Part 5: ‘DIY Oat Milk Versus the Eco-geddon of Shop-bought Plant Milk’ – An Anarchist’s Cookbook
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2022-03-11

Ramblinactivist 2022/8, 11th March 2022.

Contemporary ‘consumer’ veganism has an over-packaged/over-priced credibility issue. This is especially true of plant-based milks, and their impact compared to ‘DIY’ options. In this post I explore how you can avoid this by making your own oat milk – cheaply, easily, and with minimal waste.

In this part I outline how to make one of the simplest plant milks – oat milk. It is SO simple to make oat milk. For that reason most of this part will be about the comparison between ‘DIY’ and buying from a shop, rather than actually making oat milk. That’s precisely because plant milk is one of those products that exposes so many of the internal contradictions that plague the modern ‘consumer vegan’ diet.

To view the text of post which explains the recipe in detail, or to download the PDF version, goto:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/aac/posts/05/index.shtml

You can find out more about ‘An Anarchist’s Cookbook’ – Paul Mobbs’ blog on food, nutrition, and low impact lifestyles outside the expectations of ‘consumer society’ – here:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/aac/index.shtml

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00:00 Opening titles
00:30 Introduction
02:12 The mechanics 7 economics of oat milk
03:31 Step 1 – Select your oats
04:25 Step 2 – Soak the oats
05:12 Step 3A – Drain and blend – using a blender
05:43 Step 3B – Drain and blend – using a hand masher
06:03 Step 4 – Strain-off the milk
06:47 Step 5 – Dilute the milk
07:07 Step 6 – Additives
07:45 Freezing oat milk
08:15 Packaging waste & plant milks
10:31 Conclusion
11:33 Further information/credits