Inventor story
Old Friends, New Ideas
Adam and Susanna met at Keele University in 1991 and have been firm friends ever since. Here they are — graduation day in ’94, and a few decades later, back on campus with a bit less hair and a lot more tofu.

Lifelong fans of plant-based eating, the two bonded over food, friendship, and finding better ways to live lightly on the planet. What they didn’t expect was to one day invent the world’s best-loved tofu press.
"One broken rib, one soggy tofu disaster, and one bright idea later — the Tofuture Tofu Press was born."
Tofu, Tins, and a Bright Idea

Tofuture began with a trampoline injury and a tofu press made of cookbooks, beans, and blind optimism. When that precarious setup collapsed — bruising ribs and soaking half the kitchen — Adam and Susanna knew there had to be a better way. So they invented one.


What followed was years of tinkering, testing, and tofu tastings. They brought their press to markets, wrote recipes, and championed plant-based living across the UK. The Tofuture Tofu Press has now sold over 500,000 units worldwide, transforming soggy tofu into something worth celebrating.


Adam and Susanna are now retired — their kids grown, their backpacks packed — and are off traveling the world. But their legacy lives on in kitchens everywhere, one perfectly pressed block of tofu at a time.


And here’s a more recent photo: all dressed up and ready to pitch the Tofu Press on Dragons’ Den. But that’s a whole other story…