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Home made tofu tastes much better than tofu you buy from stores. Most people tried enjoy the process as well. Here we present an step by step instruction on making soy milk with SoyaJoy soy milk maker, and then make tofu from soy milk.
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I used to make soy milk with a blender and cheese cloth and six pots and pans. Now I use the SoyaJoy soy milk maker. It reduces the time from 2 hours to 20 minutes. Just add soaked soybean and water into the SoyaJoy soy milk maker and push the start button. Fresh, hot soy milk is ready in 15 minutes! For more detail click the link below.
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1. Make four batches of soy milk per SoyaJoy User Manual. Once the soy milk is made, the major part of the work for making tofu is done!
2. Pour all the batches into a pot and simmer soymilk for 5to 10 minutes. Cool down to about 170 to 180 degree F.
3. Prepare coagulant ¨C dissolve either one teaspoon Nigari (natural magnesium chloride) or two teaspoons natural calcium sulfate in one cup of warm water. Less coagulant produces softer tofu, More produces harder tofu.
4. Pour the prepared coagulant solution slowly into the soymilk while gently stirring the soymilk. Stop stirring once 3/4 of coagulant solution is added. Wait 2-3 minutes. Now, gently stir the forming curds and sprinkle the last 1/4 of coagulant solution into any milky areas. If there is no milky area left, you do not need to add the rest of coagulant solution. If there is still some milky area after adding all coagulant solution, mix some more to use.
5. Once all soymilk is separating into small white curds of tofu and an amber liquid (whey). Transfer coagulated dispersion into a tofu mold (or tofu box) lined with cheesecloth. Any container has many small holes in it to allow left over whey to drain can serve as a tofu mold. A lid is placed on the forming container. A small weight of 3 to 5 pounds is placed on the lid of the container and allowed to sit for 20 minutes or so. A pot of water can serve as the weight.
6. Empty the resulting block of tofu into a tub of cold water and allow it to sit for another hour then store the tofu in refrigerator and change soaking water daily.
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