Oh, my, word! I will NEVER go back to cheesecloth to make my nut and hemp milks!
This Organic Cotton Nut Milk Bag is fantastic.
I kept waiting for it to pop a hole, because I squeeze and twist every last drop of liquid that I can when making homemade milks.
Not only does it not tear, but cleanup is a breeze. The seamless bottom is perfect.
It fits nicely in my pyrex bowl.
When finished draining and squeezing I simply hold it upside down over a container and let the large chunks fall out, then turn it inside out to let the rest of the particles fall into the bowl.
Then to clean, I run it under my kitchen sink faucet using the spray (on my faucet) with a drop of dishwashing liquid. I spray the reaming particles off then simply swish it around to clean, switching the faucet back to stream. No need to launder!
It dries very fast hanging over my oven handle.
The almond milk that I make using this bag is so extra creamy I can't believe I didn't buy it sooner.
Saying "Bye Bye" to cheesecloth for making homeade milk forever!
I'm buying another bag right now. I believe it's durability will last a long time - a great cost saving over cheesecloth.
Can't say enough good about it. (I hated, HATED using cheesecloth! Such a mess and hassle!)
I must say that I pop the skins off the almonds and one must always dump out the soaking water. Almonds are usually difficult for most people to digest because of an enzyme-inhibiting substance in their brown coating. Soaking or sprouting removes this inhibitor so that the enzymes secreted during digestion can do their job. I pop off the skins because I like the look and taste of the milk without them.

I used cheese cloth for years to make ghee, but it needs at least 3 layers to do a decent job. I saw the suggestion to use a nut milk bag on a "how to make ghee" website. I looked at a lot of bags before settling on this one. I liked the unseamed bottom, the organic cotton and the size. I have only used it once so far but it worked well, washed easily under hot water in the sink and the opening was large enough to roll down and put in a sieve. I am very happy with this nut milk (ghee) bag.

I am reviewing the nut milk bag for use in draining the whey from homemade yogurt. I bought the bag because I was feeling guilty about using coffee filters to strain my yogurt and wanted something reusable for this purpose. I chose this bag because it is organic, gets good reviews (albeit only for nut milk), and because the product description stated that it is "durable [with a] no seam bottom so the hem won't burst," so I thought this might also expedite the whey draining process.

Firstly--while there is no stitching on the bottom that will burst--there is stitching on the sides that isn't sewn tightly enough; little amounts of yogurt come through when pressure is applied to the bag. Fine, so I couldn't squeeze it to make the drawing process gp faster, but I decided I could still use it as a passive drainer and let the whey drain it on its own time.

This leads to the second problem: the yogurt never drains fully. When I use coffee filters to drain my yogurt I usually only need to let it sit for three - four hours and when I pick up the filter and turn it upside down over my yogurt storage jar it slides clean off and all yogurt goes in the jar. There is no such efficiency with the nut milk bag; I've tried leaving the yogurt to drain for 24 hours, but the cloth is still saturated with whey. When I turn the bag upside down over my yogurt storage jar only about 75% of the yogurt plops into the jar. If I spend 10 minutes squeezing the now upside down, inverted bag from the bottom to the top I can maybe get another 10% if I (and this includes all the whey that was soaked into the fabric :/). If I then get a rubber spatula and spend aN additional 10 minute's scraping and scraping and scraping - I might get 10% mode. Essentially what takes 30 second with a coffee filter becomes a 20-30 minutes ordeal to get the bulk of the yogurt out of the bag - keeping in mind I never get that last 5%. Assuming I have 20-30 minutes this isn't the worst, even though I make yogurt once per week (52 weeks x 5% = 260% or approximately 2.5 jars of yogurt every year). If I don't have that kind of time, and only do some moderate squeezing and scraping I will loose closer to 15% per week, which is just shy of eight jars lost per year.

In the end, I think it is more wasteful for the planet if I am wasting milk (extra containers for the milk, shipping those extra containers, and more importantly - all that goes into getting the cow to produce milk) versus composting one unbleached coffee filter made from recycled paper.

So - to sum up the bag's review for use in draining yogurt, it is:
- More time-consuming
- More wasteful
- Very frustrating

Just don't.

Almond pulp pushed through the seam the first time I used it. I don't expect the seam to hold forever, but I used one of a different brand regularly for a couple years before that happened. Maybe I just got a dud. I don't even know how to return things from internet purchases, so I'm just going to have to buy another one of a different brand. Boo.

Oh My!!! What an incredible, wonderful product!!!! Prior to purchasing this bag I was using cheesecloth or just a strainer. The cheesecloth was a pain using, always bunching up and sliding down into the strainer, and was expensive to buy. Using either the cheesecloth or the strainer let sediment in the milk.....just didn't strain well. This bag is so awesome. Easy to pour into. Easy to tie. Easy to squeeze out. Organic Cotton. Washable and reusable. And best of all.......Nothing in my milk, but milk! Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful product. I've been telling everyone about it!