Alright this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Today we're here with the Omega VERT juicer or VRT model 330.
It is my current favorite juicer right now and most people are aware that it does juice
and it juices very well from fruits and vegetables and leafy greens and even wheatgrass.
It does an amazing job.
But what you might not be familiar with is that it does have a couple other features.
So for example the HUROM Juicer which is made in the same factory as the Omega VRT and you
can check one of their videos regarding the HUROM.
I definitely recommend the Omega VERT over the HUROM but there's a, there's a HUROM video
that shows making soymilk.
So we have so, so I'm going to show you how to make soy milk in the Omega VERT juicer.
So we have some soybeans here and also we're going to show you how to make almond milk
and my favorite the coconut milk.
So first we're going to go ahead and make coconut milk.
Now, it's really easy, most people think a coconut milk is when you open a coconut and
you pour out the liquid, they think that's the milk.
No, no, no, that's not the milk.
So in, let's see, I'm going to use I have a special coconut opening tool here I'm going
to open the coconut with.
I just pop it through the eyes and most people think that the milk as I said is the water
inside and you just heard that little pop and you want to hear that pop whenever you
open a coconut that means it's probably a good coconut.
It's like when you open up a can of coffee and it has that kind of seal.
So we just pop, we just basically pop two of the eyes out.
If you notice on here there's two eyes and a mouth, so this is the mouth and the eyes
always have the eyelids.
So I always pop out the mouth, that's the easiest and then one of the eyelids I go for.
So once you have two holes in there then you'll be able to easily pour out the coconut water
and you want the coconut water to be completely clear, you don't want it to be cloudy or milky
or anything.
If it’s cloudy or its milky then it's not good.
If you see things floating around in there then it's not good.
This coconut water looks very good and now, so now we just have the water but when they
make coconut milk in basically the pacific islands like Fiji and other places, they literally
take the coconut meat and basically squeeze it out.
What we're going to do is we're going to actually blend up the meat with this water and then
we're going to run it through the Omega VERT juicer.
So I open up the coconut, I just take a standard chef's knife and I don't take the blade end,
I take the back side.
You want to tap, tap, tap, while you're turning it tap.
It's going to, just about got it, right there.
Just about open up for you right in half.
You want to inspect the coconut and usually around the edges you want to make sure there's
no black like mold stuff growing and this does look like a good coconut.
I'm a coconut, or I'm a gadget guy so I love my gadgets.
Here's a special tool I got.
It'st just, specifically made for getting the meat out of the coconut.
So you'll literally just shove it in between the coconut husk and the meet and it does
take some strength here.
You push it back in there and you kind of turn it.
Put it in there and turn and it'll pop up the coconut meat in pieces.
So we're going to take these pieces and put it into our blender there.
Just going to pop out all of these pieces.
Yeah you've, people use knifes and things and I think that's really dangerous to get
the meat out.
So definitely tool like this.
But if you don't have a tool like this what I would do is I would take a knife and basically
cut lines in it and then basically pry it out.
Another way you could do it actually is you want to take like a plastic bag and put the
half, put the whole coconut in a plastic bag and then whack it while it's in a bag, maybe
even double bagged against the concrete or the sidewalk.
Then the coconut will just basically crack up into pieces.
So as you can see we got this out in chucks.
Now if you do get a little bit of this brown in there that's totally fine.
You just don't want any hard shell pieces in there.
So we're going to go ahead and put the rest of that in there.
As you can see now we now have a nice coconut bowl here.
We're going to do the other side.
If I can do this right might be able to get this out in one whole piece.
Oop, broke the shell.
Alright yeah, take a look at that, one whole piece of coconut.
So yeah we're going to basically tear this up into little pieces here.
Coconuts are really good for you, they're high in lauric acid, which is a medium chain
fatty acid.
It's shown to have antiviral and anti-fungal properties.
There's a big thing about coconut oil on taking coconut oil as a supplement or using coconut
oil.
I definitely think using coconut oil as a cooking oil is a lot better than any, something
like olive oil.
It has a higher flash point.
But it's best to get your coconut oil in its whole and natural form.
In here there's coconut oil and the fiber and all kinds of other nutrients in its complete
whole foods state and that's what we want to be eating, we want to be eating whole foods.
So we have this now and let's go ahead and blend this up really fast.
Alright so we just got done basically blending up the coconut water from the old mature coconut
and the coconut meat and you can kind of see the texture we're kind of going for.
You need to do this in the blender to kind of break it all up before putting it in the
juicer for best results.
So let’s go ahead and turn on this juicer and literally we're just going to take and
spoon out this mixture in the juicer, a little bit at a time.
You don't want to overload the juicer, you want to basically let it do its own thing
and you're going to see the pulp come out and check out that pulp come out.
But look at the older side that is completely white coconut milk.
Now this is the best milk that could make in my opinion.
It's the easiest because literally all you need to do is open up that coconut, take out
the water and the meat, blend it up a little bit and then put it right through the machine.
Look at that.
That's some nice, rich coconut milk.
Now we're going to see in a second, you can see we have some almonds and the soybeans
over there and we're going to make the soy milk and the almond milk.
The thing with soymilk is that we had to start that process basically last night.
You want to soak your almonds or your soybeans overnight before you actually use them in
the Omega VERT juicer.
So we soaked those overnight and then what happened was we poured off the soak water,
you don't want to use that soak water it has enzymes inhibitors which is not too good for
you to eat, then we basically poured out the soak water then added water, purified water
or filtered water to the mixture.
So in the ratio of basically one cup of nuts, of un-soaked nuts to three cups of water.
That's the ratio and you'll see that in one second.
The other thing is this coconut milk is 100% raw, no heat involved and when you do make
the soy milk now you're going to have to actually cook the soy milk that comes out because there
are still the enzyme inhibitors and trypsin inhibitors that we need to cook otherwise
we can't digest it.
That's another reason why I don't necessarily recommend making the soy milk it's so much
more difficult actually then the coconut milk.
The coconut milk tastes so much richer.
A lot of those, since this is all 100% coconut coming out, it's just so much thicker and
richer then the soy milk or the almond milk which I think is kind of, basically watered
down.
So let's, we're feeding the rest of the coconuts in there.
Now this pulp may, this pulp is like saw dust, it's like really, really dry.
Check out this milk it's nice and creamy.
So one whole brown coconut yielded us two cups of coconut milk.
So let me go ahead and taste that.
That's nice and rich coconut milk.
Alright, so you just saw how easy it is to make coconut milk with the Omega VERT juicer,
it's really easy, really fun.
So this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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