Rice milk - not rice pudding but the rice drink.

[spanner]

Hi ,

This will determin if we buy a TMX or not.

Does anyone have a recipe for rice milk.

Our household ( except for me) all drink rice milk. We do not drink soy milk due to some of the health issues associated with soy so if we can make our own fresh rice milk then we would save over 600 to 800 a year and with in three or four years it would be a worthwhile investment.

I guess you can see who does not do the majority of cooking in this house hold . 

Anyway if some one could help me with this then i could well be convinced that we need a TMX rather than painting the inside of our house.

Cheers,

Spanner 

[brazen20au]

there is a recipe in one of the books ,yes. i have made it but not drunk it (i made it for my young dd)

[judydawn]

Hi Spanner, just to show you how easy it would be to make rice milk - here's the recipe.

50g whole brown rice + 1000g water. 
Place rice into the bowl and pulverise for 1 minute on speed 8.
Add water and cook for 7 minutes at 100o on speed 3.
Slowly turn the dial from speed 1 to speed 8 for 1 minute to puree.
Strain & cool before refrigerating.

Tips - the milk can be sweetened by adding and crushing a few dates or with honey.

So there is your saving and you can go ahead and buy the wonderful Thermomix

[Thermomixer]

So there is your saving and you can go ahead and buy the wonderful Thermomix

... and paint the house too !!

[spanner]

Cheers.

If it can be done like you say in less that 10 minutes that is Waaaaayyyyyy better than going to the stupidmarket.

***shouts over shoulder***  Hoooneeeyyyyy ..... you can get that thingymajig doovahicky cooking whatsit if you like"

 

[judydawn]

Looking forward to all your experiences once you get your TMX. You can't afford NOT to have one

[faffa_70]

Cheers.

If it can be done like you say in less that 10 minutes that is Waaaaayyyyyy better than going to the stupidmarket.

***shouts over shoulder***  Hoooneeeyyyyy ..... you can get that thingymajig doovahicky cooking whatsit if you like"

 

Absolutely ROFL  look forward to many more of your posts...this is an investment you will truly come to love more each and every day.

[brazen20au]

heeheehee

welcome to the clan!

[spanner]

Ok ......  just doing some Math to convince us (read -  ME) that this is a good financial investment.

We use about 6 litres of rice milk a week.....(due to some of the family deciding that they are going to have an allergy to dairy!!!) Humph! 

6 litres x 52 weeks = 312 ltrs / year

Cost per ltr is about $3.50
$3.50 x 312 ltrs = $1092 a year on shop bought rice milk    ( of which I get none!!!) 

right.... so apprantly you say it takes 50 gms of rice to make 1 ltr of Rice milk in the TMX.***looks at judydawn ***

So ..... 50gm x 312 ltrs = 15600 grams (or 15.6 kg) -- Lets be really conservative and make it 20 kg a year to make 312 litres. As I am sure we will spill, spoil and generally stuff up a few batches and there is also a loss of liquid from the straining etc and I am sure we will bugger up a few batches!!!!

ok ...  the cost per kg of long grain organic white rice is $4.40 kg.

$4.40 x 20kg = $88.00. This is the cost of the raw ingredients for the years worth of rice milk.

$1092 (cost of shop bought rice milk) MINUS $88.00 (cost of organic rice) = $1004.  This is the potential savings or $1004 per year.   

Now I think the cost of a TMX is about $2000 (give or take a few bucks). 

So if my Math has been correct so far ( I am not known for my mathamatical prowess so please check the figures for me  ) we will have paid of the cost of the TMX with in 2 years.

I am no rocket scientist but this makes complete financial sense.

Also it does not take into account the carbon foot print of the packaging of the comercial rice milk, transport, fuel, stress of shopping at the stupidmarket as well as the obligitory impulse buys and the strain of carrying a zillion litres of rice milk to and from the car........hang on .... just the tooing and froing from the car is enough.....

**** Stands up and yells to dear wife****

"When are we having that demonstration and free feed again???"   

[brazen20au]

it also takes no consideration of the other savings and health benefits

[faffa_70]

Mine paid for itself in no time flat just for the time it saved ME!!!! let alone the cost savings and also the health benefits - oh and the savings on all the eczema creams etc that we now no longer use  (well maybe very rarely if we have a flare up from weather or something lol)

[spanner]

We actually do a lot of home prep of meals and stuff so we dont get the crap in our foods that the big manufacturers put in....but this has all be basically done with a hand held stick blender and a basic (nad I mean very basic) food processor.

We have been making bread etc for a while and all that sort of good stuff ...  actually when I say we I actually mean mainly my dear wife.

So if we can find something that can help us do this better and faster then it woul dbe good BUT it was ...and still is to a certain degree that is holding me back.

Have to wait for the demo ...... when ever that will be.

[judydawn]

I do enjoy reading your postings Spanner, you are a hoot

[I Love Bimby!]

Here, Here!!! I have had a good chuckle spanner!!! Thank you! 

[vivacity]

Judydawn: Thanks for the recipe. I tried it out as soon as I read it. The "milk" is thinner than the version you buy in a carton, but I liked the taste after adding some honey. Once you work out the price of brown rice (here: 2.69 Euros/1 kg) and compare it to the cost of the readymade stuff (cheapest: 1.09 Euros), then it is definitely cheaper to make your own.

I won't be buying rice milk from the supermarket any more.