Ease of Cleaning
The blender comes a part easily and can be washed by hand in minutes. Ease of Use
There are a lot of functions so reading the owners manual was extremely helpful in order to get the most out of the machine. Design
Excellent design and can be stored easily.
But this is a small price to pay for a superior soup. For example, once it’s finished cooking, it’ll bleep, signifying it’s time to blend – most others will automatically blend the soup. Next, adding diced root vegetables required the use of the stir function. It’s a great idea but will only stir the lower portion of the ingredients while chunks are still relatively uncooked, and so it needed some assistance to thoroughly mix the contents. The stir feature is of more use once the stock was introduced and the solid ingredients able to float.
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. 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.
Drizzle with yogurt, top with the crispy prosciutto and sprinkle with cilantro. Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Either because we’re updating the site or because someone spilled coffee on it again.
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.
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.
A full review and comparison of both the Morphy Richards Soup Maker and its rival the cuisinart pots and pans set. Lots of key information to help you choose the right soup maker for you. Kavey Eats was sent a complimentary soup maker for review by Cuisinart. She also found that the simmer button didn’t make things simmer, and she had to use the medium and high settings to achieve this. For her first trial, mum used the sweet potato and red pepper soup recipe provided, though she used yellow pepper instead of red.
Others even have a self-clean mode, though I found you often still need to rinse or scrub in the sink. A keep-warm function maintains the soup’s temperature for a limited time after cooking, up to an hour, in most cases. Usually, you can reheat your soup in the device. The first thing I made was a simple lentil soup. The blender lid houses a measuring cup, too. It is, admittedly, a tad more hands-on than some soup makers – the aforementioned sautéing, for example, requires you to switch between functions during cooking.
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.