So you want your own plant based milk maker and you are looking to get something worth the money you spend. I understand, I am the same way. We bought our Tayama for around $90 and it makes soy milk just fine, or so we thought. Then we took a look at the MioMat which as of right now runs about $200 on Amazon. But is the MioMat really worth twice the price?
The Video Review
I decided to compare the two popular soy milk makers on the market to see if there is a big enough difference. So what does the extra $100 dollars really get you?
First off, the MioMat doesn’t just grind beans to make milk. You can also grind almonds, cashews, oats, or any other dry goods that you see milk made of in the stores. The Tayama, by comparison, seems like it is mostly able to just grind beans and grains, but not nuts for making milk.
For the MioMat, they recommend that you soak whatever beans, nuts or other hard legumes before grinding them while the Tayama has a “dry bean” option for grinding beans that you didn’t soak overnight. We have tried the dry bean option and while it does work, it leaves lots of leftovers that are not ground enough to be in the milk. We personally do not use the dry bean option as it just isn’t as good as using soaked beans.
MioMat also has some extra features that the Tayama is lacking. For one, Miomat has this special grinding ring that grinds up the beans or nuts finer that what we got with the Tayama. There was less leftover okara and more plant based milk when the grinding was complete. So in this case the MioMat gives you more milk for the same amount of raw goods.
If you are looking for a difference in flavor, you mostly won’t find one, at least not in terms of the soy milks. Both soy milk makers make a wonderful tasting soy milk that is better than you can get in stores or Chinese restaurants since all you need to add are the beans and water. If you want to add sugar or honey, you can but is really isn’t necessary as the milks from either machine will taste almost identical.
But one great addition to the MioMat is the option to make soups. Both the MioMat and Tayama will make porridge and smoothies, but the MioMat’s ability to make creamy or chunky soup is a great feature for making things like creamy mushroom soup, tomato soup, creamy broccoli soup and a host of others. These soups you can make in your own home with your own ingredients are a vegan’s dream as you can control what you put into your soup and even use the nut milk you made earlier to become the cream in your creamy soups. I have made many varieties of soups with the MioMat and they all come out tasting fresh and homemade. Canned tomato soup cannot hold a candle to the fresh tomato soup the MioMat makes for me.
And making the soups in the MioMat is very convenient. All you need to do is drop in the ingredients chopped up slightly and the MioMat will take care of the rest including heating and grinding the ingredients down to the creamy or chunky texture you are wanting. In this way, the MioMat can be used to make “spur of the moment” soups where all you need to do is look in your refrigerator for the vegetables that you like, give them a rough chop, add some salt, pepper or spices to your taste and fill the MioMat with stock or water to the fill line and turn it on. It’s that fast and convenient.
So if you’re looking for a cheap soy milk maker, the Tayama will do the job just fine. But if you want a little extra from your milk maker, like the ability to use nuts to make nut milk or to have it create healthy and nutritious soups in the span of about 30 minutes, then the MioMat is worth the extra. Plus you will have less waste when making your plant based milks.
Link to the Amazon Pages
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| Miomat Plant Based Milk Maker | Tayama Soymilk Maker |
