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[-] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Depends on where you live. In some parts of the world, it's already cheaper. It's worth noting here that the dairy industry receives massively outsized subsidies compared to other industries all around the world

[-] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To make them cheap, make it yourself.

Making oat milk is a really simple process & to make it more like commercially available products, you can add various other ingredients such as xanthan gum to bind it as well as various things for flavour such as a small amount of cinnamon.

[-] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Nobody has the time to do that.

Plant milks need to become way cheaper than currently 5x the cost for me in India.

So you have 3 choices there:

Examine your time management as you will have time that youre actually just procrastinating or pursuing bullshit that doesnt really matter as much as you think. (Dont lie - Very few people actually dont).

It takes 10 minutes to make a batch. Less time than will take you to walk to a shop (see here for a simple recipe/process: https://minimalistbaker.com/make-oat-milk/ )

Pay 5x the cost for plant based products - is your time really worth that much in exchange for the convenience?
Keep drinking disgusting cows milk.

[-] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

It's literally putting stuff in a blender and then straining. with your reasoning, why even bother baking or cooking?

[-] 0xc0ba17@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

No idea how long it takes to make 1L of almond milk, but if it's literally blending and straining, that's not really comparable to cooking or baking where half the enjoyment is in the process.

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[-] zekiz@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

What a scam. Here in Germany it's more expensive but not by much

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

That surprises me, since I'm told (a large part of) India deems cows holy and over here, the cheapest milk is from cows kept under inhumane conditions...

[-] Ilikemoney@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago

I like oat milk. It tastes the best and it's one of the least environmentally impactful, I think

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Oat milk is pretty solid across all metrics:

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks

[-] CCatMan@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Easiest to make at home, no need to buy EXCEPT for convenience. You can also get calcium powder to add to what you make so..yeah. oat "milk" is the best really. Love it.

With all this said, I do love to taste of Horizon UHT whole milk that my kid drinks... Lol so if I forget to make my oat milk, I grab one of these.

[-] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

The inconvenience really killed my drive to make it myself, so instead I got a plant milk maker. Haha. Paid for itself after about a year.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

How does it work? I'd love to not have to buy oat milk anymore, but I've never had good results trying to make it at home.

[-] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

It's pretty much a blender with a tank, a heating function and self-cleaning. It has different options for different type of plant milks, which (I suppose) change how much it heats the water and how long it blends everything. Which is pretty much what they do for the store bought oat milk as well.

What makes the biggest difference in taste though is not the maker itself (although it does make a difference) but using Amylase when you're done blending. It's an enzyme that breaks starch into sugar. Without it the oat milk will probably be pretty thick or even kind of slimy. As far as I know it is also used in store bought milk to give it a natural sweetness.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Okay I so want to try this now.

[-] fox@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

That's very intriguing! What brand/model milk maker did you buy?

[-] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I have a Springlane plantmilk maker. It was just under 200€. Can't speak for the brand in general but I have the maker since last year and I am still happy with it.

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[-] 7eter@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Amylase... It’s an enzyme that breaks starch into sugar. Without it the oat milk will probably be pretty thick or even kind of slimy

oh wow that's a good hint! Whenever i tried making oat milk myself yet it ended up either slimy or otherwise to watery.

I wonder why i have never seen it as an ingredient in commercial plant milk yet.

[-] CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

You don't necessarily need to declare enzymes in food manufacturing. They are consumed/used/deactivated before the final product. They would be listed as "processing aids" in the process description, just like pH adjustment chemicals, activated carbon treatment, antifoamer, etc.

Source: engineer in food industry.

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[-] Dream_state@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Oat milk is the goat 👌

[-] Tretiak@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Can't spell goat without the "oat."

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I'm going to ~~shamelessly steal that~~ borrow that

[-] wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago

oat milk is the best I've ever had, it's the only one someone has given me and i didn't immediately identify it as not real milk

[-] wesley_cook@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Oat milk is the way

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[-] resignedOctopus@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I've never seen hazelnut milk in Germany. That sounds insanely good

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I saw it in Edeka i believe. It's very "heavy" and creamy.

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[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I don't know if there's any way for humanity to continue at all at this point, it seems that whatever is done, there's always a downside to it. Never mind the cost (not just monetary) to an average person regarding many of the alternatives.

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[-] Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

I'd happily switch to a non-dairy alternative, but finding a plant-milk that has the right mouthfeel seems to be an uphill challenge.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

If you're into chocolate milk, I've found pre-mixed chocolate oat milk to have a really nice mouthfeel (IMHO better than cow milk). Obviously, your mileage might vary, though, depending on the brand...

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I haven't personally tried these, but there are some plant milks that try to be closer to dairy out there like NotMilk, NextMilk, WonderMilk, etc. I've also read that peamilk is generally pretty close to dairy

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[-] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Soy milk is best milk for cereal 👌

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[-] yozul@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Almond milk would arguably be one of the better options if it weren't for the fact that 80% of the world's almonds are being grown in a desert going through a mega-drought.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, though it's worth pointing out here again that dairy milk is still worse in that regard in those regions:

One graph even has California's animal feed water usage so large it actually goes off the chart at 15.2 million acre-feet of water (it is distorted to make it fit as it notes). For some comparison, the blue water usage of animal feed is larger than all of almonds water usage of ~2 million acre-feet of water

https://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ca_ftprint_full_report3.pdf#page=25

Pastures themselves are often in areas that don't receive much rainfall and need watering. For example, one chart from 2003 put California's water usage just for pastures higher than crops from human consumption. Since then the rankings may have changed a tiny bit, but the water usage is still enormous just on pastures alone

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/California-Total-Water-Use-by-Crop-2003_fig3_294579954

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[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Me, I like hemp milk

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