If you have small children, its perfect for fast lunches or for pureed baby food. It takes just 20 minutes to produce amazing homemade soup. When you first start weaning your baby off the breast milk, you can puree all their first fruit and vegetables and it can be a real time saver.
You might even need to use a silicone spatula a time or two before your liquids are added. The first thing I made was a simple lentil soup. The best thing about soup makers is how hands-free soup making can become. Instead of having to boil vegetables in a pan, then get out the blender or the food processor, it can all be done at once in one small sized kitchen gadget. We started by sautéing onions on low for a Scotch broth, with the heating plate helping to release the aroma and taste of the onions.
The name may be uncomplicated and accurately reflect the simple nature of soup, but this blender-meets-heater is all business. 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.
Our bakeware is perfect for pleasing a crowd or spending quality time with your own little sous chef. Overall, a strong soup maker which allows for more customisation, but let down by being large and weighty. “Soup is one of the simplest foods,” Harris explains, “which sadly means it is often the dumping ground for sub-standard ingredients.” Robert Welch Signature Kitchen Knife.12cm blade hand-honed to perfect angle. Fully forged from single piece of German stainless steel.
Many of the latest designs offer settings that let you choose the consistency of your soup, be it chunky and textured or silky and smooth. Also, look for a manual blending mode that allows you to tailor the finish to your taste should you want to create something in between the two. While a soup maker isn’t an essential buy, it has fast become the secret tool in any professionally inspired kitchen kit. The best soup makers can create a delicious soup – be it a simple, creamy tomato and rosemary or a more complex chicken and tarragon – in under 30 minutes. You may add more ingredients by lifting the measuring cup from the lid and dropping ingredients through the lid opening. When making soup, fill the contents of the glass jar only to the 48-oz.
The instructions state that veg should be chopped into small centimetre cubes, before adding to the blender. Then you press one of two settings , and you’re good to go. Additionally, there are compote and smoothie functions for desserts and breakfasts. Some soup makers, generally the cheaper type, look a bit like kettles, while the pricier ones, usually made of glass, bear a closer resemblance to a traditional blender. Generally, the basic, metal models are fairly light, while a more high-tech device will be heavier.
The advantage for me is that there’s only one thing to wash up instead of saucepan, stick blender and jug. Inevitably I used to end up with blended soup up the wall, over the worktop and usually me! However it just works differently to a hob by allowing cuisinart pots and pans set the heat to dissipate through the liquid rather than continual bubbling. As you can’t blend while heating like many soup makers which offer a smooth setting, it does mean you need to chop vegetables well to ensure you end up with a smooth consistency.