ChefPaw® Dog Food Maker

The ChefPaw Dog Food Maker is an all-in-one countertop pet food maker that helps pet parents make fresh homemade dog food at home. It is designed to help weigh, chop, mix, and cook ingredients into fresh meals with guidance from the ChefPaw App.

ChefPaw can prepare a fresh batch of homemade dog food in about 40 minutes.

The ChefPaw Dog Food Maker can make up to 6.4 lb of fresh dog food per batch, making it easier to prepare multiple meals at once.

ChefPaw combines several functions into one appliance. It can chop, mix, blend, and cook ingredients, but it does not build internal pressure like a pressure cooker.

The ChefPaw App is strongly recommended because it provides recipes, pet profiles, serving guidance, grocery lists, nutrition breakdowns, and step-by-step cooking instructions designed to work with the ChefPaw Dog Food Maker.

Yes. ChefPaw Dog Food Maker owners receive app access included with their machine. No separate app subscription is required for machine owners.

ChefPaw can help reduce the long-term cost of fresh feeding because you purchase and prepare your own ingredients at home instead of paying for pre-made fresh dog food subscriptions. Actual savings depend on your dog’s size, recipe choices, ingredient costs, and feeding routine.

ChefPaw may be helpful for pet parents who want more control over ingredients. You can choose recipes and ingredients based on your dog’s needs and avoid ingredients your dog does not tolerate. For dogs with diagnosed allergies, medical conditions, or therapeutic diet needs, consult your veterinarian before changing diets.

ChefPaw is designed primarily for cooked fresh pet food recipes. If you feed raw or partially raw diets, consult your veterinarian or a qualified pet nutrition professional to make sure your dog’s diet is appropriate and safely prepared.

The ChefPaw bowl (is dishwasher safe) should be cleaned after each batch, especially when cooking meat, fish, oils, or other fresh ingredients. Follow the cleaning instructions included with your machine to keep the bowl, blade, lid, and components in good condition.

Our recipes actually go beyond AAFCO and NRC standards which are surprisingly limited in scope. AAFCO standards only provide recommended minimums for 36 nutrients and recommended maximums for 12 nutrients. AAFCO is also based per kg of food without regard for the size or activity level of the dog. The NRC standards provide recommended amounts for the same 36 nutrients as AAFCO, recommended minimums for 18 nutrients, and recommended maximums for 6 nutrients. Those NRC standards are also based on a 33lbs dog eating 1000 calories per day without regard to activity level or the needs of dogs significantly smaller or larger than 33 lbs.

Both the NRC and AAFCO ignore many nutrients that veterinarians and modern science indicate are key. For example, while many vets and scientific researchers support the conclusion that the nutrient Taurine is important for dog cardiac health, the NRC/AAFCO only recommends taurine for cats. More commonly recognized nutrients like cholesterol are also absent from official AAFCO/NRC standards.

In order to go beyond AAFCO and NRC standards, we custom-developed our patent-pending ChefPaw app which tracks 68 nutrients and then compares the nutrients in a recipe with the unique profile of your pet. Size, activity level, food allergies, food intolerances, and health conditions dramatically affect the nutritional needs of each dog. The ChefPaw dog food maker, the ChefPaw app, and ChefPaw suggested recipes are the latest game-changing developments from our team of professionals at Innovet Pet Products who have been making cutting-edge pet products since 2005. Every aspect of ChefPaw is also developed with the consultation of licensed veterinarians, veterinary nutritionists, and CVFT's.

Additionally, like humans, dogs appreciate and are better off with variety in their diet. Accordingly, the ChefPaw app analyzes the nutritional impact of not just 1 recipe, it analyzes the nutritional impact of an entire meal plan using many different recipes. This way the emphasis no longer has to be on finding artificial ways to get each recipe to hit 100% of nutritional goals, instead the emphasis can be more meaningful - finding the best combinations of recipes to naturally hit 98.8% of the nutritional goals, then nutritional supplements are only needed to cover the final 1.2%

Despite their limitations, the AAFCO and NRC are a great starting point for developing any dog food recipe, therefore ChefPaw customers wanting to create or compare any recipe to those standards can easily do so in the ChefPaw app by entering a pet profile for an adult 33 lbs dog with a high activity level. The resulting nutrient recommendations will be in line with AAFCO/NRC standards. 

The suggested ChefPaw recipes are general recipes based on commonly available ingredients from grocery stores in the USA. All pet food recipes require some nutritional supplementation in order to be considered balanced to AAFCO or NRC standards. Chefpaw’s dietary supplement is included with Chefpaw's suggested recipes in order to supplement only the most common nutritional deficiencies. We can guarantee that our suggested recipes will be delicious and nutritious however we cannot guarantee they will be adequate for the specific needs of your particular pet. Custom recipes based on your pet's unique medical history can only be obtained by a licensed veterinarian.

Yes, we offer Affirm and Shop Pay. Affirm will offer more financing options and allow you to pay one monthly installment + interest over the timeframe you choose. Shop Pay will offer interest free installments broken down into 4 total payments over the course of every 2 weeks.

We would like to provide you with some essential product information to take into consideration. The ChefPaw Dog Food Maker operates on a voltage of 110 VAC at 60Hz, however most European outlets supply power at 240 VAC at 50Hz. If you are situated in an area where European outlets are predominant, you may require a voltage converter transformer to ensure the proper operation of your ChefPaw Dog Food Maker. Please let us know if you are interested in purchasing a ChefPaw unit set up for a 240VAC. If traveling internationally with a standard ChefPaw set with standard US 110VAC power using a maximum of 1500 watts, we recommend using a 240 to 110 VAC converter/transformer that can handle at least 2000 watts.