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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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ATTENTION:  ChufaMix doesn’t work with GMO seeds!

ATTENTION: ChufaMix doesn’t work with GMO seeds!

Seeds and water are necessary elements that we use with Chufamix to make vegetable milks. Seeds and water, similarly to the Earth and the Sun, are the fundamentals of life. More than 10.000 years ago humans started growing cereals and carefully selecting the best...

Edible forest

All over the world, from Indonesia to the Amazon, through to Africa, Europe and Northamerica, large forests, consisting of native trees, have become extinct at a crashing rhythm. Deforestation without an efficient reforestation, has serious consequences: It damages...

How to improve vegan milks with teas

How to improve vegan milks with teas

Tea is a very healthy drink. Teas and infusions are often taken for breakfast, meals, at tea time... we take them for pleasure or for medical purposes such as to help digestion, to sleep, to heal the flu... Why not include them in our homemade vegan milks? Obtain a...

Supporting the fair cocoa trade with our vegan milks

Our vegan milks often use chocolate products to help make them more attractive to children with lactose intolerance. In our interest to provide detailed information to our Chufamix users, we´ve participated in a Venezuelan chocolate tasting to benefit the Healing...

How to clean the filter anywhere

How to clean the filter anywhere

Now that we are coming into the holiday season and some of you might be thinking of taking the ChufaMix away with you caravaning to the mountain, the beach, on a picnic and so on, we thought we´d take the opportunity to share this video recorded in Stockholm on...

Bringing back “food soverignty”

Is the right to food and water a basic right in the 21º century , or not? Well if it is , why is it constantly violated, causing death , semi - slavery and marginalization in the lives of many people ? Should this be a crime, or not? In 2008 , when the prices of corn,...

Tiger nuts milk’s  properties

Tiger nuts milk’s properties

We are tiger nut lovers. It has been cultivated in Valencia (Spain) by the family farming model, at least, since the Middle Ages . We use it to make a delicious " horchata " or tiger nut milk. It´s also a very nutritional and medicinal drink. According to...

Germinating seeds at home

Germinating seeds at home

On the 15-16 March a meeting for the exchange of local seeds was held at the Bizitoki country house hotel in the beautiful province of Baxe Nafarroa (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) which we attended with great interest. At this meeting two open workshops were held . The first...

Water is life, but is it treated as such?

When we say LIFE, we mean all kinds of life, not just human life; life in plants, animals, fish, trees, molecules. Water is an essential part of all our foods, our cells and the molecular reactions among them. Therefore depriving someone of the right to drink water...

Sesame milk´s properties

Sesame milk´s properties

Native to Africa and Asia , also called ajonjolí or benne , sesame is one of the oldest seeds and it has been used primarily in Asia for its nutritional, preventative and curative properties. Sesame seed has a pleasant flavour which stands out for its high protein...

Grinding the rolled oats

Grinding the rolled oats

Our friend, Maru Lekuona (from Araia, Basque Country) who is a chufamix user, has shared an interesting trick to make oats milk with ground flakes. First, we put the flakes in the chufamix filtering glass, but without water. Blend the rolled oats with the hand blender...

Hemp milk: Nutritional values

Hemp milk: Nutritional values

Hemp is a plant that is well adapted to most climates , it doesn´t need much water and is highly resistant to pests, so cultivation doesn´t need chemical pesticides. It´s typically grown in Mediterranean countries and Asia. Hemp is one of the most beneficial plants....

Chufa farming; a model of familiar farming

The tigernut or chufa ( Cyperus esculentus L.) is a herbaceous plant, closely related to Cyperus rotundus. It contains a rhizome or a root storage organ which is like a tiny edible potato and it has many nutritional attributes and medicinal properties. The chufa has...

Grinding the seeds at home

Grinding the seeds at home

When we make a plant-based milk from hard seeds, such as tigernuts (chufa), we usually leave them to soak for 12 to 24 hours. If they aren´t soaked beforehand, the blender suffers a lot and may even break. Alternatively, grind the tiger nuts before placing them in the...

Natural Rice Milk´s  nutritional properties

Natural Rice Milk´s nutritional properties

Rice is a cereal, so it doesn’t have lactose or cholesterol. Unlike oat and spelt, it´s also glutenfree. If it is whole-grain rice, it provides more nutrients and fibre than the white one (because of this helps to avoid constipation). Whole-grain rice is rich in...

Properties of birdseeds’ milk

Properties of birdseeds’ milk

Birdseed is an herbaceous plant of the Gramineae family, and it comes from the Mediterranean. Its seeds, and the vegetal milk produced with them, are among the strongest and most nutritional and, speaking from a sensorial point of view, its vegetal milk is delicious....

Public springs and drinking water in Europe

The quality of water is very important to make a good vegetable milk. The amount of natural, fresh springs with water coming from the mountain and its subterranean rivers are decreasing because many of them are now connected to the public water network. Many springs...

What can we do with the pulp?

What can we do with the pulp?

Here at Chufamix, we encourage you to recycle the pulp after making your vegetable drinks. Never throw it down the sink because it could block it ! Possibilities: Gastronomic: You can cook tasty recipes, both sweet and savoury. In the recipes section, there is a...

Soy milk, yin & yang.

Soy is a bean of eastern origins that represents as no other the real Yin-Yang philosophy: YIN: Especially rich in proteins, compared with other vegetable drinks, because it contains the 8 essential amino acids that the body needs to work. Moreover, it has less fats,...

Improving the texture with nutritional supplements

Sedimentation is quite usual among natural vegetable drinks; this is when most of the material falls down to the bottom, and the rest of the milk is watery. This is usual with milks made from cereals. With tigernut and peanut milks, there is also sedimentation....

Almond milk’s properties

Almond milk’s properties

As the other nuts, it doesn’t have gluten or lactose, and it is very rich in oleic oil, which makes it healthy for the heart and corrects bad cholesterol levels. Furthermore, as tiger nut horchata, it has been recommended during centuries by midwifes to pregnant and...

Properties of oats milk

Properties of oats milk

Oats is a cereal rich in proteins with a high biological value, fats and many vitamins and minerals and, among the 8 amino acids necessary for life, oats contains 6. It has a high content in fibre that helps the good performance of the intestine, and also to...

Basic advice on making plant milks

Basic advice on making plant milks

We are going to share with you some of the things that we've learnt making many kinds of vegetable drinks with our Vegan Milker. It's a learning process which has had many contributions from people all around the world. Water temperature: Each type of food has...

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