There’s a high setting (up to 100C) for bringing liquids up to the boil and a simmer setting which is a lower temperature (up to 80C) and ideal for simmering soups. If you want to stir, you need to press the slow stir button. One of the biggest benefits of soup is its high comfort factor. Nothing, that is, except a bowl of warm homemade soup. With a combination appliance such as this soup maker, the comfort level is pushed even further as it reduces the time spent cooking, giving you more time to relax. What is my verdict after making soup in a blender?
I followed the instructions and it felt like there were a lot of steps. But I really think it would have been easier to cook it on the stove. This would be a very good thing to have if you don’t have a stove.
Dump some cans of stuff together and simmer. But my husband got me this Cuisinart for Christmas because he thought the concept was awesome. So I smiled and said Thanks and had him put it on the counter. A couple of weeks later I felt like I should use it. None of the soups in the book it came with appealed to me.
Choose from the different blending options – from them slow stir function to gently mix ingredients to retain a chunky texture, or blend at the end of the cooking cycle for smoother results. You can peel the vegetables (or use ready peeled if you have them), throw them into the soup maker, add a bit of stock and then let the soup maker do the work. Your setting that you choose on the soup maker will then give you either chunky or smooth soup. It was used for everything from making soups, homemade baby food, my homemade tomato sauce or just when we needed something quickly blending. If you have visited recipethis.com before then you will know that we love our kitchen gadgets.
And with the weather looking every so slightly rainy these next few weeks, there’s no doubt we’ll be turning to home cooked soups a little more often. If you have any questions, suggestions for future reviews or spot anything that has changed in price or availability please get in touch at There’s a lot more to this product than adding the ingredients, selecting a programme and walking away, which could be considered a plus or a minus depending on your approach to cooking. “Soup is one of the simplest foods,” Harris explains, “which sadly means it is often the dumping ground for sub-standard ingredients.” Gwen Pratesi is a James Beard Foundation Award Finalist in Journalism and award-winning travel writer.
The soup maker is designed to help you create delicious homemade soups from start to finish. Even the ability to lightly saute aromatics is integrated. For example, you could start by softening some onions and garlic on the nonstick heater plate, and then add ingredients to blend.
Once you are done, you can store the goblet in the fridge, and it can even ‘self clean’ – just heat it up with some soapy water and switch on the blender for a few moments. It’s perfect for cold drinks too, with ice crushing blades, you can use it all year round. Unlike some soup makers, the Cuisinart is see-through, so you can stay on top of what’s going on in the pot.
It takes 28 minutes to make perfect homemade soup. We figured that when she was old enough we would use it to make her blended baby food, plus it would be big enough for us grown ups to have some soup whenever we wanted to as well. We wished we’d chopped our ingredients for carrot & coriander soup more finely to reduce cooking time and create a finer result. You need to select the cooking mode and temperature, as well as choosing when to stir.
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 pots and pans set 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.
Ease of Cleaning
Not easy to clean at all, you can take it apart somewhat, but it’s still so very hard to really get it cleaned. Ease of Use
It’s easy to use but you won’t get the results you’re looking for most of the time. Design
Very poor design, you can’t even clean it properly which is really gross.