SoyaJoy G5 8in1 Milk Maker | Soy Milk, soaked or dry beans, Almond milk, quinoa milk, Nut Milk, Oat Milk, Cashew Milk | + Soups, Porridges, hot cocoa | Self-Cleaning | Raw Milk Program

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.

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’ve been using the SoyaJoy G5 for a few weeks and it’s very versatile—makes soy milk, nut milk, porridge, and even hot cocoa with ease. The self-cleaning function is handy, and the raw milk program works well. The only downside is that it can be a bit noisy and the instructions could be clearer for first-time users. Overall, a solid kitchen appliance that I’d recommend.

I thought I had left a review for the Soyajoy back in 2023 when I purchased it but it must have gotten deleted or I never actually left it. I use it weekly and I have gone from making soy milk, to almond milk, and now coconut milk. Soy milk is definitely my favorite taste wise in my matcha tea but I have moved to coconut milk so it's easier on my stomach. The almond milk tastes better than any store bought one, too. Very rich taste with the Soyajoy. While you CAN make coconut milk in it, I wanted to talk about that the instructions on their site are not accurate. It indicates you can use more than 2 cups ("cups" here meaning the included plastic cup with the Soyajoy) but even with fine shredded coconut, 2 of those little cups makes it error out and you are basically screwed unless you have a blender to finish the milk because it can't pick up where it left off and you have to wait for it to cool down to start the entire process again. What I found is that coconut milk ONLY works with finely shredded coconut and I can only use 1 and 1/2 cups. It sometimes errors out regardless but basically when there is 1 minute left or so; it's not a big deal because the milk is done at that point anyways. There are some times I don't get any errors and it finishes. The milk is still delicious, a little fatty despite not much coconut being able to be used, and definitely better than the watered down sludge you get at the store. I never liked coconut milk from the store's cold section (tastes like CHALK) until I had the ones in the cans but they are pricey, so the homemade one is a good replacement. I never had issues cleaning this appliance. Even when I used to make soy milk and forgot to drain is right away, nothing gets stuck in a way that takes a long time to clean at all. At most, 3 minutes to scrub clean everything. If you make cold milk like almonds, not even 30 secs to just rinse it off. The Soyajoy was a great investment for me and still is, as I go through a lot of non dairy milk weekly! Saving tons of money here buying bulk shredded coconut to make my own milk to drink as much as I want.

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!

Love my Soyajoy! It has paid for itself many times over, as I use it several times a week. it is easy to use, easy to clean (as long as you do so right way), makes wonderful soy milk, and I don't need to take the time (and gasoline!) to go to the grocery store for an expensive carton of soy milk when I've run out. (Making soy milk WITHOUT this machine was a real chore, and was sometimes ALSO a nusiance when the pot of soy milk boiled over. Boiling over is NEVER a problem with this precision machine!) Here are some tips for you to make things easy: You'll want to buy organic dry soybeans in bulk, first of all. Additionally, I recommend rinsing, then soaking the soybeans a couple of pounds at a time overnight in a large bowl. Next, drain, rinse and freeze them into individual baggies in batches of 250 gms each (maybe 1 1/4 cups?). The baggies thaw fast either on the counter or in a bowl in the microwave. Follow the directions that come with the machine, at that point. This way, you are never more than about 45 minutes away from a nice, fresh batch of soy milk. Save the okara (resulting soybean solids) for cooking projects. I panfry oatmeal/okara burgers made with poultry seasoning, tomato paste, salt and pepper, and mixed with pulverized peppers and onions. I then freeze them up for my husband's midnight snack attacks. Easy to throw onto a pan to re-heat and make a wholesome and delicious sandwich! There are lots of other things to cook with okara, so don't just throw it away. ONE of these days I'll try some of the other functions of the Soyajoy, such as making soup or another kind of plant-based milk. Lovely machine. Have fun with yours!!! Thanks!

We have been making tofu at home for a number of years, but only as a special occasion. Making the soy milk on the stovetop has always been a deterrent when we were busy with work and other cooking. The machine is extremely easy to use and clean. I was worried most about the cleaning given stovetop milk making. We soak a cup of soybeans overnight in the fridge. Drain and add half in the machine. Fill with water to between two lines (about a liter and a half). Put on the lid with blender stick. Hit one button and thirty six minutes later you clean the blender blade and shaft in the sink. Takes next to no time though you do benefit from a wooden skewer for the very small bit of shaft going into the cutting blade. It isn’t fussy and it shouldn’t take a full minute. When the soy milk has rested and settled ten minutes pour it through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl and clean the reservoir of the machine. Takes a minute. Ok tldr we bought one a month ago and liked it so much we just bought a second since we like making a lot of tofu and it takes four one hour batches to get that. With two, it will take two hours. Customer service is also amazing in my limited experience. Emailed them on a Saturday evening asking if I could double the quantity of beans for more of a tofu “cream” and they responded same evening as. said it wouldn’t hurt the machine that an error would alert me if it was overloaded. It worked perfectly. They also warned that it could be hard to strain that quantity of okaru and in fact it wasn’t. We made nice silken tofu from the denser soy milk.

1/28/2023: I've had the Soyajoy G5 for about a month and I have used it several times for oat and soy milks, so I feel comfortable giving my initial review. So far so good, but my main complaint at this time is that I had to get a nut milk bag to truly achieve the quality I was looking for. The included mesh strainer is just not quite good enough even with two or three passes, although it did better than I expected it to given the size of the holes. My oat and soy milks were gritty and had a much stronger oat and soy bean taste than store-bought milks, probably due to there still being a good amount of pulp in the milk. I got a hemp nut milk bag to replace the strainer and it was a night and day difference compared to my first few batches. I actually prefer my latest batch over Silk soymilk, and the nut milk bag also made the straining process much more convenient. I just pour right into the bag over a bowl, tighten the drawstring, and hang the bag over the bowl to slowly drip while it is still too hot to squeeze by hand. I highly recommend picking up a nut milk bag to go with this product, and would rather have had one included instead of the mesh strainer. I also think that removing more of the soybean skins after soaking helps the end product (maybe this should be added to the instructions). Overall I am pleased with the performance of the machine. It's fairly easy to configure and clean. The only trouble spot with cleaning I noticed was the seam where the shaft of the blade sticks out of the blender body. Sometimes a tiny bit of pulp stays stuck there on the shaft, but otherwise a quick wipe with a kitchen sponge with detergent cleans it perfectly well (and you could probably just use water if you wanted). I'll be updating this as I get more experience with the machine and try out other features.