Vegan Theory Club Weekly Mega thread: 2024-12-15 - 2024-12-22 (vegantheoryclub.org)

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Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!

Question of the week:

What’s a kitchen tool or appliance you can’t live without as a vegan cook?

Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.

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[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Really worth it that much?

Do you miss the fortified nature of store bought but garbage tasting milk?

[-] mosquibee@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's probably made back what it cost us several times over.

We do fine without fortification as we are proud weak vegans.

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] mosquibee@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.