Review: Cuisinart Soup Maker and Blender

When Cuisinart offered me one to review, I asked my mum, Mamta, to put it through its paces, as she regularly makes soups at home. This burly blender is a pain to clean, as its blades aren’t removable. Navigating my fingers around the sharp metal to pick out pieces of lentil was a challenge. If you make a lot of soup, investing in a good soup machine will save you time and effort. Read our review of this Cuisinart model to see how it performed in our tests.

We’ll be back just as soon as we finish the update or clean up the coffee. Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct. Founded in 2003, Trusted Reviews exists to give our readers thorough, unbiased and independent advice on what to buy. The Instant Pot is more in your mid-price range with an average price of $80 and the SoyaJoy is priced at approximately $140 and is more in line with the Cuisinart brand. It just comes down to how much soup you want to make and how often you will blend the soup for which one you should buy.

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Sign up for price drop alerts and begin tracking this product by completing the form below. A fairly basic-looking, utilitarian design, which is rather paired back in terms of bells and whistles. Yet it’s bigger than many at 1.6 litres, making it a good, cheap option for a family of four. It’s also light, quiet, and comes with a brush and scouring pad for scrubbing off those tenacious soup residues. Overall, a strong soup maker which allows for more customisation, but let down by being large and weighty.

Or alternatively you have the SoyaJoy kitchen gadget that makes soup, soy milk and a few other things and is more in the style of a soup maker. But if you are outside of the UK, then you won’t find the same choice in soup makers. You get what you pay for, the Morphy Richards Soup Maker is really cheap compared to the Cuisinart Soup Maker. The Cuisinart Soup Maker had a much better blender and a capacity to bulk cook soup. Its easy to clean and we love also using it for if we just want a quick batch of soup to go with dinner.

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Soup is also incredibly easy to cook, and a soup maker renders the process even simpler. While not exactly an essential kitchen item, a soup maker can save plenty of time. All the devices tested here cook up a smooth, creamy meal in between 20 to 30 minutes.

It was delightfully smooth and creamy, without any trace of chunky carrot, and not watery at all. This was following a recipe from the booklet, which was as straightforward as they come. cuisinart griddler elite When ready (usually 30 minutes), you have to press the blend button to whiz everything together. My favourite ever recipe with the soup maker has to be my homemade tomato sauce.

Today, we have millions of users a month from around the world, and assess more than 1,000 products a year. We are planning on upgrading on our Morphy Richards Soup Maker back to the , because now as a family of 5 with 5 hungry tummies to fill we need a larger soup maker. If you are on a diet such as Weight Watchers or Slimming World, it’s the perfect budget gadget for loading up on soup.

All soup makers make a bit of a racket when blending, but some are noisy during cooking too. The blender makes smoothies in no time at all, too. More sophisticated models come with additional functions, some of which are useful, though they tend to drive up the prices. Some have a sauté function, to brown off onions and garlic, for example, for added depth of flavour or colour.

The base of the glass jug had some overcooked food stuck to it, but this was easily cleaned off with a brush. The recipe booklet offers a good spread of recipes – jam, chutney, risotto, smoothie, nut milk, curries and soups. You can strip the process back to basics if you like but we feel the usefulness of this product has the potential to grow and grow as you become more familiar with it. As this machine involves more than simply pressing a button, we began with two of the provided recipes.