Product Advice... - Killeen,TX

Hello C.,

I have the Beaba Babycook and I love love love it!!! It is so easy. You steam and process in one machine. I even use it to make mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes for me and my husband. The only drawback is that it is a little small and for a average sixed butternut squash it could take 2 or 3 cycles to cook the entire vegetable. But, it is easy to clean-up and goes in the dishwasher. It was one of the best gifts I received! The cook book is ok; though just so you know it is not specifically for the Beaba Babycook. The cooker has a small receipe book that comes with it. Now that my son is a little older I need to look at the toddler foods. I definitely recommend!

I used the beaba with my first. At the time I lived in a really small apt with no room for a microwave, so it was great to have something so small that could cook, purée and reheat food. If you're looking to do larger batches of food and freeze them, I think a blender would work just as well if not better. You can easily steam veggies in the microwave or on the stove in a steamer basket, purée in blender and freeze in ice cube trays without spending the money on the beaba. I recommend the book super baby foods, it has a lot of helpful info too.

I have the Beaba Babycook and love it! I only have to use one appliance to do everything. It is the greatest invention in my mind if you plan to make your own babyfood. I use it about once a month and freeze everything and then take out food as needed from the freezer. I also have the cookbook but I don't really use it I tend to make up my own combinations. Plus it comes with a mini cookbook inside that has about 10 recepies. Love, love, love this. Would be happy to answer any other questions about it! My daughter is 16mo and I still use it to steam veggies & meat for her just in case we are having something too spicy for her to eat.

I used a steamer insert I bought at the Goodwill for 75 cents to steam the veggies for my daughter and then used a blender to puree it. Honestly, I would not spend $150 + S/H on a kitchen gaget you will use for 6 months max. But that is just me.

I used a mini food processor that I already owned for our baby food. I simply pureed whatever we had (or parts thereof). It worked just fine, my daughter liked it.
Good luck.

I recommend Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. I still use many of the recipes and my oldest is 9! I make Super Baby Pancakes most weekends.

I have the Beaba cooker and cookbook, used them for my first daughter and loved it so much I plan on using it for #2, eventhough someone offered to buy it from me, not giving it up.
I would take a couple hours and do a bunch of things (sweet potatoes, apples, blueberries, carrots, peas, ect) and freeze them all in ice cube trays. Would just take them out of the freezer as needed.
It is super easy to clean.
I don't recommend the cookbook. I personally rarely used it and I am sure you can find just as many recipes online, and in the little book that is inlcuded with the cooker.

If you can afford to buy it (since it is more pricy than a small food processor, I would strongly recommend it.

I used the Magic Bullet to make all of my son's baby food. It was so easy! And you can get it at many stores, like Kohl's, for around $50. Good luck!

I already had a Magic Bullet ($50) and my cousin gave me for baby gift a Cuisinart Mini-prep Processor ($30). I used them both about equally. Some things worked better in one or the other. Plus I had a rice cooker that steamed. So I didn't need the fancy one, although it was cool and I wanted it. Also, I baked about as much as I steamed, and you can do a lot more quantity when you bake. It seemed like the same amount of work went into 1 veggies or 4, and 4 sure did last a lot longer. I would bake several things at once, and as they finished I would chop them up small enough to fit in the bullet and blend them up, then pour into trays. I really liked what I had- I still use them both quite a bit.

FYI, you can get that same Beaba Babycook thing at Bed Bath & Beyond online for the same price. I would call and ask them if it can be bought in stores so you can use a coupon. Cleanup looks to be a pain in the butt for it- handwash only. But it's only one thing to clean up. But again, kinda small so you would be doing multiple batches of things like sweet potatoes. It seems like you would be getting that Beaba one out every other day to make small batches of stuff. One nice thing about the Beaba one is that it is BPA free and the magic bullet and cuisinart are most likely not.

I just made extra of whatever I was making for the family. Then I pureed it in my mini cuisinart. Froze it in ice cube trays (they are aprox 1oz). You don't need anything fancy.

I did not use it but my sister inlaw in France did it and she loved it. She said and I saw that it was extremely easy to do and was everything in one machine.

I also think it comes with a cookbook.