ANyone use this for making nut butter without adding oil? How'd it do? Thanks!
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Yes I have. I make almond butter. I takes a lot longer without oil, so the second time I uses a little almond oil and it was much better. The third time I made it I used a little almond oil and a little melted coconut oil. omg! it is GREAT.
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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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Yes, I make almond and cashew butters all the time on this machine, using no added oils. Simply put whole nuts, turn machine on, and let it go. I stop mine every few mins, let it rest for a min or so, and then turn it back on. I do NOT add any oil. Be patient...you'll think it's not going to turn out, but keep the machine running and it will. The cashew butter in particular is fantastic.
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It works great. I make peanut and almond butters all the time w/o adding oil. It takes a while - between 5 and 10 minutes depending on the nuts and their temperature. As the nuts are chopped, they warm up slightly, their oil thinning. At first a ball of "ground" nuts forms and rolls around inside the container. After a little while it will get smoother and smoother. When there is a homogenous "non-moving" puddle in the bottom. You're done.
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Yes you can and no oil! Go to google. Type in myfrugaladventures.com/.../easy-homemade-almond-butterIt tells you how to what to and enjoy.
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I've used Orville Redenbacher's butter flavoured oil, and some shake-on stuff that I bought at WalMart, and it's fine. I haven't experimented much as I prefer just to pop the corn and add butter and salt after it's popped.
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I don't understand why people say it takes so long. I make peanut, cashew and almond butters, and it only takes about 2 minutes! I probably put in about 2 cups of nuts. I heard that you need to add oil, but I don't find that to be true. Just keep running and it will release enough oil. Although if you're going to store in the fridge, you might want to add just a TINY bit of oil to help keep it spreadable when cold.
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With the Tribest SW-2000-B Slow Star Juicer you use the mincing attachment to make nut butters. The mincing attachment uses the auger and not the screen. When you run nuts through the machine with the mincing attachment on, the nuts will come out almost powdery the first time through. You may want to run the nut ingredients through up to 5 times to get a creamy consistency. The more you run the nut mixture through, the creamery it gets. You also may want to add a little neutral tasting oil to you nut butter to increase the creaminess. Many commercial nut butters have added oil. The oil can be added when the nuts go through the machine or after you are done running the nuts through the machine. I hope this information helps you. VeggieSensations
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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 almond butter. 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... » Read More 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 almond butter. « Show Less
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I've left it on for about 15 minutes and had no issue with making peanut butter and cashew butter. It does get warm but it does its job well.
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You can. I crushed almonds with this for a recipe. This will make nut butter but you have to put the nuts through the machine again and again to get a better consistency.
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Yes.. I made almond butter today. It takes probably 10 minutes or so. It first grinds to a powder then you have to scrape and blend more, scrape and blend more and continue. I let it rest after a while but it never smelled hot. After a while you will begin to see the oil appear. Continue a few more times.. Perfect almond butter. Be patient.
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I never used oil instead I used smartbalance and put popcorn salt with that and it's delicious. You may want to put the butter on top just as it starts to pop. This popper doesn't get as hot as stir crazy. However because of that the popcorn isn't as hard. Good luck. Try using smartbalance and see if you like it. Use a lot.
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You don't need anything else. Just follow the instruction. I only did 2 nut butters. I use it mostly for single serving of smoothies
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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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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
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I have blended peanut and almonds with water into a very fine drink. If you don't have enough water the blender will overheat and shut off. I have not been able to make pure nut butter, but can finely chop nuts with my muffin batter or green drinks.
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I always use melted butter and it comes out great. Never actually used oil, because I can usually taste it in baked things.
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I use it every other day to make Pommogranate juice. I also tried other berries like Blue-, Black- or Rasberry. But it didn't work outo. I never tried any nut butters. Sorry Rainer
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Very affordable and so far it has worked just as good as the high priced ones. I have not made nut butter yet but I think it is capable of making really good nut butter. After watching YouTube videos of the vitamix and blendtec I came to the conclusion that all of them are noisey. I like that it has the same settings as the blendtec. I am satisfied with my purchase and I think that you would be too.
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I have made almond butters that are amazing. I did have to add oil, just as with a Vitamix. Almonds are hard, and more difficult to process than other nuts. I tried soaking raw almonds and it did not work. just became a gooey mess which I threw out. With the roasted almonds I find I have to pulse manually and use the stick, and it takes longer than the advertised minute. But, end result is great. Cleaning is easy. warm water a drop of dish soap and use the cleaning program. Then again with just warm water.