Heated soy and oat makers: grind, cook and clean in one cycle
A heated maker is a small sealed blender with a heating element in the base and a program button for each milk. Soy goes in dry or soaked and comes out cooked, which is the only safe way to drink it; oats, rice, walnuts and peanuts get their own cycles; most of them boil water and make hot cocoa too. The price is the filter, which is finer than a no-strain basket and needs rinsing every time, and the oat problem: oats blended hot go slimy, so the cards say which machines can grind cold.
Pick a size
They all grind and cook in the same jug. The size decides how often you run it and how much counter it takes. Why soy milk must be cooked explains the part the programs are for.
A cup or two
20 oz makers
Kidisle 6-in-1, Olayks, ChefWave Milkmade. Kettle-sized (the ChefWave is more coffee-machine-sized), 300 to 600 ml a cycle, a cup of nuts or beans at most. One serving at a time for coffee or breakfast; too small for a family's week.
A day's worth
32 to 42 oz makers
Kidisle 8-in-1, IAGREEA 35 and 42 oz, Joyoung DJ13U. A litre or so per cycle, delay start and keep-warm on most, hot and cold programs on the IAGREEAs. The household size.
The pitcher
51 oz makers
Kidisle 10-in-1. A litre and a half, an 8-hour keep-warm, ten programs. For soy by the jug and a counter that can give up the space.
Quick picks
The short answer for common situations. Each links to the full card below.
Ten programs and a 51 oz batch with an 8-hour keep-warm, for a family that drinks soy or oat milk by the pitcher.
Compare the eight
Batch and programs from each maker's page where it publishes them; the budget brands mostly publish nothing beyond the listing and the cards say so. Cold grind means the machine has a room-temperature or raw cycle, which is what oat milk and smoothies want.
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The heated maker that behaves like a coffee machine: a water tank on the back, a grinding compartment, a glass pitcher under a dispensing valve. Six programs (almond, macadamia, soy, oat, cashew, coconut) steam and pre-soak the ingredients, grind them, and dispense; ChefWave's manual says the grind is fine enough that no nut milk bag is needed. It runs a seven-minute self-clean after every batch, and the manual says nuts and soybeans need no pre-soaking.
Batch
10 or 20 fl oz per run
Cycle
20 oz run shows 12 to 16 minutes on the display; 10 oz 5 to 12 (manual)
Programs
Almond, macadamia, soy, oat, cashew, coconut; delay start; quick (3 min), deep (8 min) and dry (10 min) auto clean
Heats
Yes: steams and pre-soaks, then grinds; pitcher is hot after a run
Touches the milk
Glass pitcher with steam cover; grinding compartment (material not stated)
Power
1000 W, 120 V
Size
13.6 × 6.5 × 12.8 in; 11.7 lb
Warranty
1 year (manual)
Suits: Someone who wants cooked soy or a warm almond milk in a glass pitcher with no straining, a batch or two a day, and a delay start for the morning.
Weigh: Everything is heated, oats included, so the oat milk is the thick kind. Batches are 10 or 20 oz. The company's own website has gone; the manual (hosted by a retailer) is the spec sheet, and support was an email address. One-year warranty per the manual.
The household size of the Kidisle line: a stainless jug on a heated base with eight touch-panel programs covering soy, almond, oat and coconut milk, rice paste, boil water and a self-clean, plus a delay start and a keep-warm of up to two hours. It ships with a fine mesh strainer and a nut milk bag for the people who want their almond milk smoother than the grinder leaves it.
Batch
32 oz (listing)
Programs
Soy, almond, oat and coconut milk, rice paste, boil water, self-clean; delay start; keep warm up to 2 h (listing)
Heats
Yes
Touches the milk
Stainless jug, 10 stainless blades (listing)
Power
800 W, 120 V (listing)
In the box
Fine mesh strainer and nut milk bag (listing)
Size
Listings disagree: 5.1 × 5.1 × 11 in or 7.8 × 7.8 × 12.8 in; about 4.2 lb
Suits: A family that drinks soy or oat milk by the jug and wants it cooked, warm and ready at breakfast on the delay timer.
Weigh: Kidisle publishes no spec sheet; every figure here is from the listing, and listings disagree on the size. The jug is rinsed by hand, never in the dishwasher. The grind is not a filter: strain for smooth almond milk.
The big pot: 1.5 L a cycle, ten programs that add soup and porridge to the milks, a 24-hour delay start and an 8-hour keep-warm, and an auto clean. Same stainless jug and strainer-plus-bag arrangement as the 32 oz, scaled up for a household that makes soy milk by the pitcher or wants tofu.
Batch
51 oz / 1.5 L (listing)
Programs
10 incl. soy, nut and oat milk, soup, porridge, boil water, auto clean; 24 h delay; 8 h keep warm (listing)
Heats
Yes
Touches the milk
Stainless jug (listing)
Power
800 W, 120 V (listing)
In the box
Fine mesh strainer and nut milk bag (listing)
Size
8.3 × 6.8 × 12.6 in (listing)
Warranty
2-year limited (listing)
Suits: Soy milk for several people a day, hot soup and congee from the same machine, and a counter that can give up the space.
Weigh: Listing-only specs, no maker page, and the model is new enough that only the Amazon listing describes it. Heavy to rinse by hand when full. Two-year limited warranty per the listing.
Joyoung DJ13U-G91 Automatic Soy Milk Maker, 900 to 1300 ml
Joyoung built the soy milk machine category in China and this is its US-voltage 1.3 L model: ultra-fine grinding with no filter to wash, a soy program that grinds and boils in one cycle, presets for time and temperature, and a warming function. Soy first, then grains and nut milks.
Batch
900 to 1300 ml (listing)
Programs
Soy milk, grains, nut milks; preset time and temperature; warming function (listing)
Heats
Yes: grinds and boils
Touches the milk
Stainless (listing; sibling models list 304)
Power
120 V, 1100 W (listing)
Straining
No filter: ultra-fine grinding (listing)
Warranty
1-year limited (listing)
Suits: Anyone whose milk is soy, who wants it cooked properly with the least fuss, and who may go on to tofu.
Weigh: Joyoung has no working US website; model names churn (G91, P10, D988SG) and the listing is the only identifier, so match the model before buying. Specs are from listings. No filter means fine sediment in the glass; strain if you mind.
One of the few budget heated makers with a maker's page behind it. Eight programs (juice, soy milk, almond milk, milk shake, boil water, oat milk, rice paste, self-clean), hot and cold cycles, a 12-hour delay and a two-hour heat preservation, with a small lid for adding seasoning mid-run. IAGREEA says fresh soy milk takes 36 minutes and the self-clean 8 to 11.
Batch
35 oz / 1 L
Cycle
Soy milk in 36 minutes; self-clean 8 to 11 minutes (maker)
Programs
Juice, soy milk, almond milk, milk shake, boil water, oat milk, rice paste, self-clean; hot and cold; 12 h delay; 2 h heat preservation
Heats
Yes, with cold programs too
Touches the milk
304 stainless chamber and lid (white 8-in-1 page); the 35 oz page says nonstick interior
Power
750 W, 120 V
Size
5 × 6 × 10.3 in; about 4 lb
In the box
Cleaning brush, measuring cup, scrub sponge
Suits: Oat milk and smoothies on the cold cycle in the morning, soy or rice paste on the hot ones at night, for a household of two or three.
Weigh: No filter in the machine: IAGREEA's own how-to says to strain for a smoother texture. The maker's pages disagree with each other on interior (304 stainless on one, nonstick on another) and on weight. Dishwasher and warranty not published.
The larger IAGREEA: 42 oz a cycle and ten programs that add soup and porridge to the milks, with the same hot-and-cold arrangement, delay start and self-clean as the 35 oz. The step between the 32 oz Kidisle and the 51 oz pot.
Batch
42 oz / 1.2 L (listing)
Programs
10 incl. soy, almond and oat milk, juice, soup, porridge, boil water, self-clean; hot and cold; delay start (listing)
Heats
Yes, with cold programs too
Touches the milk
Stainless chamber (listing)
Power
Not published
Straining
No filter in the machine; strain by hand for smooth milk
Suits: A household of three or four that wants cooked soy by the jug and a cold cycle for oat milk from the same machine.
Weigh: IAGREEA's site documents the 35 oz model; this one is described only by the listing and a manual site, so every figure here says so. No filter in the machine; strain for smooth almond milk.
The small Kidisle: a kettle-sized 600 ml jug with six programs for nut, oat and soy milk, juice, boiled water and a self-clean, a two-hour keep-warm and a touch panel. A cup or two per cycle, soy cooked properly, and the cheapest way to a machine that does it.
The Kidisle 20 oz's near twin with one useful difference the listing spells out: which programs heat and which don't. Soy milk and rice paste run to 212 °F, oat milk to 122 °F, nut milk and milk shake at room temperature, plus boil water, an 18-hour delay and a self-clean at 176 °F. Twelve stainless blades.
Yes, to boiling on soy and rice; room-temperature nut milk
Touches the milk
12 stainless blades; body not published
Power
Not published
Suits: A cup of cold almond or cashew milk, or a warm oat milk, without cooking it; soy on the hot program.
Weigh: No maker site; everything is from the listing and the manual, which warns the lid must align with the handle or the run stops with an error. Size and weight not published.
The budget heated makers are close relatives: a stainless jug, a base with a blade and a heating plate, a touch panel of programs, and a self-clean cycle that is a hot rinse with a little dish soap. The program counts ("6-in-1", "8-in-1", "10-in-1") mostly add hot drinks and porridge to the same grinder, and the cards list what each program is. Joyoung is the exception in pedigree: it has made soy milk machines for the Chinese market for decades and its programs are built around soy first.
The checkable claims are batch size, wattage, programs, what the jug and filter are made of, and whether a cold or raw cycle exists. The listings' review counts and "amazing" copy are not specs. Oat milk is the test: a machine with no cold cycle will make it slimy, and the oat guide says how to work around that.
