10 Best Baby Food Makers for Cooking Up Homemade Meals

This is the gold-standard baby food maker on the market with more than 1,500 five-star reviews. The Baby Brezza steams and purees vegetables in as little as 10 minutes. (Pro tip: Buy frozen veggies, let thaw, and use those. They're already chopped.) 

It has a small footprint, which is a real bonus for smaller kitchens, and the unit holds 4 cups of food, or about six to eight servings of food, which is actually pretty generous. At just under $100, it's a valuable device when you consider the cost of baby food. 

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This one is great for families who are looking to cook their proteins as well as their veggies. It cooks meat, fish, chicken, veggies, and fruit. 

This model allows you to cook two types of food at the same time, which means that you can make an entire meal, with all the fixings, in one go. Each side holds almost 5 cups of food each, so you're really getting a ton of baby food made at once.

This one is arguably just really neat. It’s attractive, it’s useful, it’s popular, and it gets the job done. Set up like a steamer basket for adults, this model by Babymoov allows parents to steam multiple types of food at once before pureeing them in the generously-sized blender.

And that's not all it does. If you need a bottle warmer? It does that. Defroster? Why not? It does that too. Need a sterilizer? If you have this, you have one. It's that useful. Plus, it makes 12 cups of food at a time, so you could steam potatoes for your whole family in this bad boy.

Possibly the highest-rated baby food maker on Amazon with 2,200 perfect reviews. It does one thing — makes baby food from start to finish — and does it well. You choose what you're cooking (meat, veggies, starches) and it will cook them to the perfect doneness before you set it to puree. 

One of the best features of this baby food maker is that it is so easy to clean. You just rinse it out, and add water back in and rerun it. Bing bang boom — clean machine. 

This affordable model is simple and to the point. It steams and blends, and that is all. For under $70, it's one of the more affordable options available. It's on the smaller side, at just under a 1-cup capacity, but it's perfect for quickly cooking a good meal.

Holy bargain, Batman! This 22-piece set comes with multiple blades, spoons, spatulas, and storage. No, it does not cook the food, but if you're making huge batches and storing? This might be your thriftiest bet.

I get it — it's not technically a baby food maker. But you could blitz six chicken breasts in this with some stock, and there would be no lumps. 

The reason I chose this is because it's useful for more than the short time you're feeding your babies. If you like smoothies, soups, or milkshakes, if you're a fan of making infused oils or even your own paper, this machine will do it with aplomb. 

This is a great baby food maker because it can make food not only in baby quantities, but it will cook and puree a huge pile of food. It will also help you make your own oat or almond milk, and it does a fine job at crushing ice for margaritas. 

This Instant Pot blender holds your hand through the whole process thanks to its many settings, and it will likely become indispensable in your kitchen.

This will grind your spices, puree your baby food, and chop your garlic. It's compact but powerful, and at $50, it's affordable, too. The parenting editor at Best Products owns three of these, and frequently gifts them to new parents and new couples. 

This thing is so good you'll be writing sonnets to it after a while. It purees baby food right in the pan or in the bowl, the measuring cup, the jar you microwaved it in. Whatever. 

It also makes the creamiest, dreamiest, mashed potatoes. You control the level of puree, so it doesn't need to be overdone. However, because of the way the blades tilt, it's also a great whip, meaning mashed potatoes are light and fluffy, and whip cream comes out perfect every time.