Just to see, I tried making almond flour in my Kitchen Aid brand food processor
The dark, on the top, is the almond ‘flour’ (it’s more a cornmeal texture) that I made in my food processor with the standard metal knife blade, the bottom lighter flour (because it’s been in my freezer) is what my friend and I made in her Vitamix. I honestly am pretty pleased with my food-processor for making this almond flour. With the Vitamix we had to process the almonds at just the right speed, about one cup at a time. In my food processor I filled the bowl about 2/3 full and just let it whir for a few minutes. My food processor almond flour is a little more coarse than what the Vitamix did, but it worked for us.
My food processor didn’t make almond butter out of just the almonds (the Vitamix can), so I added about a tablespoon of coconut oil. It did make a ‘crunchy’ almond butter that we love with the coconut oil. About one tablespoon to 4 cups of almonds. We used the soaked then dehydrated almonds that I did a few weeks back.
No doubt the Vitamix would make better smoothies, but I’m just fine with sticking with my food processor now. That seems almost like blasphemy with home cooks; I hear about how much everyone loves their Vitamix all the time. Am I the only one who thinks that maybe a Vitamix isn’t worth the price? Or do you love yours to death?
More food processor food (not to be confused with processed food ~grin~):
I agree totally with you! I just used my blender and it was fine. next time I will try the food processor. I may blanch my own almonds first for a little finer flour. though. I am looking forward to baking again!! With this flour and zylitol, there isn’t anything I can’t make! Cranberry bread here I come!!!
Ok, so as I’m reading through your recipies I say to myself “Hey, why can’t I just make almond flour in my Vitamix” BUT now that I see this I’m wondering how you prevent almond butter. Is the almond flour usually clumpy and moist? Maybe I’ll buy some almond flour so I have something to go off of.
A word about my Vitamix (since you asked;-) I do really love my Vitamix, but I think you have to use it often to really make it worth the investment. I bought the flour canister thingy for mine and I make all our flour in it BUT I’m not convinced this is the best way to make flour. I would still love the Jupiter mill for that, but you can’t have everything and this was our compromise. If I use the Vitamix three times a day I’m pretty happy with that, sometimes we only use it for our kefir smoothies though. I don’t have a food processor, when we got the Vitamix I got rid of a lot of other appliances, it felt good. Don’t know if that answers your question, its different for everyone I guess. For me it was worth it.