 Today we're making homemade almond butter in our Vitamix. No added oil and we're starting with raw almonds and this is like nothing you can get in the store. It's 100% almonds and 100% of the almonds. This is one of those recipes where you're gonna say, I will never, ever, ever buy store-bought again. It's also one of those where you're gonna share with your friends and they're gonna say, What? How did you do that? You're gonna say, what? Made it in Vitamix. Shalvin Lennygill, show me how to do it. Alright, here we go. Let's get started. We're gonna use the 64 ounce low profile container that came with our Vitamix A3500. We're gonna start with four cups of raw almonds, spread it out on a cookie sheet. We're gonna bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. That's about 175 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Not a minute more, not a minute less. And about halfway through, we'll flip them and just do your best here. Just kind of shake them around. After 10 total minutes have passed, take the almonds out of the oven, remove the almonds from the cookie sheet, put them in a separate bowl or something, and let them cool. This is important. They'll keep cooking if they sit on the cookie sheet and we don't want almond butter tasting like burnt almonds. We want to let them cool back down to room temperature. So let them sit on the counter for an hour or if you want to move things along, stick them in the fridge for 15 minutes because they're gonna get pretty warm again when we put them back into the container and blend. And we want to make sure things don't get too hot. Alright, so we'll add all the almonds into the Vitamix container. Of course, we'll secure the lid, grab the tamper, and get ready to blend. You can use the nut butter setting if you have one or just start on variable speed 1 and quickly ramp up to 10. So we're gonna use the tamper to push the nuts from the corners down into the blade and you're gonna hear a high-pitched chugging noise and that's totally normal. Your Vitamix is built to do this as long as you're on variable speed 10. High speed, the highest speed it can go, we're good. Remember, this is a more challenging method. We're starting with raw almonds and we're not adding any oil. If you want to make it a little easier for yourself, you can start with roasted almonds or you can add a half a cup of flavorless oil. That'll make it easier and take fewer minutes to burn these almonds into almond butter. So we're gonna blend and we're gonna tamp and we're gonna push everything down and if you get tired or simply want to see your progress, totally cool, stop and take a look. Now, don't be discouraged if it's not creamy yet. It'll get there. And you can always take a spatula on the sides if you want to get kind of some of those pieces that the tamper didn't pick up. Remember how I said to make sure that your nuts cool down back to room temperature? Well, we actually didn't do that. So that's why Shalva brought out the hot mitt. We didn't wait long enough. And if it's still not creamy enough, run it for another minute or two. Alright, after about six to seven to eight, maybe nine minutes altogether, you're gonna have creamy, homemade, delicious, like the best almond butter that you've ever had. It's like, you just have to try it. You have to and share it, tell everyone. Clean up is easy and actually pretty rewarding. There are three steps. One, grab some frozen fruit and some sort of liquid. We're using almond milk. Throw it in your Vitamix and make yourself a smoothie. These are the best smoothies ever with homemade almond butter. Delicious. Step two, standard cleaning cycle. Warm water, a couple of drops of soap, 30 seconds or the cleaning program. And then step three, take a scrub brush and just get any of the nut butter that didn't get off. And if you want to go the extra mile here, run one more cleaning cycle. Enjoy your creamy, delicious almond butter on toast or fruit like banana or apple or just out of a spoon. It's just that every time we make this, I say, well, we're never going back. How could we ever get store bought again? And I really think this is the last time. And guys, subscribe to our channel if you haven't already hit that bell to get notified. And if you appreciate videos like this, hit that thumbs up. Thank you so much for watching and we will see you in the next one. Oh, by the way, we made this four days ago and this is all that's left.