Pure Joy Planet Living Food Bag Nut Milk

I bought this bag as a replacement cheese cloth. The first thing I did with it was make paneer out of cottage cheese. Works perfectly. Then I started making hashbrowns with the bag. Grate a potato then strain it with the bag to remove excess water. I notice that once I did this, the holes became much bigger. Probably too big to strain nut-milk, but that was okay with me. After about four months of this, I ripped a small hole in the bag. It was still usable. Next, I started using it to brew loose leaf teas. Loose tea leaves are better quality and price then tea-bags, but they are a pain to brew. Either throw them into hot water and fish them out afterward or use a metal strainer, but the strainer doesn't let the tea leaves "breath". The nut-bag fixes both problems. Just put some loose tea leaves in the bag and brew normally. Then dump the leaves out later. It was at this point the bag started to discolor brown from the tea leaves (but only because I let the leaves dry in the bag), but was still usable. And because it is so easy to clean, I wasn't worry about it the brown color being bacteria or dirt. Just run the bag under some hot water while gently scrubbing with a soapy sponge. Then rinse clean.I started cooking dumplings. Traditionally, I would put cabbage between the dumplings and the metal steamer basket to keep the dumplings from sticking, but I found that the nut-bag works just as well. I wasn't sure if it could handle the high heat of a steamer, but I ended up cooking more then twenty batches of dumplings without a problem. I only threw it out because I melted part of the bag on a hot pan. I'm going to buy a new one or two.My conclusion: Cheap price, multiple uses (though it becomes useless for nut-milk making if used for anything else, but just buy two), easy to clean, and very durable.Every kitchen needs one of these bags. They are one of them most useful items I have ever bought.

It was easy to use, and worked better than any nut bag I have purchased.

Although this is referred to as a "Nut-Milk Bag," I have been using it solely for rice milk with great success. Before this product, I had never made my own nondairy milk, although I have drank store-bought almond & soy milk for years, because I thought the process would be intimidating and not worth the hassle. I was wrong! With this bag, I have made delicious, creamy brown rice milk. Best of all, I no longer have to worry about the negative health consequences of things like processed oils and carrageenan like you do with store-bought milk. I was afraid I'd make this bag rip by squeezing too hard, but it seems very durable. It really keeps the "pulp" out and is very easy to clean afterward. I also love that the "pulp" doesn't have to go to waste, like I imagine it does in the factories that produce nondairy milk. At least with brown rice milk, I am left over with basically a cream-of-wheat or oat bran-texture porridge that I love re-heating with a pinch of sea salt.I'm looking forward to trying more "exotic" milks than I can find in the store, like quinoa-rice milk, walnut milk, and red bean-rice milk. :) Thanks, Elaina Love!

So I bought this bag in May 2013. It's now Nov 2013 and the bag is now loosing integrity to the point that I need to buy another bag. This was my first nut bag after getting sick of cheesecloth, so I can't compare to other nut bags. I think overall this nut bag has worked very well for me. I make nut milk about every 2-3 days, so that is a LOT of straining in 6 months. The bag is easy to clean after each use, just rinse out all the pulp, squirt it with a little soap, rinse and hang to dry. The bag itself doesn't strain as well as cheesecloth, and so with my go to hemp milk, even with first use of this bag there is some "sediment" that gets through. This hasn't bothered me since the small amount of texture doesn't faze me. Now that I'm considering new bags however, I may try something new just to see if I can get a finer straining bag. Overall though, it is a good, easy to clean and convenient nut bag.Update 12/11/13: I have now purchased a second nut bag which has much finer straining capabilities though not the convenient shape of this bag. Since fine straining is more important than shape, I won't be purchasing this particular bag again. For those that are interested my new bag is "#1 Rated Nut Milk Bag" sold by Zimtal.

I've always wanted to make my own non-dairy milks at home and this little bag has made it super easy, along with my new blender. The first time I tried making almond milk I only had a cheese cloth, which worked to an extent but this bag just made everything easier. The cheese cloth was hard to control, the Amazing Nut-Milk bag is a fixed shape making pouring the unfiltered mixture easy. The cheese cloth ripped while I was straining, maybe I don't know my own strength, but I was using the same pressure on the nut-milk bag as the cheese cloth and I had no worries. The cheese cloth was rather difficult to clean, but this bag was fairly painless: invert, dump almond meal contents, rinse, add drop of soap, scrub, air dry. And. Done. I've only used this once but I'm happy with the purchase, I suppose only time will tell how well it stands up to multiple uses. Oh, also, turn the bag inside outside out like other have mentioned as it prevents meal sticking to the seam, but as another reviewer mentioned, it appears that it's suppose to be this way to begin with. Happy straining!