Soup Makers (1 Viewer)

[Allan & Loren]

Bought one yesterday in sainsbury £46.99 after reading through this thread and made sweet potato & avocado soup from my Covent Garden soup book I bought for £3 at the motorway services. Really impressed and now a total soup maker convert!

 

[Stacetop]

My opinion was why would I waste £50 on a soup maker when I have a pan and a blender!!

So I bought one, the MR sauté and soup maker. It still takes time to chop the veg but then it's all in the soup maker and you can clean up and walk away! Got it last week and have made 5 types already!

Yes probably a gimmick but it saves time and mess in the kitchen!! A worth while gadget in my newly formed opinion!!

 

[Allan & Loren]

My opinion was why would I waste £50 on a soup maker when I have a pan and a blender!!

So I bought one, the MR sauté and soup maker. It still takes time to chop the veg but then it's all in the soup maker and you can clean up and walk away! Got it last week and have made 5 types already!

Yes probably a gimmick but it saves time and mess in the kitchen!! A worth while gadget in my newly formed opinion!!

That was my thought too but totally changed my mind. Making broccoli and Stilton today for lunch. Mmmm

 

[Ridgeway]

Resurrecting an old thread.

Any more soup maker views and opinions ? Quite keen on buying one based on simple soup making (mainly vegetable) but want to extend my range of soups. I like the idea that i can prepare the base (hopefully 5mins) then leave it be whilst i get on with work and then have a decent lunch ready for say 4 people without too much hassle.

Do they really work that well ?

Are they a pain to clean (often is the failing of automated food process machines at home) and basically do they work ?

 

[Lenny HB]

Daughter bought the boss one for previous Christmas it's an MR.
Very impressed with it but the rest of the family don't like it when I make the soup, something to do with the chille I put in it, it's a man thing, chille that is.

Edit:
Oh dear caught on an old thread again.

 

[Lenny HB]

Do they really work that well ?

Yes very well.

Are they a pain to clean (often is the failing of automated food process machines at home) and basically do they work ?

Easy to clean.

 

[Sundowners]

My only gripe, they don’t make enough, I like to make a big batch, eat what we want then freeze the rest. Sold mine. I use the pressure cooker and a blitzer. Just finished our batch of pumpkin soup, ready to make another batch using the rest of a large pumpkin we grew this year.

 

[Bailey58]

Coming back to this I forgot to mention ours sometimes burns on the bottom but the instructions (which I read recently) does warn about this. Easily cleaned with a bit of a soak.

 

[Zoobec]

Not a soup maker as such, but I recently got a nutribullet rx blender, which also has a soup making setting. Raw veg and stock etc to soup in 7 minutes. We bought it for the blending really, but I’m so impressed with the soup maker setting that I make soup most days. If you want to use potato then that has to be cooked first. Very easy to clean, I just pour out the soup, give it a good rinse, then half fill with water and a squirt of washing up liquid, a quick blitz and its clean.

i can’t compare It with a true soup maker as I’ve never used one.

eta should have specified this is for use at home, not in the van!

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

We have one buried in the cupboard somewhere, Mrs CC thought she was going to make soup, yeah that lasted 2 goes until she gave up and went back to buying Covent Garden Cartons

 

[Ridgeway]

Sounds good !

Think i'll order one and also get a simple recipe book to expand my range.....

 

[movan]

Advice please, what is the benefit of these over a very large pan and just blending, (if you even want to... Cos I like chunky soups), please? Thank uou.

 

[Zoobec]

Advice please, what is the benefit of these over a very large pan and just blending, (if you even want to... Cos I like chunky soups), please? Thank uou.

For me, it’s time. I like chunky or thick soups, can’t do soup with lumps in the nutribullet but I just use less liquid in some recipes to make them thick.

 

[Minxy]

All the soup maker does is cook it quicker and mush it up if you want it to. You still have to prepare all the veg etc (and meat if required) first and this is what a lot of people forget about when they buy them because it says you can have soup in X minutes ... you can but not when you add in the preparation time.

 

[Ridgeway]

Advice please, what is the benefit of these over a very large pan and just blending, (if you even want to... Cos I like chunky soups), please? Thank uou.

That was exactly what i had wondered and overall the benefits seem to be:

1) less things to clean up (that is dependant if the soup maker itself is easier to clean, overall they seem to be)
2) automated process: prep ingredients, switch on and walk away: they stir, cook and then blitz if needed
3) can be preset on a timer so you can prep in the morning and then it will cook just prior to lunch to be ready by 12:30


Least that's all the theory i've read

I've ordered one last night so i'll either be a soup maker lover or it will be consigned to the cupboard by the end of the month.....

 

[supervario]

there a must pea and ham 500grams frozen pears some bacon bits knor glutton free stock pot 20 min done

 

[Ridgeway]

there a must pea and ham 500grams frozen pears some bacon bits knor glutton free stock pot 20 min done

think i'll copy that, sounds nice

 

[Lenny HB]

That was exactly what i had wondered and overall the benefits seem to be:

1) less things to clean up (that is dependant if the soup maker itself is easier to clean, overall they seem to be)
2) automated process: prep ingredients, switch on and walk away: they stir, cook and then blitz if needed
3) can be preset on a timer so you can prep in the morning and then it will cook just prior to lunch to be ready by 12:30


Least that's all the theory i've read

I've ordered one last night so i'll either be a soup maker lover or it will be consigned to the cupboard by the end of the month.....

That about sums it up.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

All the soup maker does is cook it quicker and mush it up if you want it to. You still have to prepare all the veg etc (and meat if required) first and this is what a lot of people forget about when they buy them because it says you can have soup in X minutes ... you can but not when you add in the preparation time.

Currently making chicken soup using the left overs. In a saucepan the traditional way.......

 

[Minxy]

there a must pea and ham 500grams frozen pears some bacon bits knor glutton free stock pot 20 min done

10 mins max with a pressure cooker including prep.

 

[supervario]

You might know A LADY WILL COME ALONG WITH A BETTER WAY PUTTING ALL US MEN UNDER PRESUREDONT FORGET TO FRY THE BACON BITS FIRST

 

[TDub49]

Morphy Richards Total Control is the Which? Best Buy in the category, if that's what you are after. My soup maker is Her Indoors and very good she is too.

 

[Tombola]

Great for small amounts, for just me and my wife I use it.

when I do some for us all 5 of us I prefer a pan and make "overs" for freezing too

 

[Janine]

I batch cook Green Soup, freeze it and eat a portion every day Monday to Friday with peanut butter on toast. (Weekends, I don't do 'healthy' )

Bag of frozen broccoli, half a bag of peas and some frozen spinach boiled up for 10 minutes with a couple of stock cubes and then blitzed with a hand blender. Costs about £1.25 for 10 portions. Nice!

 

[reckless]

I just stumbled across this jug soup maker on offer at Lakeland half-price at £39.99.

Lakeland Jug Soup Maker in soup makers at Lakeland

Compact jug-style soup maker. Home-made soup in 40 minutes. Smooth and chunky soup programmes. Also steams and mixes. Easy-to-use control panel. 2.5 litre bowl – 1 litre working capacity.

www.lakeland.co.uk

Its smaller capacity at 1L so may suit some better than the larger machines. It also makes sauces and doubles as a steamer.

I bought a Drew & Cole soup maker from FB Marketplace for £10, its brilliant I use it all the time. Definitely not a gadget that will be parked at the back of a cupboard

Karen

 

[Pekepal]

Think mine was £60 from Argos for our Morphy Richards. (Though. It was a present so was not supposed to know)

I got mine for £50.00. excellent buy. Does enough for two people. Just shop around. ao.com might be worth a try. Free delivery if you are prepared to wait a few days. Got mine from Amazon.

 

[Pekepal]

Coming back to this I forgot to mention ours sometimes burns on the bottom but the instructions (which I read recently) does warn about this. Easily cleaned with a bit of a soak.

I read somewhere that just a small drop of oil in bottom stops veg sticking. So far this seems to work.

 

[two]

If you have a spare grand, get a Thermomix.
It'll do more than soup for that price, and probably make your eyes water.

 

[JJ]

Soup makers?

An electric toy that makes soup?

JEEEEEEEEZ!

These marketing men see loads of folk with spare cash and certainly know how to take it from them...

Soup makers... I don't believe it...!


JJ

 

[Pekepal]

Soup makers?

An electric toy that makes soup?

JEEEEEEEEZ!

These marketing men see loads of folk with spare cash and certainly know how to take it from them...

Soup makers... I don't believe it...!


JJ

You’d better believe it! Excellent, speedy and only one item to wash up! Sometimes it’s really nice to indulge.