quick and easy 🙂

Thank you so much for your lovely comment, I am glad my videos are helpful 🙂

Thank you Carol, that might be helpful for some people 🙂 I have the times listed in the description under TIME STAMPS too.

Great video. It would be useful for the demo to be at the start as many people want to see that the time to make it and effort involved is worth it when comparing it with the cost and ease of buying it from a shop.

I am yet to try the rice milk but the soy milk is so easy with it, I love it! And a pinch of salt should definitely get rid of the beany taste, it works great for me 👍

That's great, I hope you'll enjoy your machine 🙂

Thanks. I think you're better adding dates or raisins into a complete soy milk, blend in a blender and then sive it, as there would not be enough space in the filter to add them with the soy beans.

Thank you for the lovely comment. No, the tofu mould I am using is Tofuture.

The only two ways I found to make it taste less beany is to peel soy bean skins after they soak and to add a pinch of salt to the water in the Soyabella jug before making soy milk. And once you cool it in the fridge, the taste gets milder too.

Hi, so the little plastic cup holds 1/2 of a regular measuring cup (125ml), and I just weighed the soy beans for you and got 93g 🙂

Thanks for checking for me! I went ahead did more research on amounts and all and yesterday I made tofu...! I am updating this comment to put in the MAIN reason I will not use the Soyabella for cooking soymilk again -- and that is the (maddening) plastic sectioned piece that goes inside the pot for the motor with it's gear attachment to rest in. Maddening because it is hard to get it "just right" to close the lid -- but a deal breaker once I woke up and realized I would be cooking my organic soymilk in PLASTIC! Heat causes plastic to release some of its toxicity and I'm just not going to do that again. I'm not sorry I bought the machine because of the many lessons learned, however. I wrote a long post here and lost it due to computer glitch so now I will make my comment very short and succinct: I discovered that my Soyabella was undercooking the soymilk. Even with some burning on the bottom of the pot after doing three batches -- (I had soaked 300 grams or 1 2/3 U.S. cups of dried organic soybeans and divided into 3 batches) -- I did not trust that the soymilk was properly cooked and poured it all into a large stockpot to boil and cool to the temperature needed to add the coagulant. For this triple batch I ended up using 2 tablespoons of organic gypsum also called calcium sulfate which was in a fine powder and that I mixed with 1/2 cup (118 ml) near-boiling water and stirred a bit before adding to the cooked hot soymilk. The tofu came out wonderfully, but I am done with the Soyabealla, because even using it for raw soaked soybeans it is not extracting enough of the goodness in the beans in my opinion. From here on I will be back to pulverizing the soaked soybeans in my high-speed blender, then straining and then pouring the soymilk into the stockpot. I had been confused before on just how to cook the soymilk and maybe I'm mistaken, but it appears that as long as I boil the soymilk until it foams up I do not need to cook it any longer. Since the soymilk I used yesterday was at least partially cooked before I put it in the pot, I will have to research that and make sure that I am cooking the beans long enough before or after boiling. I am also VERY into using the okara now! One experiment I plan to do is mash it in with some tofu to make patties and either lightly fry or air fry them, but I have not yet decided what flavors or seasonings to add. I would definitely like to add some garlic and onions! I love tofu but I do NOT like that it has no fiber in it, so I'll be looking for ways to add the okara to the same dishes in which I am eating the tofu, because I need lots of fiber! I'll be giving my Soyabella to a thrift shop. I was gifted an "Almond Cow" which is like a non-cooking Soyabella that works very well. However, when I can I like to soak and then blanch my almonds to slip off their skins and process them on the highest speed of the blender, leaving in the fiber when it's just for me. Otherwise -- for guests, etc. -- it's nice to have the Almond Cow take the fiber out for me. I never would have bought it for myself, though. Much too expensive just to get the fiber out of the almond milk when I can do that for free with a nutmilk bag! Hugs from across the pond! @@HealthOrigins

Oh, fab, you won't regret it! Yes, I keep on meaning to try making rice milk in it, definitely one of the future videos! 🙂

That's great, I am glad it's helpful! 🙂❤️

Hm, that is trange, it normally takes about 15 minutes or so. And it should definitely give a few beeps at the end and turn green. Perhaps you pressed Mill option rather than Milk by mistake? If not, then perhaps contact the manufacturer/supplier and they might need to send you a replacement machine.

You are welcome! 👍

Yes, a nut milk bag would work too, I just find it less messy with a strainer.

Yes, definitely cheaper - it works out 19 pence per 1.3 litre of soy milk and the electricity used is not much as it's only 15 minutes to make it with the machine. I buy the bulk organic soy beans from buywholefoodsonline.com or you can find them on amazon too: amzn.to/2ULCNpj (Disclaimer: as an Amazon associate I will get a small commission if you buy through this link with no extra cost to you).

I guess you could, but perhaps not too much, so that it wouldn't taste too thick and pulpy.

@@HealthOrigins Thanks for the advice!

Do you use the full plastic measuring cup and do you soak your soy beans for at least 12 hours? I normally get about 1 & 1/2 cup okara out of that 🙂

@@HealthOrigins yes I soak my beans at least 12 hours and only use one plastic cup that came with it. I used to pour it through a sieve when milk was finished but there was hardly any okara so I stopped straining it.

Interesting, I also use one of these plastic cups per 1 litre of water 🙂

@@HealthOrigins that is interesting, maybe the differences of water, although I do filter my water because it’s so hard where I live, or the type of beans, I don’t know.

Thanks!

Very interesting. I think the beany taste might be OK for some dishes, but I don't think most people would enjoy beany tasting soy milk on their cereal or in their tea. 🙂

You're very welcome! 🙂👍