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 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.
First a curry paste, with the machine having no trouble grinding up ingredients for a smooth result using ‘level 3 blend’ (there are 1–4 speeds available). Soups take minutes, whether you’re going for chunky or smooth, and you can blend smoothies too. Will I be giving up my traditional method of cooking soups? I still enjoy a good pot of bubbling soup simmering on the stove. However, I will use this Blend and Cook Soupmaker for quick soups and lunches and recipes that require a really nice pureed texture. From broths to bouillon, this is soup making simplified.
To learn more about what you can do with these kitchen workhorses, click here (if you live in the US) or here (if you live in the UK). One is a more basic device, which simply requires you to add the chopped ingredients and press go. An additional smoothie blender will do the same thing, but without adding heat. Often, there’ll be ‘smooth’ or ‘chunky’ settings, which, naturally, provide a creamy or bitty soup.
The soup function is also very helpful since it keeps all of your food in one container, rather than dirtying multiple dishes. Blending Power
This blender can cut through chunks of ice and hard, raw vegetables such as carrots. Versatility
It has many functions and if you know how to use the multiple functions you really will get a lot out of this machine.
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 cuisinart pots and pans set 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.