Pure Joy Planet Living Food Bag Nut Milk

I bought this bag as a replacement cheese cloth. The first thing I did with it was make paneer out of cottage cheese. Works perfectly. Then I started making hashbrowns with the bag. Grate a potato then strain it with the bag to remove excess water. I notice that once I did this, the holes became much bigger. Probably too big to strain nut-milk, but that was okay with me. After about four months of this, I ripped a small hole in the bag. It was still usable. Next, I started using it to brew loose leaf teas. Loose tea leaves are better quality and price then tea-bags, but they are a pain to brew. Either throw them into hot water and fish them out afterward or use a metal strainer, but the strainer doesn't let the tea leaves "breath". The nut-bag fixes both problems. Just put some loose tea leaves in the bag and brew normally. Then dump the leaves out later. It was at this point the bag started to discolor brown from the tea leaves (but only because I let the leaves dry in the bag), but was still usable. And because it is so easy to clean, I wasn't worry about it the brown color being bacteria or dirt. Just run the bag under some hot water while gently scrubbing with a soapy sponge. Then rinse clean. I started cooking dumplings. Traditionally, I would put cabbage between the dumplings and the metal steamer basket to keep the dumplings from sticking, but I found that the nut-bag works just as well. I wasn't sure if it could handle the high heat of a steamer, but I ended up cooking more then twenty batches of dumplings without a problem. I only threw it out because I melted part of the bag on a hot pan. I'm going to buy a new one or two. My conclusion: Cheap price, multiple uses (though it becomes useless for nut-milk making if used for anything else, but just buy two), easy to clean, and very durable. Every kitchen needs one of these bags. They are one of them most useful items I have ever bought.

Although this is referred to as a "Nut-Milk Bag," I have been using it solely for rice milk with great success. Before this product, I had never made my own nondairy milk, although I have drank store-bought almond & soy milk for years, because I thought the process would be intimidating and not worth the hassle. I was wrong! With this bag, I have made delicious, creamy brown rice milk. Best of all, I no longer have to worry about the negative health consequences of things like processed oils and carrageenan like you do with store-bought milk. I was afraid I'd make this bag rip by squeezing too hard, but it seems very durable. It really keeps the "pulp" out and is very easy to clean afterward. I also love that the "pulp" doesn't have to go to waste, like I imagine it does in the factories that produce nondairy milk. At least with brown rice milk, I am left over with basically a cream-of-wheat or oat bran-texture porridge that I love re-heating with a pinch of sea salt. I'm looking forward to trying more "exotic" milks than I can find in the store, like quinoa-rice milk, walnut milk, and red bean-rice milk. :) Thanks, Elaina Love!

This bag is a fine mesh which does a great job at straining just about everything. It's intended for nut milk, but it also works for other tasks such as making juice or straining a sauce. I use it to make green juice, and it works very well for that purpose. It holds an ideal volume, and it's shape allows it to easy be placed in a jar or container for straining. It washes well, but it is white and is prone to staining. It's durable and high quality. This is a great tool to have in any kitchen.

Bought this to make homemade almond milk. Works great. Love the drawstring so I can hang it on my cabinet knob in my kitchen and have it strain into a bowl. I've had it for awhile now and I am noticing some stretching towards the bottom of the bag from when I have to squeeze and put added pressure down there to get the last bit of milk out but I'm just more aware of it now and try to not be too rough. But I've had it for over 6 months and it's held up this long. As a side note, for easy cleaning I actually use the bag inside out so the seam is on the outside. When your done getting the milk out you just flip the bag right side out and dump out the pulp and then easily rinse it off. It actually is much much easier to clean than I thought it would be.

I purchased a nut milk bag locally at the suggestion of a clerk when I told them I was making my own yogurt. Using a strainer and coffee filters was taking forever to strain even a half gallon batch of yogurt. I was surprised at how well the nut milk bag worked. It is much faster with easier clean-up and the ability to strain a lot more at one time. When my kids told me that they all planned on eating yogurt with their school lunches, I had to up my batch to a full gallon of organic milk. Our local store was out of their nut milk bags, so I decided to order this bag from amazon. When I received it I was sure that I had made a mistake. It didn't seem as fine a strainer as my fabric bag. This morning I decided to give it a go, and wow, I was shocked that it worked just as well as my previous bag. I'm able to strain my gallon yogurt in record time (and as any mom knows, saving any time is well worth it!).

I just got this bag, and I love it. I used a large cloth yesterday to strain my coconut milk, and it was a huge pain. This made the process much easier. That said, the first thing I did yesterday was to bust a hole in my cotton cloth. So today when I received the bag, there was a link to the website with a note that the website included a video, so I went and watched it. Turns out that I was being WAY too rough with my cloth yesterday. So today, I did it just like she did in the video, and that kept me from applying the kind of pressure which will put a hole in the bag. This is a thin fabric which already has tiny holes in it. That's what we need for this job, but that also makes the bag delicate. I would love an easy to use nut milk bag which is also as strong as stainless steel, but the real world can't supply that just yet. This bag is a good quality and a good price.

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I purchased this bag based upon the reviews here, but I should have paid attention to the person who stated that they had to strain twice. I make Almond milk. I was really thrilled with the first batch made with this bag but then noticed all of the pulp in the jar on the following day. So I strained it again, this time using this bag INSIDE of a jelly straining bag that I got from a local kitchen store (more muslim like). I got a perfect milk. For the next batch of milk, I just used the same procedure, placed this inside the jelly bag. The process yielded a perfect batch, was very easy to do, quick enough, and clean up is not a problem at all. I always use the bags seam to the outside so that pulp does not easily get caught in the stitching. I still like the bag because it is so light and it is easy to see what the product is doing. I have learned not to squeeze the bags too much, not to protect the bag, but to avoid unwanted pulp. I read that some use this for fruit juice. That might be a better use, since the final product is tasty with a little pulp remaining. Updating. Adding information on the bags purchased locally - Mrs. Anderson's Jelly Strainer Bags set of 2 with drawstring. I paid $4.95 - which is an excellent price.

Sainsbury having stopped selling the muslin cloth I normally use to make my soy milk and tofu; I thought to try this as it was at a price where I could live with any possible let down. No let down just superb product and definitely superior to muslin when it comes to fine straining of soy pulp. My excellent Soybella milk maker kettle is now redundant as this with the superb Duronic blender Amazon sell (and boy is a good blender hard to find)now make 2 litres of milk in a mere 20 minutes and it tastes as good as my local Vietnamese restaurant's soy milk. Buy and be 'amazed' at this 'amazing' nut milk bag, I'm off to buy some Almonds.

Right now I'm using this every morning & then some. I put my favorite combination of vegetables in my extra-powerful blender & then pour it through this bag; then I have beautiful juice which digests instantly & with ease. I make a lighter vegetable broth this way too which is fantastic & flavorful; this makes for a great base for hearty soups such as the French Squash Soup recipe that I invented (Rosemary is a wonderful flavor). It is beautiful for making juice which is it's strength. To wash, just soak it in salty, hot, dish water for a short time (say, while your drinking your juice) & then agitate it a little & then rinse it out & hang to dry from an S-hook in your kitchen. Don't wash it with dish soap; you don't want that flavor to contaminate your juice; yuck. I will likely order another one of these one day. It is sturdy too.

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Works great as a nut bag. Can also be used to put bananas (fruit) in to keep fruit flies off

me facilita la extracción de mis lechadas, es amplia y fácil de lavar.