ChefWave Milkmade Soy Milk Maker – 6-in-1 Plant-Based Milk Machine for Almond, Oat, Soy, Cashew, Coconut & Macadamia – No Soaking, Auto-Clean, Delay Start, Glass Pitcher – White

I have used about 3 pounds of a five pound bag of dried soybeans making soy milk with this milk maker. I have been using it about 8 months and haven’t seen any signs of wearing out. I have saved at least the cost of this machine in the amount of plant milk I would have bought at the store during that time. I can’t use a nut milk bag because my hands get sore from squeezing it. I’m so thankful for this machine! Sure it’s not as nice as Silk brand soy milk, but it has two ingredients: soy and water. I have to shake the milk before I can use it because it still has sediment that sinks to the bottom. To me that’s a plus because I’m getting all of it, but I can see that being a problem if you want smooth texture. It’s great for oatmeal and soup. Not good for coffee. I make enough to last all week and store in wide mouth mason jars with pour spout lids. I also made cashew milk which was very creamy. This machine is noisy enough that i can’t hear the TV when watching in the next room, but the noisy part is very brief. The noise doesn’t bother me when I’m in the same room. The machine is very easy to clean. The lid of the mixing compartment comes off, and that part is easy to clean. The mixing blade is not as easy and has developed some buildup but I’m very consistent about cleaning it. The pitcher and lid are easy to clean. The waste water bin is hard because it has a weird shape and requires a skinny bottle brush to get it really clean. The water repository is easy to fill. I can’t use with my refrigerator water dispenser because the lid gets in the way. I figured out I can use my Keurig multi-cup water bin to fill it to the top in one go. I always use filtered water when making nut and soy milk. It fits nicely on my counter. I keep it next to my coffee maker.

The product does what it says. I appreciate very much that the device does all the work, from start to finish. You just need to throw the ingredients in, and the device heats, blends, dispenses and self-cleans. I also like that the device uses all of the ingredients, and doesn’t strain or waste anything. All of my drinks have been very smooth. You also do not need a lot of ingredients - the recommendation is only about one tablespoon of nuts per drink. Also what’s nice is you choose what to put in your drink - no chemicals, oils, artificial sweeteners, etc. You can use dates for sweetness, or probably other ingredients. The drinks come out very hot. I’ve only tried almond milk and cashew milk. The almond milk is pretty bland, but I may need to roast a little more or purchase roasted. I prefer the cashew milk; it has a little more creaminess and flavor. I add two dried dates to my drinks, which provides a little natural sweetness. The drinks aren't nearly as rich or creamy as whole dairy milk, so it’s going to take some time weaning my bf off of dairy milk, but I’m trying. I’ve been favoring the 10oz vs the 20oz as the 10oz uses proportionally more ingredients to water, so there is a little more flavor and creaminess. I have not verified this, but I believe the overflows a few people experience are due to overfilling the machine. There is a vent at the top of the blender, which mixes with hot water, so yea, it will overflow if there is too much stuff in there. Read the instructions. I’d like to buy this for my mom but I think it might take some convincing. She drinks Lactaid.

I purchased the ChefWave Milkmade Non-Dairy Milk Maker almost two years ago, and I have been absolutely thrilled with this machine. As someone who follows a plant-based diet, finding a convenient and efficient way to make non-dairy milk at home has always been a priority, and this machine has exceeded my expectations. I never felt like the store bought milks were worth the expensive cost--given these are all primarily water. First and foremost, the ChefWave Milkmade is incredibly easy to use. The intuitive design and user-friendly interface make it a breeze to create a wide variety of non-dairy milks. Whether I'm in the mood for almond milk, oat milk, or any other nut or seed milk, this machine can handle it all with ease. The Milkmade also saves me a significant amount of money in the long run. Store-bought non-dairy milks can be quite expensive, especially if you opt for organic or specialty varieties. With this machine, I can make my own fresh and delicious milk at a fraction of the cost, and I know exactly what goes into it—no added preservatives or artificial ingredients. I simply purchase organic raw almonds, soy beans and etc... Cleaning the Milkmade is a breeze as well, because it's self cleaning!!! In addition to its practicality and convenience, the ChefWave Milkmade has a sleek and modern design that looks great in my kitchen. It doesn't take up much counter space. I call the company and ordered extra glass pitchers. Overall, I couldn't be happier with my purchase of the ChefWave Milkmade Non-Dairy Milk Maker. It has become an essential appliance in my kitchen, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to enjoy fresh, homemade non-dairy milk with ease and convenience.

I bought this machine because I prefer to make nut milk at home to avoid the environmental problem of the packaging and transport of store bought nut milk. However, I find nut milk bags a pain in the neck. While the clean up of this machine is great, it has SEVERAL SMALL DRAWBACKS AND ONE MAJOR DEALBREAKER DRAWBACK and nobody should ever buy it: 1. While it is easy to clean and uses a minimal amount of nuts, that’s because it doesn’t actually extract the fiber from the milk. It just blends it for 8 to 12 minutes so the fiber is very fine. However, the milk is still a little gritty and if you have a great blender like a Vitamix, you can do the exact same thing without adding another machine to your countertop (and, eventually, landfills). 2. The machine uses hot water to steam/cook the nuts (probably to make them softer so they can be chopped more finely) so you have to plan ahead the night before if you want cold milk in the morning for a smoothie, cereal, etc. 3. The milk doesn’t taste great. It tastes thin and, like I said, gritty. 4. The machine comes with several removable smaller parts—a steam cap, a glass pitcher for the milk, a plastic water tank, a plastic bin for the cleaning cycle. I accidentally broke the steam cap while cleaning it soon after purchasing this. I contacted ChefWave and Amazon to get a replacement part (it’s a tiny little one-inch plastic and metal cap). ChefWave totally refused to help, saying they do not offer replacement parts and referring me to Amazon. Amazon could only offer a total replacement of the entire machine. Unbelievably wasteful and short-sighted for a company selling a product for which one of its main features is that it can offer people a more environmentally conscious way to get milk. Amazon was great and gave me a full refund but I regret buying this machine and feel terrible that it will be one more hunk of plastic junk persisting for hundreds of years. Feel like a total dumb-dumb. I should know by now that there are no short cuts and nothing you can buy that’s going to save the planet. Total fail on my part!

I originally bought a NuMilk machine, which I used for several months before looking for something better. The main problem with NuMilk is that it insists on curating what drinks you make. You have to buy very expensive packets and they are insanely expensive, and very restrictive in terms of what nut milks you can make. So after a ton of research I bought a Milkmade. I'm actually very happy with it. I've made lots and lots of nut milk now. I've made almond, cashew, soy, and blends with 2 different nuts from those three. I love the result! It's a nuttier, better tasting milk than what I had been buying at the supermarket for many years, and it's shocking how inexpensively a bottle of milk can be made for. 2-3 Tablespoons of nuts and water is all you need! So to summarize... the advantages of Milkmade is that it's very inexpensive to operate with almost no effort on your part. The machine also does a nice job of cleaning itself and is straightforward to operate. The downsides are that the batches are pretty small (but larger than some). If you wanted to make a full medium-sized bottle of milk you'd probably need to do 2 batches, and the whole thing might take a half hour or so. You're also supposed to consume the milk within a few days. Also their instruction book/recipe book is really bad. I would expect a lot better, especially on the recipe side. I think the most disturbing thing though is that it seems to not really be supported by the company. As of this date, none of the replacement parts are available for sale (like the glass pitcher which is a high likelihood to break at some point). The product doesn't seem to be advertised anymore, and even finding a downloadable instruction booklet is only available from 3rd party websites. I'm definitely left with the impression that for all intents and purposes, they are selling off inventory and then discontinuing this machine, which is a bummer. Hopefully I'm wrong about that, but I've hedged my bets by buying a backup.

Recently I started to make my own soy milk again, I started out by using a Vitamix to grind the beans, although the Vitamix is a wonderful, powerful blender, but each time after I grind the beans I still need to manually strain, squeeze then cook the extract of the soy juice (milk), very strenuously and time consuming, that was the reason why I haven’t make my own soy milk for a long time. Then I learned about the Joyoung milk maker. At first I was debating if I would just go ahead and buy one of the machine but then I decided to searching online for something else that might be equally good or comparable to Joyoung, I want to have options for myself. A couple days of research then I saw this ChefWave milkmaker machine! After reading the reviews (on Amazon it actually has more reviews than top Joyoung model and better ratings too), I did some comparisons then I decided to go ahead and give it a try, boy, was I glad I did, this machine is so convenient and efficient! Within couple days after I received it I started making soy milk. At 1st I was a little hesitant about making soy milk without straining it which is not the way how I grew up with drinking the whole thing, milk extract and pulp, we always extracted the milk and discard the pulp or using the pulp for some other recipes. But with this milkmaker machine it grinds the beans/nuts so fine and smooth that I found myself actually likes it and drink everything the way it made. I heard the top model of Joyoung milkmaker machine is few minutes quicker for each batch than this ChefWave does, but then Joyoung machine cost about $150 more so I don’t mind spending a few minutes longer to make my plant milk each time and saved myself $150, it’s good deal to me. I only have this machine for one week, but I have made 10-12 batches of soy milk and also hazelnut and almond, I have much more to explore yet. One thing I want to mention is the recipe booklet that came with the machine indicated each 20oz batch to add 3/4 tablespoons of dried beans/nuts, I found it too little and the milk came out very watery, so I modified it and used one tablespoon full to make 10oz. I did soaked my soy beans overnight then I used that little measuring cup that came with the machine, I used one scoop to make a 10oz batch and it came out nice and thick, I like that, it was much better. In conclusion; I really like what this machine can do, and I’m still learning and exploring how to used it to make more verity of plant milk/juice. I also hope this machine holds up and last for a long while, because on a couple batches I did hear a little rough groaning sounds during the grinding process, not sure what it was but didn’t like the sound.

Well made, easy to use, versatile. I've experimented with oats, nuts, seeds, soy and get the perfect flavor and viscosity prepared in under 20-minutes literally at the push of a button. The 7-minute self-cleaning feature makes this a dream to use. The machine blades and efficiency create a blend we don't feel the need to strain, which is another bonus. Cool the milk, add any flavoring or sweetener desired (it comes with some basic recipes, and there is a Facebook recipe group, too) and you have plant-based milk we've used to foam in coffee, add to smoothies, cereal, baking and more. My only regret is I waited so long to get this. The cost and stabilizing ingredients found in many shelf-stable pre-packaged products will return on our investment in just over three months we calculated, while ensuring only clean water and organic ingredients are being used. Give it a try!

This machine has very good price compare to the more expensive joyoung brand. And from the picture, it looks exactly the same in every detail. The quality is very good. Operation is very easy and it cleanup itself really good. It does everything it claimed to, I should be happy with it. However, I have an old soymilk machine. The old machine requires hand cleaning, and I have to drain the soymilk through a filter before drink it. The filtered soymilk is just perfect taste. The new machine (I guess all other more expensive ones) grinds very fine, and no filter is needed. The final soymilk is kind of dense, goo like. Even though very fine, you can still feel the okara at your throat. The problem is, because the okara is so fine, you cannot filter it. It clogs up a fine filter, or all pass through a coarse one. Too bad I still have to use my old soymilk machine. ————- Update after 2nd use: I down grade this machine to 2 stars, may be should be 1 star. For the first try, I was using soaked soybean, and I didnot like the result. I tried the machine the 2nd time with dry soybean and pure bottled water as suggested by the manual. I was trying to do a comparison with my old soymilk maker. It ended with spills everywhere. I then totally cleaned the machine, tried the 3rd time, with dry soybean. This time I monitored the whole process. First I noticed the steam comes out from the top vent, spilled on the top of the machine. Then when it was almost done, a thick chunk of okara spitted out to the front cup. After one second, it started to pour out more soymilk goo to the back waste water basket. Then later when the machine did the self cleaning and dumped the cleaning dirty water into the waste basket, it overflowed and caused the spill out. I believe this is a software error that prematurely dumping soymilk into waste buck, nevertheless should not happened.

Es fácil de usar, supero las expectativas, no deja residuos de ningún tipo y aprovecha al máximo los ingredientes. excepto que a veces sale un poco del respirador y derrama ese es el único detalle fuera de eso, es muy practica y funcional.

The family is really enjoying the warm fresh nut milks. Cashew works better than almond as the almond leaves a more velvety taste to the milk. I will assume the almonds are harder to break down. As advertised the unit grinds all of the nuts or cereal, there are no remains that you then need to dispose of like other units on the market. Also, it self cleans at the end of each milk production. If you are looking at drinking alternatives to cows milk and you want to avoid all the additives in nut/cereal milks when buying grocery store options, then you should seriously consider this product.

Easy to use,time saving

We only can operate 220v machines in our country I tried to use it with a voltage converter but it didn’t work as it gave me Error 7 which is related to the electric power Unfortunately had to return it immediately

Era muy tardado preparar leche vegetal con las recetas tradicionales, y por falta de tiempo terminaba comprando leche vegetal por cierto muy cara, y esta máquina en serio se está pagando sola, ahorro muchísimo tiempo, tiene varias opciones para preparar la leche vegetal y por si fuera poco se limpia sola..!! Es una maravilla súper recomendada. La leche sale calientita y eso también me gusto mucho .!!!