Soy Quick Soy/Rice/Almond Milk Maker SDZ-5 Brand: SoyLife

by SoyLife

Product Features

• Makes Fresh Soymilk, Rice Milk, Almond Milk, Oat Milk, Raw Milks and more!
• Fast 13 minute Cycle - Easy to operate - Award of Excellence Winner
• Free SoyQuick Tofu Kit, 20 Packs Tofu Coagulator, Deluxe DVD Guide, Recipe Booklet, Soybean Starter Package
• 90 Day Unconditional Guarantee - Toll Free Customer Service 1-888-769-5433 Mon-Fri 8am to 4:30pm PST
• 2 year warranty - Lifetime warranty on grinding blade and filter cup

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 13.5 inches ; 6.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002DUEUG
• Item model number: SDZ-5
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,822 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product, but a few things you should know..., December 30, 2007

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Roger Sharp (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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I've had the SDZ-5 for about nine months now, making 2-5 batches a week. I agree with all the favorable assessments posted here about ease of use and quality of contruction, but I do have some tips for its use. Here are my top 5:

First, my family and I found we didn't like plain "undoctored" soymilk, at all. You'll find that there are plenty of recipes on the internet for making soymilk that approximates what you buy in the store. We add 2T uncooked oatmeal to the soybeans in the machine before cooking. After cooking, we add 2 T sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1 T vanilla to the finished product. Very tasty!

The end product still won't taste exactly like the brand of soymilk that you're currently drinking, but give it a couple of weeks and it'll probably become your new favorite. If you're like us, you may remember that it took you a while to get used to soymilk when you switched from dairy. Same thing here.

Second, we filter the cooked soymilk/oats through a piece of cheesecloth rubber-banded to the top of the unit, before adding flavorings. If you don't, you end up with with a fine, somewhat grainy sediment (okara) when you get to the bottom of the batch. You can get cheesecloth in a lot of grocery stores and kitchen shops. My machine came with cheesecloth for use in making tofu, but I found it so tightly woven that it tried my patience waiting for the soymilk to drain. Regular cheesecloth does the trick just fine. I rinse the cheesecloth and throw it into the laundry so it can be re-used.

Third, make sure to give filter a good scrub after each use (I throw it in the dishwasher afterward for good measure). The mesh is very fine, so it's easy for it to get gummed up, and easy not to notice.

Four, use a nice big piece of cheesecloth in a nice big colander to filter out the "whey" when you make tofu. As mentioned above, the included cheesecloth is too finely woven and too small to be of use.

Five, once you run out of the little packages of tofu "coagulant" that come with the machine, you can use 1 tsp of Epson salt as a fine alternative. Epson salt is a naturally occuring mineral salt (magnesium sulfate). It's perfectly safe to consume epson salt -- it's sold for internal use as a, ahem, laxitive. Happily, the small amount that remains in the finished tofu is too small to have this effect!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars RICE MILK? Try Soyquick model 930P, October 17, 2007

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Dana "Dana" (Northern California) - See all my reviews

PLEASE SEE MY UPDATED REVIEW BELOW


I decided to purchase this soymilk maker for rice milk, despite a previous customer review about the rice milk boiling over. Mine didn't boil over, but the milk that resulted was so awful I had to throw it out. The mess was UNBELIEVABLE - I spent longer to clean up the machine than the machine took to make the milk. It was a sticky, gooey disaster. I managed to clean up the machine thoroughly and packaged it right back up. The customer service was great, though.

22 August 2008

The Soyquick company called me last week to let me know that a newer version of the Soyquick machine has just come out. It is model 930P. I was VERY impressed with the difference! The rice milk came out great with a smooth, even consistency. Rather than having the machine run the liquid through the metal strainer, I did that part myself with the strainer that is provided. The machine parts are SO much easier to clean up- took me less than a minute, nothing like the last machine. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE NEWER MODEL(SQ 930P) FOR RICE MILK and thanks to Kitchen's Best! Terrific customer service!
P.S. This machine will not make rice milk that tastes or looks like Rice Dream, so don't expect that.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Customer Service, April 2, 2007

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Vicky C. Shaw (Idaho) - See all my reviews
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For some reason my machine decided one day to not work. Period! I called the customer service number, went through the test check no luck. Since I just purchased it 2 months ago and had the SDZ5 they are replacing it! The service was pleasant and courteous even with my phone out of whack and disconnecting twice while we were on the line. I love my machine and the service is wonderful!