Automatic Nut Milk Maker, 20 oz Homemade Almond, Oat, Soy, Plant-Based and Dairy Free Beverages, Almond Maker with Delay Start/Keep Warm/Boil Water, Soy Bag, Blue

I love love love the Arcmira. I tested a whole bunch of recipes before reviewing this. I’ve made hazelnut-cocoa coffee creamer, coconut milk made with coconut shreds, oat milk and creamer, cashew-oat blend (a favorite), cashew creamer, pecan milk and creamer, walnut milk (another surprise favorite!), rice milk, and soy milk with both soaked and unsoaked soybeans. I’ve made tea lattes with Earl grey tea plus cashews, Earl grey tea plus pecans, both with various sweeteners (dates or sugar or maple syrup.) I've used top quality instant coffees with nuts and water to make lattes, and also put drip coffee in the machine with nuts to make a cafe au lait.Here are some pro-tips:1. The oat milk recipe in the booklet states to use the warm cycle. Do NOT do this as it will cook the oats and make “oatmeal milk”. Not a good flavor. Instead, I run it on the room temp setting with cold water and a couple ice cubes. Works great, and doesn’t get slimy!2. E2 means the lid is off. Your Arcmira isn’t broken, don’t worry, just put the lid back on.3. You can add a small amount of oats to a nut blend for extra creaminess. It can be tasty! It’s also fun to mix ingredients like coconut-cashew, or a soy-rice blend on the hot setting.4. Lattes, either coffee or tea or a health drink like turmeric or beet powder, work great on the warm setting. High quality instant coffees or those mushroom coffees can work great here with some water and nuts of choice to make a tasty final product. Also matcha powder works to make a matcha latte, as the warm setting doesn't get too hot for green tea or matcha.5. Clean your Arcmira right away. Don’t wait, especially w soymilks, as residue can stick and get harder to clean. The self clean function is great.6. Natural plant milks separate in your fridge. It’s normal. All you need is to shake the jar or pitcher and all is together again! Commercial milks have preservatives and emulsifiers, and homemade milks do not. Your milks usually have a 3-5 day shelf life.7. Hot setting: you can make a soy chai with soybeans and chai spices, then add black tea at the end after straining. Or, you can make horchata with rice and lots of cinnamon, with almonds for extra protein. (Not necessarily authentic with almonds, but I like it.)8. Finally, the accessories: I am personally not a fan of the nut milk bag that comes with the maker. Instead, I use various fine mesh strainers with a silicon spatula to press all the moisture out of the pulp. The scoop that comes in the box is approx 1 Tbsp: try the recipes in the booklet and then customize them to the ratios you like. I find that I prefer a bit lighter ratio of nuts to water. Sometimes I make milk extra thick and then add water to equal a quart: I do this with the soy milk ratio in the booklet. It’s perfect, actually!This kitchen gadget is my new fave, and its compact profile allows it to stay on my counter all the time. Especially great for families of 1-2, or larger families who enjoy making plant milks every day or two. This is so versatile. I enjoy making my tea lattes in it the most! There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's a small one, and it's so fun to discover favorite recipes. I own two of these now as I can make different drinks simultaneously, or double batches of stuff like soy milk for my upcoming work week. Absolutely worth it!

I have had the blue Arcmira for about 2 weeks and am making milk every other day. For the price, I think it does an amazing job. It is MUCH quieter than my Vitamix. Cleanup is easy - give it a rinse, run the cleaning cycle with water and a tiny drop of soap, and rinse again. You do need to keep the plug receptacle dry. By holding the handle in my left hand when rinsing I can keep an eye on it to prevent getting it wet.At night, I put in the nuts to soak and set it to run on the delay cycle. In the morning, I run it a second time to minimize the size of any pulp. I was straining the milk but have decided that I don't need to for the nut milk. If you do, you can use the pulp in oatmeal, pancakes, crackers, etc. I could't keep up with it and didn't want to throw it out. I don't mind the pulp so am leaving it in and find that I can cut back on the amount of nuts needed as the milk is thicker.I have been experimenting with different combinations of ingredients. My current mix is almonds, walnuts and cashews with 1 cut-up date and a little vanilla. Today I needed to make some with no time to soak. I used 2 scoops cashews, 2 of oats and 1 of ground flax seed with a little vanilla and maple syrup and it turned out great.Oat milk - I don't know why the cookbook says to use the warm setting as this cooks the oats and makes the milk thick. Regular oats contain phytic acid which can make the milk come out slimy, especially when heated or overworked. For best results, use sprouted oats, which have reduced phytic acid. I found sprouted oats by One Degree Organic at a Fry's (Kroger) and just saw them at Costco at a much cheaper price. When making oat milk, use cold (refrigerated) water, run just 1 cycle and when straining, do not squeeze the bag as doing so will increase the slime factor.The one shortcoming I have noticed with this unit is that the delay cycle only seems to work with the room temperature setting. This is not a problem for me but someone hoping to soak soybeans overnight and then have finished soy milk in the morning is going to have to wait another 10 minutes while they run the cycle.Overall, the Arcmira is perfect for me, especially when comparing the price and easy cleanup to other units.

I ordered this nut milk maker and attempted to make soy milk. We followed the directions, however in afew minutes, it boiled over, spewing hot water all over the place. We cleaned it up, then tried again with less water. Same result. One last attempt, and this time the milk maker would not work at all. Instead, it tripped electrical breakers because of all of the water that seeped into the electrical plug area from boiling out of the cannister. I sent it back and exchanged it for a new one, thinking maybe we just got a faulty unit.Wrong. Exact same result. We followed the instructions printed in the manual to the letter. We even tried reducing the amount of water a bit as the recipe says to use 1 to 2 cups of water. The attached photo was the result. It either dangerously boils over, damaging itself beyond use or it makes paste, not milk. I don't understand the positive reviews. This thing is clearly not designed well, it is unsafe and unusable. Feel free to give it a shot if you want to end up in the ER with some pretty painful burns. Full refund expected.....trust me, pass on this trash.