Making Almond Milk in the Ace Plus Blender by Instant Pot is one of our more popular videos which is why we're featuring it as our very first favorite video of the week. This was only the second thing Mrs. LION made with this blender as it was something we knew we needed to know that the machine could make as we made it frequently with the Ninja 1100 Blender. We give the Ace Plus Blender 4 thumbs up for how it handled Almond Milk. It even came with a cute little nut bag for straining the milk out of the almonds. WHAT TO EXPECT |
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* A coffee french press was attempted to use to separate the nut pulp from the "milk," but the blender did such a great job grinding up the almonds that it was impossible to use this method. MAKING YOUR OWN ALMOND MILK | Prep one cup of raw almonds in your Instant Pot. Mrs. LION used low pressure for not even one minute and then used the quick release. See below for more about what a time saver this is. Upon the pressure release, it's time to rinse off the almonds. We used a Chef'n Sift'n Sieve Flour Sifter and Sieve for our strainer and took the skins off. Taking the skins off is completely optional and can be a time saver if you don't feel like removing them. Just make sure you've rinsed off your almonds really well. Place your almonds into your blender. We use the Instant Ace Plus Blender with a Nut Oat Milk Button and put in 2 cups of filtered water. We prefer a 4 cup of filtered water to 1 Cup of Nuts ratio, but it's less messy to only use 2 cups to start. If you are ONLY wanting 2 cups, there is a step down below you will want to do before you start your blender. Press the Nut Milk Button and let your Ace Plus Blender do it's thing. Upon completion of the cycle, MRS. LION poured the almond water into the french press for separation. However, this technique failed because the blender does such a great job grinding up the almonds. The almond pulp & water we transferred to a nut bag. Squeeze all that liquid goodness out of the nut bag and into a container of your choice. We prefer Mason Jars at our house. Put your almond pulp into a separate container so you can turn it into Almond Flour later. Pour your Almond Milk back into the blender and add your preference of water (we add 2 more cups). Add in your optional ingredients (for us that's salt & honey, but you might prefer dates & vanilla). Do that step above should you only choose a 2 cup Almond Milk. Pulse it for another 30 seconds and then it's ready to pour into a mason jar to go into the fridge. SAVING TIME BY USING INSTANT POT| You absolutely do not need to use the Instant Pot to pressure cook your almonds for a minute. However, it's a huge time saver. What could take up to 24 hours only takes 10 minutes. Instant Pot (my specific model is DUO80, but any one would work -- you could even bring them to a boil on the stove instead, but for me the set it and forget it option for the instant pot for the almonds is worth it because I can get everything else ready while it's coming to low pressure) Another time saver is not removing the skins. You could simply remove them from the instant pot and give them a good rinse before throwing them straight into the blender. SIDE NOTE | This is Mrs. LION's first (and last) attempt using the French Press for pressing the Almond Milk, but the Ace Plus Blender does a tremendous job in making the Almond Milk. This is the primary reason we utilize a blender so it was very important for us to be able to make Almond Milk with it. This video also includes a bonus segment Can She Make in an attempt to make almond pulp crackers, but it was a big fat fail! BEHIND THE SCENES | We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We may have used Tube Buddy for the thumbnail along with Canva (can't remember since this was created back in June 2020). This video debuted on Like It Or Not YouTube Channel on June 15, 2020. ONE LAST THOUGHT | It was at this point in time that Mrs. Like It Or Not decided not to color her hair anymore. She was nearly 6 months into the process and there was no turning back. She was still a little uncomfortable with the camera, but through the journey of Can She Make it in the Ace Plus Blender she became more and more comfortable with her friend Canon 80D.
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