http://www.healthytraders.com/soyquick-deluxe-tofu-p-3253.html

Well the SDZ4 Soymilk maker made by that company is indispensible for making both raw and cooked milks and I use mine nearly daily for making hemp seed milk and almond milk, but that tofu press has proven to be pretty useless. It is made out of a rather thin plastic that doesn't hold it's shape under pressure very well and when the best way I have found to make a firm tofu with it is to get an 8 inch machinists "C" clamp and wrench the hell out of it, it didn't take too long to get sick of it. Also, it takes about an hour to make enough batches of soymilk, boil them, and coagulate them before you get to using the press. So personally, mine lasted a few weeks before I decided that it was a better use of my time to just buy blocks of tofu.

HEMP MILK, really?? You must not be in the USA, where do you get the seeds to make hemp milk?  My son loves hemp milk but it is so expensive, I have a soy milk maker and if I could make my own hemp milk I would, but I don't think I can get hemp seeds here in the USA, aren't they illegal?

Also thank you for your post, now you have me considering if the $20 is worth the money.  I was wondering if it was worth it. 

Is there any brands of tofu that you all have found to be better?  Those blocks in the produce section of the grocery store are pretty bland.  I so miss that oriental market in Syracuse with the fresh made tofu...

No, we can have hemp seeds here. Granted, we have to buy from Canada and it has to be sterilized to be infertile by international law. I buy 5 gallon buckets of it from here: http://www.hempseed.ca/hemp-seed.ihtml . I get it in the 25 lbs bucket and it lasts about a year with making milk several times a week.

As for tofu, if I was serious about making it, I decided that the most effective way would be to go find a really sturdy bread pan that has vertical sides, drill a whole bunch of holes in it, and than take a second pan and a couple of "C" clamps and crank the whole thing down. I searched forever trying to find a decent mold, but to no avail... all trails let back to that one at Soyquick. If you really wanted to try it, I would seriously just give you mine if I knew where it was.

Tofu brands?
I don't know what to tell you as you are on the other side of the country from me. If you have them Safeway/Vons/Whatever else they call themselves: "O" Organics tofu is decent for run of the mill and they have both Nigari and Calcium Carbonate coagulants. I personally would go look for Asian Markets. We have a number a local tofu manufacturers that pretty much only sell to local markets that make really nice stuff at the same price - and often cheaper than the supermarkets. I assume you would have the same thing going on. Putting "tofu" into Google Maps often will find specialty tofu shops as well.

I've seen an ad for peanut tofu before. I wonder if it tastes peanutty..

OR, I like the looks of this press!

http://www.soymilkmaker.com/order.html

I somehow have never seen them before - probably because I never went looking for Nigari coagulant. I think I will get their Cedar kit, and give this another go.