Something to try for... The what butter?

My husband loves peanut butter...

He got curious and asked if the slow juicer could make some peanut butter when he saw me juicing the almond nuts previously...

This question really make me ponder, so I did some research over the web and found a video on youtube... This juicer reviewer guy (raw food something..) demo the making of peanut butter using heavy duty slow juicer...

The keys are:

1. The slow juicer has to be heavy duty or it will damage the motor since it will be done without water and no pre-soaking required
2. The peanuts are best to be roasted nuts so its oil content will make it easier during the juicing process and the pulp will become the peanut butter
3. When 'juicing' peanut butter, it's best to open up the silicon slot underneath the juicer to allow better pressure flow in releasing the pulp from the unit

This is really an interesting finding and I hope to try it one day.... The only concern in my mind is, I wasn't sure if A*Juicer is a 'heavy duty' juicer that suit this making... Nevertheless, I thought I should share with you what's on my mind with the potential juicing project... Haa!

Let me know if you have tried it! Cheers! ^^

There's something to share about APPLES

I have no idea what to juice recently... a trip to the supermarket didn't pack much back...

Fruits are getting more expensive nowadays...

And have you seen or are you are even aware of the ROSE apples in the market now? They are called the "Rose" apples... rosy red, not waxy and absolutely sweet!

 The first rose apple I ever tried was many months ago when my parents got them from cold storage. Those apples were small and selling at almost $1 each at that time...

BUT Seriously SWEET!

Since then, we would look out for only Rose apples... not crunchy kiwi apple, good-bye to fuji apples, seen some envy apples from US or NZ... but we ONLY buy ROSE apples!

There seems to be a season for such great fruit... the rose apples that we manage to get now no longer taste that sweet as they used to be, though still better than the almost tasteless CN fuji apples...

Speaking of apples, I should probably get some cheap ones for juicing since I heard that i may help to ease constipation in kid... Green + Red, perhaps! Hope this help!

(And my girl loves juice!)

Some days later

It's been sometime since I last post entry about the usage of my juicer...

It's been more than a month since I got this juicer...

That doesn't mean that I haven't been using it... Haa! I had made soy bean milk (coarse strainer), almond milk (coarse strainer), orange juice (fine strainer) and banana smoothie (fine strainer)!

Sorry, no pics as I was in a rush when making all these (on different days of course!) Just a quick tip to share with all as one of my lesson learnt...

When making Banana smoothie...

Tip#1 Do not freeze the entire banana, try to peel them before freezing
Why is this so? Because when the skin turned hard, it's challenging to peel the skin properly...

Tip#2 Keep the rubber unblock at the bottom of the juicing unit
This allows the 'pulp' which is the smoothie to come off unit more easily

I'll share some pics next time when I do it correctly next time... Anyway, it tastes pretty good this batch... so just some pointers to note.... Cheers~*

Sadly.... my 4th warranty registration...

It's not that the juicer is having any problem now... Also, under my care, I was almost confident that it probably won't need for any servicing within 1 year...

However, it took really too long with its warranty registration process...

The juicer was received on 3rd Jun, I tried the first online registration about a week later, so probably 8th or 9th Jun? I forgot...

I received nothing... so I tried again.... and again.... and after the 3rd time, I sent a feedback to the company but nothing was received. Lucky enough that my ex-classmate was working there so he tried to find out for me and kept me posted on the progress...

This evening, upon request, I did my 4th online registration... and here's the screenshot, just in case if it went missing (again)....

Hope it can be settled soon... Cheers!

Updated on 7/3: So I received a confirmation that my warranty registration is processed. Now, I'm waiting for my e-recipe ^^

Day 20 - Grapefruit Juice

It's been a week of haze, really bad haze and very luckily, our first blue sky in this week...

Even if its for 1/2 a day, it's happiness to see such clear sky... Beauty of nature!

After some researches from web about drinks that help to cleanse our lungs... I learnt that we should cut down on diary intake and focus on anti-oxidant fruits/teas... 

Lemon with water in the morning with empty stomach, some cranberry, grapefruit or carrot juice... Mint tea... Ginger... Blah blah blah... Would help a little...

So I grabbed some grapefruits from supermarket on Friday morning before the haze hit 401 that 'grey and smoky' Friday.

Here's total of 6 grapefruits, peeled and separated into smaller pieces for feeding to the slow juicer...

My first time juicing grapefruit... 

BTW, I tried a new app 'LINE Tools' which I just installed recently... To check on the noise level, not sure how accurate but just to share...

Before juicing (normal noise level in my kitchen with doors and windows closed)

When A*Juicer was turned on but without feeding of fruits

And this was when the grapefruits were fed into the juicer... Somehow ard the similar range...

This portion yielded about 5 Cups of juice. (FYI, I used fine strainer) It was a little bitter and sour... So I added some maple syrup to neutralize the taste... Pretty good!

No video as it's very similar to my post on juicing oranges...

Here's the pulp...

And not forgetting the cleaning part... Nothing much left with the centre screw so cleaning was not too tedious...

Take care, folks! Hope we can all pull through this hazy period... And may all the dengue mosquitoes be eliminated entirely!

Stay safe and healthy!! ^^

Day 18 - Soy Milk from my kitchen!

Soy milk is readily available at many places in Singapore (or SE Asia)... If you prefer to drink it with less sugar, you can always request that to the counter staff/ stall owner.

It was nice and healthy, yet cheap and so available... So it hadn't come to my mind of making it at home until I was much older and more keen to adventure on my favorite food... favorite food? This could be tricky because I love a lot of food... Haa!

Today, I've made it, finally! Thanks to my parents for helping to get the dried soy beans, pandan leaves and rock sugar on behalf as I was pretty stuck at home (yesterday) due to the very unhealthy level of haze condition.

Before I did this adventure on my own, I read up from the web to find the most commonly used recipe/portion, key pointers from pple with years of soy milk experiences...

Plenty of 'written' soy milk recipe was made by blending, followed by straining using cheese cloth... I'm using the slow juicer!!! (Guidance came mainly on YouTube without much tips)...

As mentioned, I did this on my own so I didn't have a model for video. Nevertheless, it's just like how I did the almond milk in my previous post. So to speak, I only have tips and pics to share...

Gathered tips as follow:

1. Try to use non-GMO beans (or organic)

2. If the weather is too hot, replace the soaking water in between the 12 hours or keep the soak in fridge

3. Make sure the soaked beans are soft enough so it doesn't challenge ya tools (be it a blender or a slow juicer)

3. Keep stirring when boiling the milk as residue might get burnt at the bottom of the pot

Before 

1 cup of dried beans swelled into 2.5 cups of cute soy beans after 13 hours (Since I overslept... Oops!)

I use total of 8 cups of water for juicing with the beans (the soaking water was discard), so 2 of the following.

After

I used fine strainer to ensure min. Pulp in the juice... And maximum Okara (the dry part of beans after juicing. This could be recycled onto many other dishes but this was my first time so I wasn't ready...)

Poured the yield of over 8 cups of milk into a big pot, threw in about 4-6 pieces of fresh pandan leaves (folded) and bring it to boil over medium low heat. 

Kept stirring to avoid burnt... After boil, add in a piece of rock sugar for sweetening the milk... Let it cool in the pot or serve immediately when warm. It can be kept for 3-4 days in fridge... But why won't you finish it and make it fresh and warm daily!? Haa ^^

It's really simple when made with slow juicer because the juicing included straining, while using a blender, the mixture had to be strained separately. I wondered if that affect the richness in taste of the milk... So perhaps someone who tried both ways could share a little based on your experience?!

Lastly, here's my cleaning part... Very simple, as usual!

Day 11 - It is Almond Milk!!

I love almond... And I love milk...

Today, I was thrilled! This is the first time I'm making almond milk!

I wanted to try this since the first time I saw the making of almond milk using slow juicer on YouTube... I searched online for recipe and each have a different saying...

Some say 1 cup of almonds to 1 cup of water, others have 1 cup of almonds to 3 to 4 cups of water...

Some say reserve the soaking water to juice it together... Some say do not use the soaking water but fresh new water when juicing...

For me, I started the preparation since last night. I soaked 1.5 cup of almonds in 3 cups of warm drinking water and let it stand overnight...

After 12 hours, the soaking water turned brownish but with a light almond fragrance... Seriously, I was tempted to reuse this water for juicing as I believe there's rich nutrients from the soaked almond... However, I didn't want my first almond milk to turn out brownish, so I replaced it with drinking water.

After soaking overnight, the almonds had grown in size... It's 2 cups of almond in the morning, so I used 7 cups of water to juice for almond milk... (Maybe its too diluted? I didn't know until I try but I didn't want to spoil my juicer when it's merely 11 days old with me... So let's just try!!

Here's the video of the 'grounding' of soaked almonds, using A*Juicer. The noise level was acceptable (at least my girl was still sleeping, while we were happily trying to juice almond milk).



I didn't managed to measure the exact amount if milk made from this batch of almonds as simple maths could tell that 7 cups of water + 2 cups of almonds would easily exceed the 4 cup capacity of the container... Wahahaha! Here's the huge amount of milk yielded from this proportion of 'recipe' (with extremely dry pulp). It's not very rich taste of almond but with a light fragrance of it. In terms of its texture, it's just like fresh milk. I'd probably cut down the proportion of drinking water for juicing during the next batch to see if it could taste richer  :)

And don't forget about the cleaning up! Nothing much was left inside the juicer so cleaning was a breeze today! *Clap Clap*

I was getting happier with this juicer the moment it passed the almond milk test... Wahahaha!! Next on my trial list would be soy milk... If you are longing for a good slow juicer, my humble advise to you would be, why not try this A*Juicer ^^