Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Update 7/25/20 I perfected my almond milk recipe using my vitamix instead of this, just thought I’d share: 3 cups of blanched almond slivers (sincerely nuts brand from amazon) About 7- 8 cups or so of water Blend on high for 18 seconds. Filter through kitchenwize nut milk filter (also from amazon with great customer service btw) That’s it. Three minutes or so later you have fresh creamier than almond cow almond milk with more nutrients than this piece of garbage gives you. Bonus: I dehydrate my almond pulp as it’s pretty finely ground. (I use a large commercial cabellas dehydrator but you can get a cheap one on amazon for I think under $50.) Then I use my vitamix to blend it back into almond flour. I use it in baked goods. I pretty much don’t have to buy almond flour anymore as it provides plenty for me to use by making a few batches of almond milk a week. It’s a win win. In the end either the almond milk is free or the almond flour. You decide. Update 2/5/20 Today I decided to attempt making blanched almond milk (I get sincerely nuts brand blanched almond slivers) in my Vitamix. I blended it for 15 seconds on setting 10 (yesterday I blended it for a minute or two and it was so ground up that the grit went through my filter so today I gave it another go with way lower blend time). Then I poured the result through my nut milk strainer I got from amazon made by kitchenwize. I ran it through like three times. All in all when including the blending and straining it took me probably three minutes to make 32 oz or almond milk. It is creamy and delicious and not gritty. Even the pulp is way more finely ground than the pulp from the almond cow in only 15 seconds which means that you’re getting more nutrition. You can get the cheap Vitamix for a few hundred or so (so not much more than this junk), and it still takes only a few minutes to make your milk, and it comes out creamier and more nutritious. I can’t recommend that route enough. I don’t have any experience with the current budget Vitamix but I’m going to guess that the high setting on that is probably going to produce about the sane result as the high setting on my accent series. I bought this on the Almond Cow website as they do not sell this on Amazon anymore. We had high hopes for this machine. We make Coconut milk and cashew milk quite frequently. Currently we use a Vitamix 3500 Ascent high powered blender to make our milk. The cashew milk (1:4 ratio cashews to water) from the Vitamix is rich and creamy without any filtering. The Coconut milk (1:1 ratio coconut shreds to water) requires filtering 3 times through a mesh strainer. It’s messy and time consuming. We were hoping the Almond cow would solve our filter issue. I first tried walnut milk in the Almond Cow. It was pretty thin and very bitter. I made a batch in my Vitamix and it was creamy and less bitter. So I decided to try coconut. I followed the recipe on Almond Cows website. The milk was so thin I could see through it for about 1/16 inch depth (cloudy pool water?). That was after running the cycle multiple times as previous reviewers have suggested. It did help thicken the milk slightly. This is probably slightly less thick than commercial milk. I don’t buy commercial milk specifically because the quality is so poor - nearly entirely all water and additives with little to no nutrition. I feel like this milk is nearly all water. That’s why the texture isn’t gritty, but also all you’re nutrition is left in the filter basket. The nuts don’t grind up finely so you know you’re not getting all the nutrition. I was not happy and will be sending it back to the manufacturer. By the way, I sent it back, to get a refund. It’s nice that they allow you to do that and I understand that you have to cover the return shipping but what they don’t tell you is that return shipping is outrageous. I had to pay $35 to send it back.. and that was the cheapest option. So now I’m just out that money. I feel like any legitimate company with good customer service should offer to cover return shipping for a customer who was legitimately dissatisfied with the end results of the product based off the claims they make.. but I guess not every company has good customer service. I’d think twice before trying this product because for us it ended up being a very costly and unsuccessful trial.