You don't. You find a market that carries the various tofu types, varieties and products that you enjoy and purchase them there. I'm sure you can google it and find many different ways to make it at home, all of which are complicated, take up lots of space and require time. If you put a dollar amount on your own time & labor I'm sure you will find tofu that someone else makes a better deal that doesn't trash your kitchen.
While I agree with Curtis that it's much easier to buy tofu, here's a tutorial for making you own: http://www.soya.be/how-to-make-tofu.php. It doesn't look like it's too challenging or time consuming, though I have no clue where to buy the calcium sulphate needed to coagulate the soy milk.
You can buy the supplies online or sometimes at the homebrew store if you want to. Tofu making is pretty involved if you want to make it from real soybeans, but it's pretty easy to make it fresh from soy milk. However, I agree with Curtis that it's easier to buy it - if you've got a good place to get it.
I have a tofu press at home as well as calcium sulphate and it's about as difficult to make as say, paneer (Indian cheese) if you've made that before. But it doesn't really improve on flavor that you'd get from the store.
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March 24, 2010
You don't. You find a market that carries the various tofu types, varieties and products that you enjoy and purchase them there. I'm sure you can google it and find many different ways to make it at home, all of which are complicated, take up lots of space and require time. If you put a dollar amount on your own time & labor I'm sure you will find tofu that someone else makes a better deal that doesn't trash your kitchen.
March 29, 2010
While I agree with Curtis that it's much easier to buy tofu, here's a tutorial for making you own: http://www.soya.be/how-to-make-tofu.php. It doesn't look like it's too challenging or time consuming, though I have no clue where to buy the calcium sulphate needed to coagulate the soy milk.
April 1, 2010
You can buy the supplies online or sometimes at the homebrew store if you want to. Tofu making is pretty involved if you want to make it from real soybeans, but it's pretty easy to make it fresh from soy milk. However, I agree with Curtis that it's easier to buy it - if you've got a good place to get it.
I have a tofu press at home as well as calcium sulphate and it's about as difficult to make as say, paneer (Indian cheese) if you've made that before. But it doesn't really improve on flavor that you'd get from the store.