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.
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.
For her second trial, she made prawns in tomato sauce, a pasta sauce recipe also from the recipe booklet. You need time to chop, slice, sauté and stir—which occupies cuisinart pots and pans set all your burners and leaves Burj Khalifa-sized stack of pots and pans in your sink at task’s end. Nothing quite beats a soul-warming, homemade soup.
However, this makes it much closer to cooking on the hob and therefore adapting recipes becomes straightforward. Blending can be done once any of the programmes have finished. In addition, you can blend or pulse cold liquids such as smoothies. Every once in a while a product cuisinart griddler elite pops up that makes you think… Why has no one thought of this before? The Cuisinart SSB1U Soup Maker is just that. Combine a high power blender from one of the world leaders in kitchenware with a fast boil kettle, and you kind of see where this product is going.
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.
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 cuisinart pots and pans set, 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.
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.
The lid comes with a hole, filled by a measuring cup, which allows you to add ingredients during cooking; ideal if you’ve got ingredients that cook at different speeds. The stir function ensures everything mixes together perfectly – a squash and red pepper soup I tried was superb. The great thing about Cuisinart’s electric soup makers is that they also double as regular blenders, allowing you to create cold smoothies, shakes, baby food, salad dressings, and more. Thanks to their razor-sharp blades, they can even crush ice cubes, which is not something every regular blender is capable of!
Whether you are making chunky or smooth soups, jams, sauces for pasta, curries or tasty risottos you can complete every stage of your recipe in the Cuisinart Soup Maker. Watch your ingredients as they cook inside the robust glass jar, adjust the heat settings, add ingredients and stir as required to achieve perfect results. While its basic design has evolved from that of a standard blender, the Cuisinart SSB1U Soup Maker promises to tackle much more than just blitzing food and ice. A booklet of recipes is also included for inspiration. Cuisinart’s automatic soup makers take the hard work out of creating healthy homemade soups from scratch. These ingenious kitchen companions sauté, cook, simmer and blend your favorite soup ingredients into tempting hot soups in a matter of minutes.