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.
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.
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 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.
Soup is also incredibly easy to cook, and a soup maker renders the process even simpler. While not exactly an essential kitchen item, cuisinart pots and pans set 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.
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.
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.
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.