Jump down to tips for roasting nuts for nut butters. When almonds (and all other nuts) are roasted, natural oils are released, which makes for better-tasting, creamier nut butters. Related: Video tutorial: Vitamix Almond Butter: What to actually expect! How do you release the natural oils? You roast the nuts. By keeping the almonds raw, those natural oils inside the nut stay trapped and aren’t available to help turn the almonds into almond butter. You see, raw almonds have natural oils trapped inside of them. Natural oils that would be helpful for more efficiently processing the almond butter and making it more creamy.īut those natural oils are only helpful if they are released. Why? It is quite challenging to use raw nuts to make nut butters. Generally, you should avoid using raw nuts to make nut butters with your Vitamix. The Raw Almond Butter Fail: Avoid using raw nuts to make nut butters But assuming you don’t want to read another thousand words about Vitamix containers, we should move on.īecause as much as the container type is important, the state of the nuts you’re using matters even more. Of course, this is an oversimplification. To reiterate: Use a wet Vitamix container to make nut butters. But almonds in a wet container (with the help of a tamper) will get your almond butter. Think about it like this: almonds in a dry grains container will get your almond flour. This helps keep grains light and airy instead of heavy and clumpy. The Dry Grains container, however, is designed to push ingredients upwards and apart. The “wet” container pulls ingredients together. And those, just like smoothies, are all wet! As such, nut butters are best made in the normal, “wet” containers.
The best nut butters are thick and creamy. You may have been told the Dry Grains container is for nut butters. Picking nuts to use (easiest nuts to make into butter)ĭo not use a “dry blade” Vitamix container to make nut butters.Compared to nut butters with a food processor.Video: Almond butter in a wide container.Avoiding oils (the almond butter challenge).Buying roasted nuts (roasted vs dry-roasted).Making enough (minimum batch size by container).Nut Butters with a Vitamix: Avoid these 8 common mistakesġ8 tips for making nut butters (successfully) So do that! Make a batch of mixed nut butter first!īut if you want to get fancy we recommend starting with one of these two: Those pre-mixed nuts are so easy to turn into nut butter. If you take nothing away from this article, remember this: There’s no shame in making your first nut butter with a few cans of roasted, mixed nuts. Making your first nut butter (successfully) Use the table of contents to jump down to sections you need.Īnd return to the top to pick one of our nut butter recipes to try.
And then, we’ll go through 18 tips for doing it successfully. In this post, we’ll discuss common mistakes people make when trying to make nut butters in their Vitamix. With the right technique and right ingredients, you can do it. No matter which nut butter you want to make in your Vitamix, it’s not something you should not be afraid of doing. The peanut butters! The almond butter! The sunflower seed butter!
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