BEABA Babycook Classic – Sorbet
- Prepare fresh, tasty and healthy mealsfor babies and toddlers in 15 minutes
- Prepare fruits, vegetables, meat or fish
- Make any stage baby or toddler foodfrom purees to solids
- Preserve vitamins and nutrients
- BPA, Lead and Phthalate free
A patented compact countertop appliance that functions as a steamer, blender, warmer and defroster to prepare fresh, healthy meals for baby. Quickly steam cook vegetables, fruits and meats in 15 minutes or less, while preserving their vitamins and flavors. Puree and blend food to the desired consistency making it super smooth, chunky or anywhere in between for baby. Clean up is quick and easy with a top-rack dishwasher safe bowl and basket. Comes with a spatula and recipe booklet.
List Price: $ 119.95
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A Slacker Mom’s dream,
I’ve read tons of web reviews and blogs about this product, and detractors seem to miss/misunderstand my ‘category’ of mom. I cook when I can. I bake when I get the chance but… mostly, I dont have the time or confidence to pull it off anything ‘new’… AND clean up multiple utensils!
So many blogs out there chastise the Beaba buyers for wasting money–telling us to buy cheap steamer inserts and dust off our blenders, food processors and food mills… For my first baby, I listened to these moms (and the Beaba wasnt in the USA yet). I bought the food mill; I pulled out the steamer insert… and.. I froze. My baby ate NOTHING BUT JARRED (organic) FOOD! till she could chew the foods in my comfort zone. Baby food, all the prep and the coordination of all these tools was all so daunting. I was terrified I’d get it wrong… or couldnt keep sterile enough… or would get lost in all the piles of things I’d have to clean after each prep!!
THEN THE BEABA! Little to clean, nothing to get wrong, no digging through drawers and juggling appliances in my limited space! I LOVE IT! Call me a slacker mom! But dont call me frivolous with money!! Organic Baby food is $1.10 a jar and my baby would go through 4-6 a day. I’ve had my Beaba for 6 weeks, and it’s already paid for itself.
BTW, you can adjust the consistency to your baby’s taste as he grows. I figure soon I’ll just be using it to steam, not blend. And… I doubt it will be a permanent fixture in my kitchen! But … its paid for itself! Carrots smell like carrots!!! and … its given me a confidence that I hope extends to other culinary projects! Slacker moms, buy it.
PS Careful if you’re reading those blogs re: Beaba and BPA. Read ALL the blogs. The most uptodate will lead you to the latest info promising this product IS BPA free. There are blogs that appear current but have not updated this info.
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|Useful especially if you have a small kitchen, one safety concern though,
Some reviewers say your baby will outgrow this machine’s usefulness in a few months but I disagree. My baby eats mostly finger foods but still I use the Beaba a lot. I use it to reheat leftovers (again, we have no microwave) and also use it to chop or puree adult dinners that are two hard for baby to eat.
It’s not a huge capacity but that doesn’t bother me. After spending whole weekends steaming, blending and freezing veggies, just to discover that my kid’s taste buds changed and what he once loved he now refuses, I’m over large scale baby food production.
One safety note! There is a little hole that the lid clicks into. That hole leads to the water chamber and I once accidentally tipped the machine over and scalding hot water came out of the hole and landed on my hand. I got a nasty burn. Definitely keep this machine well away from the edge of counters!
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|Bitter plastic taste when run with only water. Not for my baby.,
Bottom line: if you buy this item, try running it through to cook pure water only (no food), then taste and smell the water. It should be hot water right? The resulting clear hot water I got smelled heavily of plastic and worse tasted like poison and was shockingly bitter. If you decide to ignore this review and buy a new unit based on all the other positive reviews, just try running it with water yourself, and taste the hot water yourself.
I too wanted to like this product. After all most of the reviews are good and the product is so cute I wanted to like it very much, and the idea of making your own food seems healthier than buying prepackaged.
After purchase, I was thrilled and ready to go, and nearly made a batch of food for baby immediately. I’m glad I didn’t. The instruction booklet had an odd suggestion that the user should cycle water only through the machine at least three times with a brand new unit, so I did so:
The first time (filled water to the 3 cup line, poured it in, closed the lid, and turned it on), I had a deep plastic smell in the steam. Still wanted to like it, and figured some smell was unavoidable. (I don’t know if the smell came from the boiler, its plastic lid, the plastic steamer tray, or the clear container).
I ended up running it about 6 or 7 times (again water only) and I convinced myself the smell decreased somewhat. I still wanted to like the product. That’s when I thought I should taste the water. It was unbelievably bitter. It was so intense I couldn’t even hold it in my mouth for more than a fraction of a second. I ended up running the machine about 12 times with just water, and the taste was still just as bad.
Had I run the new Beaba with food and given it to my baby (like I almost did), I would’ve chalked it up to the baby hating broccoli.
In the end I figured I could run it a hundred times, and even if the smell and taste eventually faded away until I couldn’t detect it, I’d still be risking giving chemicals to my baby. After all, you can’t taste all chemicals, and there might be other chemicals than BPA in (heated) plastics to be worried about. I went back to steaming in my metal saucepan and whipping up the result in the Cuisinart for baby.
It is possible I had a defective lot or something, so if you do end up buying this product, I recommend running it with water only and tasting it for yourself. Trust yourself, not me.
****If you try running water in a new Beaba machine, please comment to my review and indicate whether you do, or do not, taste the bitterness****
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