Customer Reviews

Joyoung CTS1048 Automatic Hot Soy Milk Maker

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A few weeks before Christmas this year, I went to a friend's house and was introduced to the concept of a soymilk maker. I didn't even know such an item existed! We live in Manhattan, and soymilk here is very expensive - about $4.60 a quart, more sometimes. I'm very very lactose intolerant, and we drink a lot of soymilk - about a quart and a half a week. It adds up, as you might imagine!

My friend's maker was an old SoyaJoy that she bought off of Craigslist. I liked the quality of the milk, and came home raving about soymilk makers and how much money we'd save if we got one, and proceeded to research new soymilk makers online. My husband, dearheart that he is, bought me this one for Christmas after I subjected him to yet another evening's worth of research and raving! He's very patient. I was over the moon ecstatic. He also bought us 25 pounds (you read that right) of soybeans.

It is now 3 weeks later, and I have made & drank several quarts of soymilk, as well as a quart of almond milk, and a quart of pecan milk. Pecan milk is amazing and I suggest making hot chocolate with it - it will knock your socks off.

I find the easiest way to clean the machine is, after straining the milk into a big bowl or glass pitcher, to fill the pitcher part of the machine with hot water and a squirt of dishsoap, and reassemble the machine to soak for a little while. Cleanup is super easy and you won't have to use the scrub brush included in the kit.

My soymilk recipe is as follows, it tastes very similar to Silk brand soymilk:
100 g *dry* soybeans, soaked overnight or in the fridge for a few days
1 tablespoon rolled oats
1 - 2 tablespoons unsweetened coconut
2 scant tablespoons sugar, and 1/2 generous teaspoon kosher salt
Fill machine to higher water level
process on "soymilk"
strain & chill

That's it! Pecan milk was 165 grams of dry pecans, soaked for a few hours and processed on "soymilk", and sweetened the same way.

I find that warm milks right from the machine are a little grainy. Cooled in the fridge overnight, the milks take on a lovely creamy quality.

I absolutely ADORE this machine and look forward to many years of use from it. I highly recommend it to anyone who drinks a lot of alternative milks - soy, nut, what have you.

I use 100 grams of soybeans per quart of milk - that's about 3.5 ounces of soybeans. We bought 25 pounds of soybeans for $30, which means that our 25 lbs of soy beans will make about 114 quarts of soymilk. That works out to 26 cents a quart.

Twenty six cents a quart, versus $4.60 a quart.

FREAKING AWESOME! Tasty too, and foams beautifully when I make my morning latte/cappuccino. I can't say enough good things about this machine. Get one. You'll be thrilled.

PS : I just tweaked my recipe a little in the past few months :) Enjoy!

ETA: I tweaked my recipe again!

Tonight, my toddler drank it (he usually refuses) and called it milk, and drank until he fell back asleep. So, I think while it's not as WHITE as Silk (don't care, and it's an nice ivory color), I think it tastes much better. I can drink it straight too. Before, I really only liked it in tea, or coffee, or for cooking. Now I like to dip cookies into it straight. The key is the seaweed and the barley malt sweetener (we use Now Food's brand).

We use a Joyung soymilk maker to make this.

100 g soybeans soaked & frozen, then thawed (we keep a stash in freezer)
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp barley malt sweetener (dried, not the syrup)
1 tbsp unsweetened coconut flakes
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp kanten flakes (agar)
1/2-2 teaspoons vanilla extract (optional)

We usually wash the defrosted beans in a bit of water, rubbing them with our fingers or a potato masher to get the skins to come off. It helps cut the bean taste sometimes. If I'm feeling lazy, I don't though! Pour the bean skins off.

Put water in the soymilk maker to the higher level. Put in the beans, and all the ingredients except the vanilla into the maker.

Turn maker on, and make soymilk.

Strain into an unbreakable bowl to cool. If drinking the milk, I usually put in the vanilla, If I'm making a batch of milk to use for cooking, I omit the vanilla. We usually put a bit of saran wrap on top of the cooling vessel to prevent a "skin" from forming on the top of the milk. When cool, we pour into glass pitchers and keep the milk in the fridge.

Enjoy!

I bought this product about 18 months ago. It did an excellent job just as described by the manufacture. I was very satisfied and used it each morning (I mean every morning). I told all my friends that this is the best product ever made in China.

Well, 6 months later, the soymilk button (the right button) stopped working. So I used the middle button instead. This woked fine and I was still very satisfied.

Last week, the middle button quitted on me. So did the 3rd button.

If the product can last, say, over 3 years, I'd be satisfied.
If the product can last, say, over 5 years, I'd be satisfied, very.

However, if the product lasted only 1.5 yrs, I'm not satisfied. That's why I gave 3*s.

In conclusion, This product has a very good initial quality.
But it lacks reliability. It cannot maintain the good quality over time.

I hope that the manufacture put more effort in improving product reliability.

I'm very happy with this soymilk maker. Milk is smooth, fresh and clean up is a snap. I put some oats and walnuts together with soybean. The milk came out even better. It has a thicker texture and nutty taste. Much better than soymilk bought from the store. Chill in the fridge and I have soymilk any time. I use the left over (Okara) to cook with rice or bake stuff. It's nutritious and tastes great. Highly recommended.

Wow, I have this soy milk machine and love it. It's so great and simple to use. I am on my second one - my mother in law borrowed our first one and wouldn't give it back. This is the best one we've tried, it's so easy and the soy milk quality is awesome, better than any store purchased soy milk. We haven't purchased any soy milk in the two years that we've had this. It's very good quality and has never broken down or given me any problems. Highly recommended.

This makes excellent soymilk. I've had it for about a month now and I am very pleased with it. I usually drink a pint a day of Silk brand's plain original. The Joyoung soymilk tastes more like Silk lite than Silk original, but is far superior because it's made fresh with the ingredients you put into it. The amount of calories and fat in a quart of the freshly made soymilk is about half of Silk original, and equivalent to Silk lite, so I think their original may be concentrated during processing.

I chose this soymilk maker based on many reviews here and especially N. Tucker's. I used her soymilk recipe as a base, adding some modifications. I like it much better than any soymilk from the market. Using all organic ingredients, my recipe is:

Place 1 T. barley in the cup provided by Joyoung and fill to the top with soybeans. Empty beans into a container, add 2 T. rolled oats, and cover with plenty of water to soak from 8 hrs to overnight. Drain the soaking water and rinse the mixture well. I use a wire strainer to catch all the oats. Fill the machine to the lower water level, add the washed bean mix and process on nutrition. I strain the milk twice using the pitcher and strainer that came with the machine. The second straining reduces the "grainy" texture by removing additional bean mash. I add 4 teaspoons of raw sugar and 1/8 teaspoon sea salt while it's still hot, to dissolve well. This makes a plain milk that's not too sweet, but a little more palatable to me than the straight stuff. The barley and oatmeal add a slightly thicker, cream-like quality to the soymilk. Delish!

I made rice milk from brown rice without soaking and processed on dry bean setting. It is creamier and tastes better than Rice Dream, but still has a raw rice flavor. When I heat it in hot cocoa, the raw flavor is gone. You'd have to add sugar and salt or vanilla to match the taste of commercial rice milks, such as Rice Dream.

The okara is great for composting if I don't use it all, but I have added it to soups, egg dishes, meatballs, and even mixed in with filling for enchiladas! The dishes were delicious, although the okara itself doesn't have much flavor of its own. Okara gives more structure and substance to egg dishes while they still remain tender and moist. I imagine it would be great mixed in with ricotta for lasagna, or a good substitute for the eggs and cheese.

One major problem with this machine is that the stainless steel exterior gets so hot while processing that a person could be burned touching it. This is especially dangerous for a household with children. The company could improve it immensely by designing a protective thermal exterior that would remain cool to the touch.

I wash the unit immediately after using by rinsing with cold tap water to cool it enough so I can touch it with my bare hands. I remove the inner screen surrounding the blade area and wash it separately. Then I fill the container about 2/3 full with warm soapy water, reassemble it, and let it sit on the counter to soak for about half an hour. It cleans up easily without any scrubbing. I dry the unit thoroughly with a towel right after cleaning.

Many people have mentioned cost savings. It's true. I'm saving at least $25 a month making my own soymilk instead of buying it. This machine will have paid for itself in 4 months!

I had it for about 1.5 years, and it stopped working.

I have been a soymilk-maker user for years , and I had used Joyoung brand product when I lived in China. However for this one, after using it for 1 year, moisture somehow made its way into the motor chamber. I've been always very careful cleaning it. I don't believe the water leaked in when I washing it. It's a very thin mist. After some frequent use(I used it every day), some areas of the motor chamber were not sealed as well as it should have been. I had to open it up and dry the moisture out. After 6 months of open-dry-use every other week, it finally died for good.

I was hoping it would last about 3 years. It's a little disappointing, though it worked very well when it was working.

no complaints. it makes soy milk just as advertised. Just make sure to clean all the surfaces and the screen right after using it so the stuff doesn't harden on it. As long as you rinse it off right away, it cleans up fine. I've had it for about 3 months and it's easy to use and I've no problems with it.

The soy milk coming out of it doesn't taste very well unless you add something to it. minimally, 1/8 tsp salt and 1 TBS sugar will make it palatable and fine for using, for example, over cereal. To make it taste more like Eden Soy milk, add 1TBS Barley Malt (Eden sells a jar for about $5 I got at a local health food store) in addition to the above.

I used to make soymilk from scratch. It always overflows before it's boiled. So this machinie is perfect for me. The operation is very easy, just like the Coffee machine: put dry/soaked soybean in the container, and press the buttom, wait for 15 minutes, that's it.
The soymilk comes out silky and tasty, much better than the one from the supermarket. Of course, it is organic, and fresh. I also add various nuts, red dates to make the taste of milk various.
For the leftover from soymilk, I mixed with 2 egges, add salt, pepper and green onion, pan fry two sides. It tastes like frying toufu, but has better texture than that. So please try before you throw this away.
Overall, it saves money in long term, so I highly recommend.

This milk maker does work quite well. Don't expect your milk to look like "Rice Dream" or other name brands, because of all the stuff they add to it. But you can do just as well or better the way you like it! It takes about 20 minutes (after the beans or rice has soaked overnight). It's built very solid and is not that loud.

Am drinking glass 2 of just-made soymilk and OH GOD! It's out of this world! Un-be-lievable. The machine's surprisingly quiet. Very easy to use even for someone like me who doesn't know the A (forget about B & C) of cooking. Lazy, I didn't even bother to drain the milk. The whole thing straight out of the jug. And the delivery. Ordered it late Thursday night from Amazon for Free Delivery (sold by Micca), and 5 pm Saturday it was at my door! Via Velocity Express. Some velocity that was! I usually drink skim milk, which is pasturized milk - fat + Godknows what + tapwater or worse. Always wondered about the water part but thought had no choice. Truth is, I bought the Joyoung soymilk maker thinking it'd be worth it just so I know what exactly am drinking, so the great taste came as a total surprise. No more animal milk. No more heavy jugs from grocery stores. No more wondering "what's in my milk?" Heathful soybeans, clean water, and nothing else! Oh - and this is NOT a complaint - the machine must be designed by a lefty, because you have to lean over it to see the buttons. Again, completely satisfied and will recommend it to everyone.