SoyaJoy G5 8 in 1 Soy Milk, Soybean or Dried Beans, Almond Milk, Quinoa Milk, Nut Milk, Oat Milk, Cashew Milk | + Soups, Porridges, Hot Cocoa | Self-Cleaning

An amazing product. Have saved so much money making my own soy and nut milks. I fortify them with calcium carbonate powder. Thisbmachine is so easy to clean and learn how to use. No complicated directions. Love it!!

I had tried out another, less expensive soy milk maker. SoyJoy is worth the extra shekels. It' insulated layer means you can touch it during the making of the soy milk; it's warm rather than burning hot. It has a good spout and lip to help in pouring, and it doesn't spit out milk in the making. It is easy to clean - just make sure you do it immediately, and don't let the residue dry out. The taste is good - about what I'd expect for homemade soy milk. I don't know what they do to commercial milks, even the ones who's only ingredients are soy beans and water, and I probably don't want to know. I can make soy yogurt with it, and that is one of my primary uses of soy milk. I look forward to making tofu. SoyJoy G5 is attractive on the counter. I don't know that the LED time indicator is all that important, but it's there and it works. The buttons are easier to understand than those on other makers. I was able to get an extra year warranty for the unit after purchase - two years in total. Making your own soy milk is a huge savings, and you know your ingredients. Moreover, soy milk is getting harder to find. It seems like the war on soy has flooded the market with all the others (oat, almond, hemp, etc.) Soy has been a healthy staple in the diets of so many cultures for centuries. It guards against cancers. It provides complete protein. It has a much smaller water footprint than almonds.

Very solid, does the job 👏

Have had this for about a year and 4 months so far, and with use roughly every other day it is still going strong. Very happy with it. Not too hard to clean. Best cleaned right away once cooled slightly or rinsed, like with anything, but even if left out just a rinse to loosen it and come back a few minutes later works fine. I find it helpful to have a pull out sprayer at my sink so that I can spray the machine, but hold it such to avoid letting the electronic parts get wet. The instructions also suggest/show as much too. Flavor is great! I've used, with equivalent results, organic yellow soybeans from Nuts.com and Shiloh Farms organic yellow soybeans from Vitacost.com, plus I think there was a sampler that came with my unit (Soymerica I think non-gmo, but not organic IIRC). There are two water levels to adjust the resulting volume vs. thickness of milk produced. Truly, I don't really notice much of a difference, so I just fill between the lines and get about 1.25 to 1.5 quarts per batch. When straining, I do add a little more water and swirl it around the machine to get the last bits out (mostly okara pulp at this point), I include this in my net milk. I rinse then soak for a bunch of hours (say 4+ or so) or overnight and drain the beans before filling with the final water and making the milk, although the machine has options for unsoaked beans as well which I've used occasionally. I like the presoaked bean quality of milk better, but it's not a substantial difference. I have yet to try the other feature options, such as soups. After straining (filter was included), the nutritious and protein-rich (I read) "waste" product okara can be used to cook other dishes. I included it homemade granola regularly, and sometimes make gnocchi with it. There are a wealth of recipes on the web. Nothing needs to go to waste. The okara freezes well until you are ready to use it. Pretty much every batch I make the okara goes into the freezer first. For many years, I gave up on soy milk as the commercial ones like Silk especially used to bother my stomach, probably due to one of the fillers, and my guess would be the carrageenan. With this, I can drink as much soy milk as I like and my stomach is just fine since it's just soy and water. And presoaking/draining reduces/removes any bean-triggered gas (I forget offhand if that's a thing with soy as with other beans, but in any case I do not have any issues with the milk I make). Before getting this, I tried making soy milk manually a bunch of times. Didn't know machines existed - what a find! Anyone who has done it manually on the stove, knows that needs constant attention and a BIG pot to avoid spillage. With this machine, just press a button and walk away. There is a timer to know when it'll be ready, and it will beep for a minute to let you know it's done. It'll keep it warm while plugged in once done. I am able to watch TV/movies while it is running about 30 feet away with no walls in-between, but in a smaller space it could maybe be too loud I am guessing. It's not bad, IMO, much quieter than I'd expect, but not silent of course. It does have to go through brief cycles of grinding to do its thing, but those are muted. Nothing at all like those jet-powered blenders. More like an upgraded dishwasher which has sound dampening. At least similar to mine.

I have now made 6 batches of soymilk using this product. I have made soymilk the "old-fashioned" way (soak, blend, heat, squeeze) ever since I began making plant milks. I had no idea what having a soymilk maker would do for me in terms of saving my time and helping my cleanup. This is as simple as soaking the soybeans, rinsing and draining the soak water (the way you would anyway), putting the beans into the SoyaJoy and adding water up to the very easy-to-see line inside the carafe, and plugging it in. In 36 minutes, the maker heats and blends the beans and leaves me with the last step of pouring it into the milk bag and straining. I am no longer cleaning up my blender and standing at the stove stirring for 20-25 minutes. That alone is worth the price to me. Some additional thoughts: - when the batch is done, the maker will beep for a minute and then keep the milk warm for an hour. If you unplug and remove the top and immediately run just the stainless steel shaft (NOT the top where the electronics are) under hot water at the faucet, you will save yourself some cleanup of the ring that forms around the blender part at the top level of the milk. Same with the stem that holds the blades to the bottom. If you do leave it for the hour, I still suggest removing the top and immediately running it under the hot tap, but be prepared to use a dishcloth to remove what has dried to the shaft and blade stem underneath. - the okara (pulp) left over is some of the finest ground I have ever seen, and I have a high-speed blender. It is fine enough to use as is as additions to baked goods, child's playdough, or for drying. If you are into reusing the okara, you will be very pleased with the results; - the noise of the unit reminds me of an in-door icemaker/water dispenser in older refrigerators. It certainly is much quieter than a food processor or blender. It is not a constant noise, but when the unit is on, I recommend not being on a Zoom call in the same room. That being said, if I was, I would still be able to hear everything on the call very well; - If the machine has too many soybeans, it will put out an error code. Keep the manual handy to check if this is the one, and remove the excess beans and let the stem/top cool a bit before putting it back on, or else the cycle will take 49 minutes; - I have not yet had success with it in making firm tofu. I bought the SoyaJoy kit with the press and nigari, but I am obviously missing something with measurements (which is how I found out about the error code I listed above). So glad I bought this!