can i make nut butters with this model? do i need a dry container?
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I recently made cashew butter with this model. I don't own a dry container, but the wet container worked great - very easy and yummy. Just pour in at least four cups of nuts (I like raw and organic the best) and use the tamper to push the nuts down into the blade. The only problem is getting every delicious bite out of the bottom of the container!
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You use the wet container, not the dry, and use the tamper. You have to use the tamper to push the nuts into the blade. Don't be afraid to do it. You will not hurt the machine, in fact you are helping it do its job.
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Absolutely! This machine will pulverize anything! I was attempting to chop almonds and they turned to powder. :). I use mine for juicing veggies, it gets the pulp minuscule. Oh won't regret this purchase. Betty/New Braunfels, Texas
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I don't use the chocolate, but are you sure that it needs to be refrigerated? I don't have a jar here to check, but one of my nut butters doesn't need refrigeration, although I refrigerate it anyway after opening. In your situation, I wouldn't leave it out (if it needs refrigeration), but I'd put it in the microwave for about 30 seconds when I wanted to use it.
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I just read a review by some other customer about this product different brand "Compact Table Top Grinder -110volts 2 Ltrs". She has already bought and tried it for producing nut butter. I have copy pasted her question/comment. Since she has already bought it, You can probably ask her user experience. Normally, in my country we use this primarily for grinding soaked rice, lentils, beans and black gram etc. I bought this item to make nut butter for my raw food restaurant where we make our own almond butter. The most efficient way I have found to do this is to first process the nuts in a cuisanart until they are pretty fine, then add them to the stone grinder. We add almond oil for a smooth consistency. If you leave the top of and help it along with a spatula for the first five minutes and then let it go for another five. Another review said you shouldn't let it run for more than a half hour because the motor isn't that strong and it usually takes less than ten minutes to make about 4 cups of... Jennifer S. answered on October 10, 2013
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It could grind nuts into a powder or fine grist @ least. As for butter... I'm not surehow it would handle the addition of liquid??? You would then have to PRESS the butter down and into the shoot.
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I haven't tried to make peanut or almond butter with it, because I use my food processor. But I don't think you should make nut butters with it, because you're not supposed to leave the nutribullet running for more than a minute, and it takes about 12 minutes to make smooth nut butters. Hope that helps!
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I've made a nut "cream" with soaked cashews and the soaking liquid, with good results. I use my food processor for nut butters, and wouldn't even try it in this blender. I think that it wouldn't work well and it looks like it would be a pain to scrape a nut butter out of ANY blender. UPDATE: I decided to try it myself. This blender had no problems being adequately powered for the job. The cashew butter that I made turned out much smoother and creamier than with my food processor. I did need to add water so that it would blend without my scraping the sides every few seconds. But when I refrigerate it, it will be solid enough.
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I've tried but it comes out really dry, more like an almond flour kind of thing, by putting that powder into a food processor you see the oil that barely starts coming out. Someone has suggested to add oil to it but that is not the answer, I am still researching the right way of doing it and I will post it as soon as I do find out. The machine at Whole Foods makes it really easy and almonds go in without oil and they are not soaked as I have seen the machine being loaded with dry almonds they keep in a big plastic bag inside a box and they look pretty dry to me.
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I have not used it to make peanut butter from raw nuts, but it did puree dried figs (quartered and soaked in Marsala) very nicely. It should work on nuts.
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Yes. I made almond butter and chocolate. Like the first responder says, it's best to grind ingredients with a food processor or a coffee grinder first. The almond butter came out fine. When left a few days, a lot of oil came to the top.
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I have made peanut butter in it but have not tried almonds. Works great for peanut butter! Hope this helps!
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I'm sure you could, We made chocolate and it turned out very smooth, Nut butter would probably turn out good. You would probably want to pre-grind the nuts a little but cause large pieces can bind the machine up. the texture you get would probably be close to nuttella as opposed to peanut butter.
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Yes you can and no oil! Go to google. Type in myfrugaladventures.com/.../easy-homemade-almond-butter It tells you how to what to and enjoy.
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I use a small amount of butter. Small amount of oil works well. Dry not so much.
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I would not use this grinder to make nut butters. (I make my own nut butters all of the time, in my 14 c. Cuisinart Food processor, which does an amazing job. In my experience, you need at least a 7 cup food proc. to make any nut butter). This little grinder is not meant for the motor to be running for as long as it takes to make nut butter.
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No I have never used it to make nut butters however I've used the whip attachment to make mayonnaise? I would think you would use the multi-purpose blade to break up the nuts to a paste, then may be use the mincer or something to smooth it out? Probably would help to use a tall narrow vessel such as the 600 mL beaker.
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Won't be dry without butter. We have a vegan that eats it dry and is very happy. Don't think you want to use butter as your oil for popping the corn. Someone better versed in this should answer though.
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I'm reading these questions, because I've received this item as a much-wanted gift. (I'm thrilled!) And, coincidentally, I've just read an interesting series of posts about using a pestle and mortar for making nut butters on another site. See link. (I hope it's OK to post it.) Look for the comment and answers from a poster named Nablusiya. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/796482?page=all