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[camwyn]

Bought flaxseed a while ago with the intention of grinding it to use in baked goods. Haven't had the chance so far, but the other day I found a flaxmilk recipe that involved soaking the seeds overnight, then draining off the super goopy gel before grinding. Ooh, I thought, that sounds like a plan.

The process only works properly if you have a high speed blender, I think. Even having drained the gel off before rinsing the seeds several times, I wound up with a bottle of flaxmilk that has the consistency of ... I'm not sure. But it's pretty damn mucilaginous. The recipe said to only blend the seeds for ten to twenty seconds or you'd get slimy again no matter how much soaking you did... me, I have a Ninja blender, not a Vitamix, so I had to run it for more than a minute to actually break up the seeds.

This was a terrible idea and I am not doing it again. Homemade oat milk doesn't do this.

Comments

mucilaginous!

[8hyenas]

I use the goopy gel as an egg substitute in recipes, so I can only imagine. Plop!

Re: mucilaginous!

[camwyn]

I know, right? The original reason I bought the flaxseed was to take the place of egg as a binder in a vegetarian/vegan energy bar recipe (disclaimer: I am neither vegetarian nor vegan but I do like finding excuses to make food with chickpeas or other legumes). I still have plenty of the seeds, so I can do that in future, but right now I've got a quart bottle with a ridiculous amount of super goopy 'milk' and I don't feel comfortable wasting it. It'll be added to my coffee rather than drunk directly, so it'll get used over time, but... yeah. If I wanted that level of cohesiveness in my nondairy substitutes I'd just have made oat milk and dumped in a quarter teaspoon of xanthan gum. At least the taste would work for me.

(Side note, I did save the remaining flax pulp and stirred about a tablespoon of it into my channa masala lunch yesterday. It worked out nicely. I still have pulp to use up but at least there's that.)

[jessikast]

I've started trying the whole "flaxseed hair gel" thing. I think I boiled them too long the first time because it was VERY VERY thick and also looked exactly like snot.

Worked a treat, though!