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Mori-Nu Tofu, Silken Style, Extra Firm, 12.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 12) |  | Brand: Mori-Nu
Category: Grocery
List Price: $23.52
Buy New: $17.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 4517
Number Of Items: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 6.3 x 4.4
UPC: 085696608051
EAN: 0085696608051
ASIN: B000LKZ86K
Release Date: November 13, 2006
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| Features:
| • | Pack of twelve, 12.3-ounce boxes(total of 147.6-ounces) | | • | Low Fat and Cholesterol free | | • | Contains no preservatives and no irradiation | | • | Packaging locks out light, oxygen and microorganisms |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good Shelf-Stable Tofu May 8, 2010
Lynrie (Dallas, Texas)
I read other's reviews before I purchased AND I'm glad I did buy it! This tofu is neither extra firm nor too soft, so it's very versatile in different recipes. I've made yummy eggless tuna-egg salad and Asian spicy dish that my teenager wants again. Wasn't sure how tofu would go over with the kids, so this was great feedback. Being able to have a shelf stable product readily available in the pantry makes it easier to make healthy choices rather than hitting the fast food joint. Too tempting and costly when you have growing teenagers around.
I believe I'll reorder this exact same product when the time comes. Venturing back to tofu is to bolster my healthier diet requirements. The helpful hints provided by other reviewers made this choice toward healthier eating easier. I'm about to scour the internet for some tofu ice cream and smoothie recipes.
Perfect food. April 21, 2010
Patricia Anderson (New York, NY, US)
Silken style, extra firm Mori-Nu tofu is perfect for my chocolate truffle recipe and it is perfectly priced. I have used this product for some six years now, perfecting my recipe. Recently I experienced resistance of the vegetable grocers to carry the product so I went on line and found it at Amazon.com. I now have the product delivered free directly to my door and I know it will always be available. This is important when one is addicted to chocolate truffles.Mori-Nu Tofu, Silken Style, Extra Firm, 12.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 12)
 not very firm .... January 30, 2010
cherrycake
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm all for the idea tofu that's easy to store, so I tried this. But it isn't anywhere close to the texture I think of as Firm or Extra Firm! I found myself checking the label over and over to see that it was "extra firm" not "soft". I wonder how soft the "soft" style must be! I'm thinking pudding.
It doesn't hold up well for stir fry or any non-blended use, such as marinating slabs for baking, or slabs for sandwiches. I am used to, and prefer, the tofu that comes floating in water, which has a much more solid form and can be cut into cubes and pieces that survive the cooking process.
This stuff will not hold it's shape and is "flimsy". It falls apart very easily, into pieces, very much like the texture of scrambled eggs, soft scrambled eggs! It's very "wet", not very dense, much too much like a cube of cream pie in it's creaminess, than like a hunk of cheese, which would hold it's shape.
It's nutritious and tasty (it's tofu, takes on the flavors of what you add), but has none of the slight sourness and shape-holding power of a good, fresh tofu. If you haven't had anything else, you might love this, but knowing what it could be, I'm disappointed with the consistency and texture.
great for egg/dairy allergies December 16, 2009
JWoolman (Indiana USA)
I'm allergic to dairy and egg. I've been using tofu for many years in no-egg egg salad (use regular egg salad recipe, just use mashed tofu instead of chopped egg) and dips and puddings. For no-egg egg salad, you can just use a fork to mash it up. Let it chill an hour or two for best flavor.
For dips - just use any dip recipe or mix. A box of Mori-Nu will work fine for a mix envelope, just blend until creamy (and the silken-style extra firm type does cream up well this way, if you want something all-purpose) and add some oil and lemon or lime juice to substitute for sour cream. If you want, you can follow instructions and actually slowly pour the oil in while blending, but just dumping it in works also. You can try without oil if you want, but I like the oil. Let it chill for at least an hour or so. If you think the flavor is too intense, you can just use part of another package to get the volume you want, but nobody's ever complained about the 12 oz box method.
The consistency of tofu is great for really instant pudding from any junky pudding mix you like (who says tofu has to be healthy?!?) or your own recipe for whatever you usually add to milk to make pudding. I look for mixes that don't have dairy myself. If desperate, I'll look for recipes... But all you really need to do is blend the tofu with the mix and voilà - it's pudding. Chill for a while, but it tastes pretty good even just out of the blender. Don't know how well it freezes for "pudding pops", haven't tried, but I've seen a recipe for tofu fudgsicles based on a tofu chocolate mousse recipe (using firm or extra firm silken tofu, as is available here), so it probably works fine. You might need to add some sweetener to taste if you don't think it's decadent enough. This is much easier than trying to make soy milk work...
Thin strips of tofu cooked in a pan with soy sauce (or baked with any sauce) are pretty good also if you're into cooking. Tofu soaks up whatever flavors you toss at it, given sufficient time and encouragement. The instructions I have for baking are to bake for 30 min until "firm but not tough", turning half way through, but I've only personally tried the pan method. I've seen recipes for "veggie bacon" using tofu and nutritional yeast (such as Red Star), liquid smoke, and oil.
You also can use tofu as the base for quick ice cream, just mix the box with frozen fruit, sweetener to taste, and blend. It can be used for regular smoothies also, of course. Look for recipes at vegan hangouts for both fancier ice cream recipes (often combining with soy milk, although I wonder if coconut milk would work well) and smoothie recipes.
There are also recipes for pumpkin pie using blended tofu instead of dairy. You might need to add some oil to fatten up the tofu a bit.
The Mori-Nu boxes are really handy since they don't take up refrigerator space and can be always available. The case price is much, much cheaper than at my local grocery store for individual boxes. I just wish Amazon would give an expiration date for current stock (or at least a no-earlier-than expiration date), as some other sources are now doing.
Hard to find locally! July 20, 2009
L. Knights (Silicon Valley)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are so many kinds of tofu and my local Whole Foods doesn't carry them all, like for instance they carry Silken Firm but not Silken Extra Firm. In a pinch most recipes that call for Extra Firm can take Firm instead, but it's so convenient to buy a case from Amazon and it's about the same price so might as well get the exact right kind. If you're looking for ways to use up your Silken Extra Firm tofu, try the blog of Bryanna Clark Grogan, which contains a fabulous recipe for vegan Boursin style cheese spread and a bunch of other stuff, or try some of her cookbooks here on Amazon. Being obsessed with Bryanna's recipes is really why my bf and I went through a case and a half of extra firm silken tofu in just a few months and every recipe of hers we've tried is fabulous.
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