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Yomee - The World’s First Automatic Yogurt Maker

Yomee - The World’s First Automatic Yogurt Maker

Yomee - The World’s First Automatic Yogurt Maker

Yomee - The World’s First Automatic Yogurt Maker

Yomee - The World’s First Automatic Yogurt Maker

With its Keurig-like design, just add milk and a Yomee pod to enjoy fresh, healthy yogurt

With its Keurig-like design, just add milk and a Yomee pod to enjoy fresh, healthy yogurt

With its Keurig-like design, just add milk and a Yomee pod to enjoy fresh, healthy yogurt

With its Keurig-like design, just add milk and a Yomee pod to enjoy fresh, healthy yogurt

Lecker Labs
Lecker Labs
Lecker Labs
Lecker Labs
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Overview
Yomee is revolutionizing homemade yogurt: With its Keurig-like design, just add milk and a Yomee pod to enjoy fresh, healthy yogurt. Making yogurt with Yomee is simple - add your choice of milk & yomee pod before you go to sleep, two servings fresh & chilled yogurt is ready for breakfast or take away to eat later.

Yogurt is good—a healthy, delicious, and convenient food that we all love. And studies are continuing to discover yogurt’s infinite health benefits: boosting our immune system, maximizing our heart health, and strengthening our bones.

When it comes to yogurt, we just can’t get enough.. 

But not all yogurt is created equal. Many mass-produced brands fill their products with preservatives, artificial flavors, and added sugars—cancelling out most of yogurt’s amazing natural benefits.

The solution is obvious: homemade yogurt. Only then can you control ingredients and guarantee freshness, every time. But making your own yogurt is difficult, right?  

Yes. Until now.

Introducing Yomee, the world’s first automatic yogurt maker—giving you fresh, craft-quality yogurt at a third of the cost of store-bought brands.

We began with a simple but powerful question: How can we enable people to make perfect yogurt at home?

Yomee is our answer. A smart yogurt maker that automates and simplifies the yogurt-creation process—letting you decide exactly what goes inside, and lowering costs by a whopping 70%.

With Yomee, creating perfect yogurt every time from the comfort of your home is effortless and foolproof.

Making yogurt with Yomee is extremely simple:

1. Pour in your favorite milk.

2. Drop in a Yomee pod.

3. Select your yogurt type (using the Yomee app)—and go to bed, fresh yogurt is on the way!

A short 6 hours later, enjoy perfect yogurt: fresh, chilled, and ready to eat (now or later)! And since each pod makes 2 servings, share your yogurt or enjoy it throughout the day. 

 

Sky’s the limit when it comes to the different ways people around the world enjoy eating yogurt: ideal for breakfast, as a midday snack, inside your dinner salad dressing—let your imagination run wild! 

However you eat yours, our Yomee double-wall insulated cup will keep your yogurt fresh and make eating on the go fun. Better yet, our cup comes with an innovative travel lid—letting you store your favorite toppings separate until you’re ready to mix and eat. 

Are you vegan? Lactose intolerant? Love yogurt, but don’t love dairy?

No problem for Yomee. Make 100% dairy-free yogurt: Just use our non-dairy pods together with non-dairy milks—like almond, coconut, soy, or rice milk. A healthy alternative that’s just as good!

*After the campaign, you will be able to select dairy or non-dairy pods with your Yomee kit.

Yogurt is limitless—having as many health benefits as it has preparation styles. Eat it raw, drink it in smoothies, use it to make açaí bowls... Our team has already created hundreds of recipes for the Yomee app, so that you'll never run out of creative food ideas.  

Our free Yomee app will be iOS and Android compatible. Besides offering countless yogurt-based recipes, the app lets you select what yogurt style you want your Yomee to make: a thick Greek-style yogurt, a traditional plain yogurt, or a smoothie-style stirred yogurt. Plus, our app keeps you well informed about every stage of the yogurt-making process, alerting you when the yogurt is heating, cooling, incubating, and ready to eat!

Yomee lets you control ingredients, sweetness, and fat content. From the type of milk you use, to how sweet you want your creation to be, to what fruits (if any!) you want to see swimming inside—the choice is finally yours.

And by using our app’s extensive library of original recipes, you’ll get accurate nutritional information for each yogurt dish you make. 

Tracking calories? Share the details about what you just ate with your Apple Health app or Google Fit directly from the Yomee app.

We take environmental responsibility seriously. That’s why unlike other pod-based appliances, our revolutionary pods are 100% natural and completely soluble (meaning that once used—poof!—the pod is gone for good). Zero waste for a healthier planet.

Made by our partners in New Zealand, our patented Yomee pods use only the highest-quality live cultures. Each pod is good for 6 months, and each creates 10 oz (2 servings) of yogurt at a time. After our campaign, you will be able to select which pods—dairy or vegan—you want to receive with your Yomee kit. 

Out of pods? Order more directly from the Yomee app. Talk about convenient! In future, it will only cost $9.90 for 10 pods (20 servings) or join a subscription to pay even less.

A short 6 hours is all the time Yomee needs to create fresh homemade yogurt. While you sleep, work, or play, in those 6 hours Yomee works to transform regular milk into extraordinary yogurt. 

 

For the curious minds out there, here’s what’s going on behind the scenes: Yomee first boils and stirs the milk for 15 minutes. Next, Yomee cools the milk back down to 115°F (or 46°C—the ideal temperature for live yogurt cultures to thrive). And into this culture-friendly environment, Yomee drops a culture-filled Yomee pod. Some more stirring. Now begins our favorite part: Yomee incubates the milk at a steady temperature for 6 hours, during which the live cultures transform milk into yogurt.

Once the magic is done, Yomee will perfectly chill your yogurt to a cool 50°F (10°C), slowing down the culturing process while developing the delicate flavors that we love fresh yogurt for. 

Though your yogurt is ready to eat in just 6 hours, it can happily remain chilled for up to 48 hours.  

And what about that pod? No need to throw it out—being soluble, it completely dissolved within the first 10 minutes of the process.

 The Yomee yogurt-making kit consists of an automated mixing stand, a dishwasher-safe BPA-free yogurt cup, and a lid that can hold up to 2 toppings separately.

Countries we ship to: USA, Australia, Canada, China, UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Israel, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, China, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam 

 

The inspiration for Yomee came in early 2016, while Ashok Jaiswal, our co-founder and CEO, was sipping on a mango lassi at a friend’s dinner party. Having asked if the lassi was made with homemade yogurt, Ashok was surprised to find people wondering if making yogurt at home was even possible. Determined to find this out for himself, Ashok delved into the art and science of yogurt-making—and soon he was outputting so much of the stuff that he had to start sharing his yogurt with family, friends, and colleagues.

Relying on standard at-home yogurt incubators, Ashok quickly became frustrated with how difficult it was to make consistent and reliable yogurt. Many sketches later—and having successfully transformed a common hot plate to both stir and heat milk—the first working concept of Yomee was born.

The initial design for Yomee began in 2016, with the first functioning prototype refined with Yomee graduating the spring 2017 Food-X accelerator program. The current Yomee prototype fully stirs, incubates, and chills yogurt. A flagship creation of Lecker Labs, the team is still perfecting Yomee’s design, app, and pods.

The Yomee founding team consists of longtime friends — Ashok, Girish & Anindya . All three grew up in India - where fresh homemade yogurt is commonplace.

Much before coming together to build Yomee, Ashok & Anindya had their first taste of startup life as colleagues in Singapore. Since then both have worked in consumer & embedded software, in companies big and small for over a decade. Ashok moved to Hong Kong to pursue an MBA at HKUST following which he met Girish, at Goldman Sachs. Girish, a former equities trader, specializes in meticulous planning and lean operations. This is their second startup together.

Ashok Jaiswal. Co-founder and CEO, a technologist and hacker by trade, though best known for being the resident yogurt chef in every kitchen. Ashok’s Michelin star–worthy yogurt-making skills have landed him the award for the “most awesome friend to invite to a party to bring delicious yogurt!” Ashok’s life motto: Who needs beer when you can have Yomee yogurt!

Terry Hope Romero, Cookbook author, vegan chef, recipe developer, seasoned food-industry consultant, and Kickstarter staff alumni—Terry’s vegan ninja superpowers proved indispensable in creating our Yomee Kickstarter campaign and in developing our unique vegan-friendly Yomee pods. She’s also bananas about almond-milk and pistachio yogurt—and she’s famous for her mean cashew-based tzatziki sauce.

 

Can I use Yomee to make homemade vegan yogurt?

Yes! To make vegan yogurt with soy milk or almond milk, you will need vegan Yomee pods. Yomee vegan yogurt pods are dairy free, contain no animal products, and carry vegan yogurt cultures.

Yomee vegan pods are formulated for soy milk and almond milk, and will be ready for spring 2018 first shipments of Yomee rewards. We anticipate the launch of pods formulated for coconut milk soon after.

How much yogurt does one pod and the Yomee cup make?

One Yomee pod and filling the cup to the fill line will produce 10 ounces of fresh yogurt, equal to two standard (5 ounce) single serving containers of store bought yogurt.

Are the Pods gluten free?

Yes, both dairy yogurt pods and vegan yogurt pods are gluten free.

When I pledge to receive a Yomee do I get Yomee pods?

Yes! Each Yomee includes 10 pods to get you started making yogurt right away. Before we ship your Yomee reward, we will send you a questionnaire to let us know what kind of Yomee pods you want.

How do I reorder Yomee pods?

Use the free Yomee App to reorder your desired quantity and flavors of pods. You can also order more pods and flavors (along with getting free recipes and news) through our website www.yomeeyogurt.com, along with signing up for monthly subscriptions for pods.

When will I receive my Yomee?

We are slated to start shipping the first Yomee rewards in late August of 2018!

How much is the shipping for pods?

Pods can be reordered from the Yomee app for $0.99 each. We estimate shipping to be around $5 for 20 pods. We will also announce a subscription pricing with free shipping.

Can I use Yomee to make kefir or other fermented foods?

We have not yet tested Yomee or the Yomee pods to make kefir or other fermented foods besides yogurt, but we are working on these for a future release and software updates.

Are Yomee pods Kosher, Halal, Organic, non-GMO, Vegan, Gluten Free and Allergen Free?

At this time all Yomee pods are Gluten Free, non-GMO, and vegan pods are of course, vegan.

Of commonly listed allergens, dairy Yomee pods for making dairy yogurt contain milk and thereof naturally contain lactose.

We are working right now to make the pods certified organic. We will also make sure our pods are kosher and halal for the first shipments of rewards in late August 2018.

How much will pod refills and pod subscriptions be? Can we get an estimated cost for US, CA, and some other countries?

Monthly subscriptions are $19.99 for 25 pods 
Packs of 5 are $5

Can Yomee make Kefir and Skyr?

Currently not, but it will just require a software update (not product version update), as making kefir 
and skyr is a similar enough a process as making yogurt. So we see this as a very possible 
extension of the Yomee features. Currently the Yomee software supports plain, Greek and stirred 
yogurt types

What are in the ingredients in the Yomee Pods?

Yomee pods are proprietary base of rice starch, live active yogurt cultures, and in the 
instance of flavored pods, a few additional flavorings. We are continuing to perfect our pods 
and strive to keep our ingredients all natural and free of known allergens.

What flavors do the Yomee pods come in?

At this time Yomee pods are plain and unflavored. We are developing flavored pods in 
strawberry, blueberry and vanilla flavors. Want to see more flavors? Contact us through 
our website yomeeyogurt.com. We want to hear from you and offer the yogurt flavors 
you love the most!

How much power does Yomee use?

Yomee operates on 50 watts.

Does Yomee work with other yogurt cultures?

At this time, Yomee is designed to work with Yomee pods to make only yogurt. The unique 
heating, cooling, chilling, and unique stirring action of Yomee requires uncultured milk and 
Yomee pods to create consistent yogurt results.

Can I use any brand of dairy milk or any brand of vegan milk?

For dairy yogurt, you can use any brand of dairy milk of milk available to you and either 
skim, 2%, or whole. For best results we recommend using only pasteurized, 
homogenized milk.

For soy yogurt and almond milk yogurt, we recommend using plain (unflavored) brands 
with a minimal amount of stabilizers and additives. Currently we use shelf-stable vegan 
milks (tetrapak) varieties in our pod tests and are doing further testing with refrigerated 
soy and almond milk brands.

How does a Yomee Pod work?

The Yomee pod contains the live active bacteria cultures that ferment fresh milk into 
yogurt. The sensors in your Yomee will drop the pods into the cup only after the milk has 
first been heated to 185F degrees and then cooled to 115F degrees. Once the pod is
dropped into the milk, the stirring action of your Yomee will dissolve the pod into the milk 
and begin the yogurt culturing process.

How does Yomee make yogurt?

Yomee has been designed to take the guesswork out of making homemade yogurt. Yomee is 
designed to create three popular styles of yogurt. Use the free Yomee app to select Plain (a 
smooth and creamy style), Stirred (a lighter, pourable style), or Greek (a thick, richly dense 
style), or just press the Yomee button on the base to start Plain yogurt right away. 
First, Yomee stirs and heats the milk to 185°F remove harmful bacteria. Then Yomee cools the 
milk down to a comfortable 115°F degrees, the ideal temperature for yogurt bacteria to get to 
work turning milk into yogurt. Only then Yomee drops a Yomee pod into the milk, stirs and 
dissolves the pod, and after 6 hours of incubation, Yomee turns down the heat to a chill 50°F . In 
about 20-30 minutes, the your yogurt is fully chilled and ready to enjoy!

When do I add my fruits, nuts, or granola toppings?

After the yogurt is made and you are ready to eat it.

Can Yomee make “blended” style flavored yogurt?

Yes! By using a flavored Yomee pod, you can create flavored yogurt right from the start. In 
addition to Plain (unflavored) pods, we are developing pre-flavored pods in popular flavors such 
as Strawberry, Blueberry, Vanilla, and a plain flavor with extra probiotics. Both dairy and vegan 
pods will be available in plain and these flavored varieties.

Is there another flavor of yogurt you want your Yomee to make? Drop us a note a 
yomeeyogurt.com! We want to make the pods in flavors YOU love!

How long can I keep the pods for?

Yomee pods should be consumed within 6 months

How should the pods be stored?

Please store pods In cool, dark, dry place. Pods are shelf stable and do not need to be 
refrigerated

Do I need to take a monthly subscription to buy pods?

No, you buy packages of 5 pods for $5 through our website Yomeeyogurt.com

Can I use the Yomee pod without a Yomee?

The patented design of the pods and our yogurt culture formulas are designed to work 
with your Yomee for delicious, convenient yogurt every time. While the pods contain live 
cultures, without the heating, cooling, chilling, and unique stirring action of Yomee you 
will not receive the same consistent results.

Can I use only half of a Yomee pod ?

No. The pod is compressed materials so it can’t be broken in 2.

Can I use my own yogurt culture with Yomee?

No. Yomee is developed to be used only with the Yomee Pods.

Can Yomee make foods other than yogurt?

Not yet, but Ashok our Founder is already thinking about other flavours and types of yogurt (like 
Kefir) and even yogurt drinks. So stay tuned!

Can I get extra cups for my Yomee?

Yes you can! from yomeeyogurt.com

What material is the cup made with?

the cup is made with a double wall to allow the yogurt to stay cool and fresh for longer. The 
inside wall is glass and outside wall is food grade plastic.

How does Yomee differ to yogurt makers that exist in the market?

Yomee is programmed to heat, cool the milk and drop in the pod that contains the culture. With other yogurt makers you either need to heat the milk or cool it down and you need to manually stir in the culture and sometimes the yogurt doesn't turn out well. No yogurt maker out there does all 3 steps with a press of a button and the recipe in our pods are developed and tested to give you perfect yogurt every time, so you don't wake up to yogurt that didn't turn out well

Will Yomee come with regional plugs (European, UK, US), depending on where it’s being delivered to?

Yomee will come with a power cable/adaptor suitable for us in the country it is being shipped to.

Will I be charged customs tax when the Yomee is shipped to me?

Yomee's declared value is less US$100 and in most countries it should be duty free, same goes for pods.

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The Yomee Kit

$99 USD $169 USD (41% off)
Join the Yomee revolution and be the first to own the world's first automatic yogurt maker. The set comes with 20 pods to enjoy 4 weeks worth of yogurt.
Included Items
  • Exclusive Yomee Recipe Book
  • The Yomee Yogurt Maker
  • 20 Yomee Yogurt Pods
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Extra Yomee Cup

Extra Yomee Cup

$15 USD $25 USD (40% off)
Get an extra cup to make yogurt in Yomee back to back. Each cup comes with double layer cup, pocket to carry toppings & a lid on top. RRP = $25 USD
Included Items
  • Yomee Cup with Lid
Estimated Shipping
August 2018
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The Yomee Kit + 80 pods

The Yomee Kit + 80 pods

$138 USD $238 USD (42% off)
Join the Yomee revolution and be the first to own the world's first automatic yogurt maker. The set comes with 80 pods to enjoy 4 months worth of yogurt. Choice of 10 or 20 pods shipped every month.
Included Items
  • Exclusive Yomee Recipe Book
  • The Yomee Yogurt Maker
  • 20 Yomee Yogurt Pods (4)
Estimated Shipping
August 2018
101 out of 2000 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
The Yomee Twin Pack

The Yomee Twin Pack

$189 USD $338 USD (44% off)
Spread the love and get a Yomee for yourself and a lucky friend. 2 sets of Yomee, each with 20 pods to enjoy 4 weeks worth of yogurt.
Included Items
  • Exclusive Yomee Recipe Book (2)
  • 20 Yomee Yogurt Pods (2)
  • Two Yomee Yogurt Makers
Estimated Shipping
August 2018
11 out of 2000 of claimed
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The Yomee Twin Pack + 160 pods

The Yomee Twin Pack + 160 pods

$268 USD $458 USD (41% off)
Spread the love and get Yomee for yourself and a lucky friend. 2 sets of Yomee, each with 80 pods, to enjoy 4 months of yogurt. Choice of 10 or 20 pods shipped every month.
Included Items
  • Exclusive Yomee Recipe Book
  • 20 Yomee Yogurt Pods (8)
  • Two Yomee Yogurt Makers
Estimated Shipping
August 2018
8 out of 1000 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
The Yomee Club Pack

The Yomee Club Pack

$430 USD $745 USD (42% off)
Team up with a group of friends and start your own yogurt making community. 5 sets of Yomee, each with 20 pods so each of you can enjoy 4 weeks worth of yogurt.
Included Items
  • Exclusive Yomee Recipe Book
  • 20 Yomee Yogurt Pods (5)
  • Five Yomee Yogurt Makers
Estimated Shipping
August 2018
0 out of 500 of claimed
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The Yomee Retail Pack

The Yomee Retail Pack

$790 USD $1,490 USD (46% off)
Become an early partner and be the first to get Yomee in your store. 10 sets of Yomee, each with 20 pods - enough to enjoy 4 weeks worth of yogurt.
Included Items
  • The Yomee Yogurt Maker (10)
Estimated Shipping
July 2018
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