Brand - IAE15-1.9 Liter Automatic Hot Soy Milk (Almond, Rice, Quinoa Milk) Soup, Porridge & Cold Juice Maker - 2 Layer Stainless Steel - Recipe Booklet

****Long, but interesting review, grab your coffee or tea before proceeding, (or enjoy this meandering sans beverage.) It was over four years ago I began making my own milks, organic and non-GMO for my and my spouse’s consumption. (Sometimes my spouse makes more milk for me on weekends if we have run out.) I began with one amazing soymilk maker and large recycled Italian pasta sauce jars and did not even own a large enough funnel back then. Pouring by hand, carefully balancing, it had to be done as I saved for funnels and mason jars-the filter I used to strain the milk came with the soy milk maker so I did not have to make a paper funnel thankfully. After we saved enough funds up in our food partition to be able to get another machine, we purchased an additional soymilk maker since I make a minimum of two types of milk. This way I did not have to wait to rest the machine and could run both machines at once. I am recovering from a back problem and when I feel up to it, batching making milk and other foods is easiest. Many folks may be able to easily make milk each morning. I make A HUGE AMOUNT of homemade food, generate almost no trash, I compost, even make my own HE laundry soap so for me I need at least two working soymilk makers. Sadly; my second soymilk maker, just a little over two years old stopped being able to turn his mixer (rotor,) though he still heats up. I cannot at this time find out where to send him to get him repaired, and I certainly do not want him parted out. Until we can fix that soymilk maker, we are keeping him in a box. He was not injured, nor did he get water in him, nor was he over used. So, we really do not know why his rotor stopped, but we look forward to having him back in service. Immediately though; I had to purchase an additional soymilk maker so as not to lose a large part of my milk supply. I had to use my household partition for this purchase and fortunately I was able to buy one immediately and did not have to wait so I did not go without milk. I once again turned to Amazon for help with my choices. Amazon showed me the Presto Pure by idavee soy/nut milk, soup and juice machine. It looks similar to my beloved other two soymilk makers and has similar functions so I purchased one. It has not disappointed me. I love its large capacity. I store my milks in ½ gallon mason jars and they never go bad in these. One batch fills up a ½ gallon jar. Presto even includes a pitcher, filter, measuring cup and scrubbing brush with these. My other scrubbing brush was almost worn out. I love my new scrubbing brush, it is very ergonomic and reminds me of something I saw on an old children’s show, Hammy Hamster where a guinea pig was showering in his tub (with closed shower curtain of course,) and you saw him appear to scrub his back with a similar brush. It was a most adorable scene and this little scrub brush reminds me of pure, kind writing (I am an award winning screen writer and filmmaker,) and so the brush is a meditative tool for me when I use it to clean my machine.) The filter container is incredible and is much easier to use than my filter baskets to make milk. Measure cups are always handy; I even use them to often water my houseplants. I have only had mine for one day but so far have made sesame paste and rice milk. My staples I keep on hand as far as milks are soymilk and almond milk that I use to flavor my homemade lattes. It took 5 cups of sesame seeds and water between the min/max to make paste, (I filtered it,) that can be used to make tahini. Although I own other soymilk makers I had a difficult time figuring out how to make rice milk, there were no directions on how to make that with the other machines. I tried to figure it out but was two busy so had not been able to. Since the Presto Pure recipe book has directions on how to make rice milk I gave it a go. Sure enough this morning I drank the best rice milk I have ever tasted. I am not a big fan of the taste of rice milk but my spouse likes it and does not drink soymilk, though he consumes it in recipes and enjoys it that way. So I am delighted he will have rice milk to drink or place in our muesli/granola if he wants. It does not even seem to need any vanilla added it has such a lovely flavor. I never even add sugar or flavorings to my other milks they are perfect plain and do not require additional sweeteners. THESE TYPE OF MACHINES NEED A ONE HOUR REST BETWEEN USES-IF YOU PURCHASE ONE DO NOT BURN IT OUT-BE CAREFUL. Always remember NEVER throw your old electronics away. The machines can be repaired if they break, do not let them get parted out. One thing I love about the idavee Presto Pure is the name Presto. It reminds me to treat my electronics the best I can, without hurting myself or another of course. When I was quite small I was placed in front of the television when there was not a babysitter. One day a commercial appeared for the Presto Hot Air Popper, a popcorn popper. This was decades ago and I had never seen such a high tech device. I though popcorn could only be popped in an oily pan on the stove and the popcorn was too greasy and burnt tasting and I did not enjoy it. I would stare transfixed at the Presto. Though I never had one I imagined folks that purchased them kept them and are still popping high quality popcorn with their original Prestos. One of the things I look forward to is making soymilk 30 years hence in my same soymilk machines.

Used 5 times so far and so far I'm loving it. I have made almond milk 3 times using 3 different settings (soaked nuts, dry nuts, and juice--no heat) and soy milk twice (both dry beans- slightly different amounts). Each cycle took 30 min or less from start to finish. Almond milk attempts: - I thought the first attempt at almond milk, dry nuts (1 scoop dry), was very watery when filled in-between the min/max lines. I think it made between 7-8 cups. -I tried again (2 scoops soaked nuts using the juice option for no heat) and found it was about the same. -I used slightly generous 2 scoops, soaked nuts, and filled to the min line and my result was MUCH better. I did not experience any overflow but was conscious that having a few more nuts MAY cause it to do so. I forgot to record how much milk it made but probably about 6 cups. Soy milk -after having made almond milk that was watery, I tried about 1.5 scoops dry beans with the water in between the min/max line and it was quite thick and creamy -- I had a couple of leaks on this round but minimal. I forgot to record how much milk it made. - my second attempt I used about the same amount of dry nuts and filled the water only to the min line. No leaks this time and same thickness. Made about 6 cups. 4 cups of this was used to make one small batch of tofu (3.55 oz in weight). It doesn't make unreasonable noise but, since I work overnights, I tend to wait til day hours to use it since I live in an apt complex and know the sound/vibrations could easily travel. The first use there was no squeal as others reported. The following times, however, I have noticed the sound and will keep an eye on it. I haven't used the other functions yet, but plan to do so soon. So far, all positives. Easy to clean, minimal hardware, sturdy, and also attractive enough (if that matters). It's quite large but I think that given what it does, it's not a problem. I made sure to follow directions and waited at least 1 hour between uses.

I recently started making my own soymilk the old fashioned way, then decided to look at some of the automatic nut/soymilk makers. After a lot of research I decided on this one. I am happy with my purchase and so far it has made great soymilk. It tastes pretty much like the milk I make by grinding my own soaked beans in my vitamix, then cooking on the stove. There are two major benefits however, to using this machine. First, I am able to use a smaller amount of beans with this machine than I did when making it manually. The instructions on bean/water ratio is clear, and easy to follow. I didn't know how I was going to get a decent amount of soymilk with that recipe, but surprisingly when the cycle was over I filled my pyrex pitcher with seven cups of strained milk! For comparison, when I make my milk manually, my recipe uses about 50% more beans and the end result is about the same amount of milk (more pulp with my manual method tho). Ok, the Second benefit to using this machine over making soymilk manually, is the simply the ease of use. Instead of dirtying my vitamix and my big stovetop pan, and instead of standing over my pan stirring forever, I just dump the water & beans in this container, plug it in, and push one button. In about a half hour the machine beeps and it is done. I was worried about loud beeping because my dog is afraid of them, but the beeps are very quiet, way quieter than my microwave beeping. Although there is a self cleaning function, the container is really easy to clean manually. I just pre-rinsed everything, being careful to only get water on the inside of the vessel & only on the surface of the blade assembly. I then used a really soft sponge to wipe out the residue and rinsed again. I did this right away and it came out perfectly clean. Now, with all this praise, I will explain why I only gave four stars instead of five. My complaint is that they provide a plastic pitcher, and a strainer with plastic sides that fits into the pitcher for straining the steaming hot milk. I looked and looked at the description on the listing, and I could not find anywhere that said the plastic was BPA free, Phtalate free, etc. And on the bottom of the pitcher itself it does not say what kind of plastic it is. That's strike one. Strike two, is that even if it did say that it was a safer plastic (pete 1, for example), I still think they should provide either a glass or stainless pitcher for this purpose. I never EVER put hot leftovers into plastic containers. I either wait until they cool, or I use glass pyrex containers. Before anyone wastes their time reassuring me that it's safe to pour this hot milk into the plastic container, I might as well tell you right now I am completely close minded about this. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm ok with that. So basically, those plastic pieces that are included are a waste. I would've been happier paying less money and not getting them. What I do instead, is put a nut milk bag in my 8 cup glass pyrex container, and it works beautifully. I let it drain while I clean the machine, then I squeeze all the liquid from the bag. I have some flat wide tongs that I use for squeezing the bag, or you could use insulated kitchen gloves. Or you could wait until the pulp cools & use your hands. In any event, after squeezing the heck outta my bag, I get about 7 cups of milk. I add one packet of stevia, a pinch of vanilla, a pinch of salt, and about a couple scant teaspoons of organic sugar. The stevia helps cut down on the amount of sugar I need to add for flavor, and the result is only about one gram of sugar per cup. The milk turns out great, and I'm extremely pleased with this machine. If there were half star ratings, I would have given 4 1/2 stars. The plastic factor was just too much of a downside to ignore though, so I felt I had to round down rather than up. Especially since the milk is HOT when you pour it out. Bottom line, I truly am happy for the most part and look forward to using the machine for some other things, like soups, and maybe almond milk & hemp milk!

This is an amendment to my original review. My wife and I have had a chance to taste the soy milk this unit makes and it is thin and bitter. Far inferior to store-bought. The instructions stipulate that you not use filtered water in the unit, so the taste is contaminated by the chloramine and other flavors we filter out of our tap water. But even if the flavor were not a deal-killer, the fluid this produces is much closer to soy-water than soy milk. Observations first and details after: ~ Very convenient. ~ Quieter than a blender. Grinds intermittently and really not very annoying at all. ~ Easy cleanup. ~ Really: use the included measuring cup to dose the beans. Do NOT get confused and use a standard 1-cup measure. Details: While this appears to make perfectly nice soy milk, I haven't tasted it. My objective was to use this to make tofu and it will get you there, but it's not quite as practical as I'd hoped. When I make tofu from scratch I aim for about 4800 grams of material, water and bean slurry, in a pot, which yields a comfortable brick of extra firm at the end. At the rate my wife consumes it, I need to make a batch every three or four days. While not difficult to do, the process takes about an hour and a half from start to cleanup, uses lots of vessels and requires dedicated attention for the first hour. I thought this might allow me to either make a larger batch at a time or be more convenient to use on a more frequent basis. The unit makes a much more dilute solution for soy milk than I produce when making tofu. If I reduced my manual production to 1.9 liters of tofu-soy milk it would yield a larger brick of tofu at the end than 1.9 liters of milk produced by this unit. Another way of saying this is that I've done three batches of milk, one after the other, decanted them into a pot to keep warm and then applied coagulant to the mixture. Three batches of soy milk from this unit gives me 5.7 liters of soy milk, almost a liter more than when I do it manually, but I get less than half as much tofu from it at the end. An advantage using this machine is that I can do other things while it's cooking. I have to pour off the milk, clean the unit and re-fill it every half an hour, but I'm not stuck at the stove and I'm using less cookware in the process. The disadvantage is that the entire process takes longer and uses much more water for the same amount of tofu at the end.

First up, this milk maker is the real deal. I had a top-of-the-line Joyoung milk maker, and when it died on me after a little over a year of regular use, I tried to contact the company to get them to honor their warranty. The experience was so bad, it's actually kind of funny in retrospect. It also inspired me to NEVER give them a dime again, which is what led me to Idavee. I was immediately impressed by the performance of this milk maker. It does a splendid job of thoroughly macerating which ever beans, nuts, or grains I run through it. The only common issue is the whine of the motor, but it's a small tradeoff for the stellar results. Unfortunately, I hadn't had this for more than a few months when something gave out. I came home from a vacation to discover that the mechanics had simply stopped working. I'd purchased the Square Trade extended warranty for my Presto Pure IAE15, but I soon discovered that the company behind the warranty is almost as bad at honoring their agreement as Joyoung. At this point, I was fairly certain I was out anther milk maker, but I wasn't about to let the issue go. I contacted the manufacturer directly, prepared to entrench myself in a long, drawn out battle. Nope. Their immediate (and I mean like, within an hour or two of my initial email) response was a hat-in-hand apology and an immediate resolution to make the matter right as soon as possible. Two days later, my replacement arrived. Bottom line: I couldn't be happier wither with the product or the people who make (and stand by) it. They're a model of how a small business should act, and I would (and do) recommend this Idavee Presto Pure IAE15 to anyone.

I rely on reviews so have started writing them myself and want to share how great this product has been. We moved to the mountains in the PNW not realizing that we would be snowed in weeks at a time. I primarily bought the Presto Pure soy milk maker for emergency use and keep a bulk bag of USDA organic soy beans (from Be Still Farms, also bought on Amazon) on hand for snow weeks and when our fav brand is sold out in markets, or just when we don’t want to leave our paradise here to go shopping. I am ordering a second 5 lb bag of the soy beans from Be Still Farms now. This year there were nearly two unexpected months straight we were snowed in and it was just wonderful to be able to make fresh delicious soy milk! I pre-soak the beans overnight although there is also a function for not soaked beans/nuts, but I find the pre-soaked seems to taste richer. I also found using a full US measuring cup of dry beans for soaking makes a better, less watery milk that I prefer to the slightly smaller cup provided by the manufacturer. Straining into a nut bag was a little harder than using a fine mesh strainer with an additional layer of cheese cloth but maybe that is just me. I want to get better at using the nut milk bag strainer method because it is less wasteful since no cheese cloth has to be tossed into a land fill but the strainer with cheese cloth method is faster and I don’t have to wait until the milk cools to keep from hurting my hands. There was a plastic container and mesh strainer with a plastic rim included in the box but I don’t like to put hot liquids into plastic so I do not use those. Be sure to wash the soy milk maker right away after use (without submersing) or you will have stuck on soybean pulp that has to be soaked off like I did the first use! I use the soy milk maker often now and the milk also makes great vegan butter using the Better Butter and mozzarella cheese recipes from a cookbook I got on Amazon called The Non-Dairy Evolution Cookbook. I haven’t tried using the Presto Pure to make any of the other milk types such almond, cashew, coconut and rice because we prefer soy milk but it came with a recipe book for those and various soups, a porridge and a smoothie. It is also a very attractive, though relatively large but smaller than my Instant Pot, stainless steel appliance that I can leave out on the counter! Now I need to find a recipe for all the Okara soy bean pulp in the freezer.... shame to throw it all away!

I was so excited to try this and purchased this one for the ease, the star ratings and especially the self cleaning function. The first time we tried it I expected it to be loud but it wasn't as loud as my beloved Vitamix so I was happy. The motor turns on and off and the first on wasn't bad, then the second round had a high pitched whistle that told me something was whining in the motor and sent our doggie running and barking. Each round after that had the same high pitched sound. It did a find job of cooking and blending the soybeans and making the soy milk. The amount made was too small with just one batch to make tofu so you do need to make multiple batches unless you want a small pancake of tofu. The clean up was a nightmare. I ran it through the self cleaning function and after it cycled I was still left with a mess to clean. The difficulty was that it's sticky and although they include a brush and a scratchy pad the top is heavy and bulky and has open electrical connections that you need to keep dry so it was difficult. The bottom half is lighter and easier but still needs scrubbing and you have to take care of the open electrical connection there too. Way too much work. It comes with a very cheap plastic strainer and up to drain the pulp and the first use the screen broke free from the cheap plastic. I sent this back and my next batch I simply used my Kuving's slow juicer to extract the pulp and cooked the soy milk on the stove. Easier to clean, quiet and far less labor intensive.

This product works wonders. I can take dry soy beans and have wonder soymilk in about 30 minutes. I was horrible at making soymilk from scratch and I mean horrible. I just couldn't get the hang of it but this machine is just wonderful. My favorite part is that the beans don't have to soak overnight. You also use less beans than you would making it from scratch, so your beans last longer. I had an issue with my machine and customer service definitely took care of it within days. The machine's clean function doesn't work as well as I would have hoped but hand cleaning it isn't too big of a hassle. Their customer service is hands down the best I have ever experienced and even tho I did have an issue with my product the customer service team is great. (Thanks Ali) I am also looking forward to making soups! If you are on the fence about getting this product or a different one. Get this one. You won't regret it.