soup maker - are they worth it?

[Ratbagratty]

I make loads of soups this time of year. Someone suggested I brought a soup maker as I was complaining that my blender stick isn't quite up to the job of making smooth soups (tomato skins and grainy texture on some). Are they worth it? any recommendations?

@Ratbagratty, no, tomatoes don’t stain, the jug is stainless steel. I made a batch of tomato soup yesterday - which works out to about 4 good servings. Completely smooth, no skins!

@londonscalling

Does anyone know of a good extra large soup maker please? We are a big family!

What about an instant pot?

I do always find with fresh tomatoes that there are skins left even after blending.

I usually use passata instead

Are they a faff to wash up does anyone know?

I've never had one or seen one or even know anybody who has one, but I have read in various forums that people who have them really like them. When I make sauce or soup using a lot of tomatoes I usually use canned tomatoes, and puree it with either my immersion blender, or small food processor. I don't store the soup in the fridge or freezer in what I make it in. I put it in containers after it is made, so I'm thinking you could simply strain the soup as you decant it.

If it needs straining that is.

I never saw the point if them.until I went to a friends for lunch and had the most delicious soup ever. She'd made it in her soup maker out of frozen veg. So I bought one.

I've got the Morphy Richard's one and its brilliant. Fantastically creamy soup. I use it loads.

Someone further up the thread has asked if they're easy to clean? I'd like to know that too please.

Tomato is the only soup I'll strain through a sieve no matter how I blend it.

No one wants to eat skin and seeds

Looks like it might be worth a go, I generally use fresh tomatoes because I grow them and need to use them up, but will consider tinned / passata. Somehow I had 17 plants this year!! And will strain them next time too.

Oh yes how to clean is a very good question. Can anyone help answer that?

I use mine all the time and I’m on my second.

We make tomato soup with fresh tomatoes and have no problem with skins.

Cleaning is easy if you do it right away, so there are no dried bits (reminder to self)! A swish of the stainless steel interior under the tap. It takes a few seconds more to clean the stick portion to get the blades and top portion clean. A bit like cleaning the blade of a food processor. Obviously nothing can go in the dishwasher but it takes a minute at max.

We make soup 4 times a week or so, always fresh. I think that’s what I like the most, that I don’t need to batch cook, it is less effort to make it fresh each time.

Thank you very much Trut - I was rather hoping all the component bits would go in the dishwasher, like a food processor. Good to know it takes minutes to wash by hand though.

I remove the stalks and simmer whole tomatoes (larger ones cut in two) with an onion and a stock cube for maybe 20 mins. Liquidise the lot and you get lovely fresh flavoured cream of tomato soup.
You could probably add cream but I don't.

There are just two bits @Artforartssake

The base where you put the ingredients and plug in. It has a stainless steel interior and is easy to wash. The top lid which has the motor (invisible, enclosed inside) and an attached long blade that blends the soup. A bit more fiddly but a quick run under the tap and a rub over with a wet sponge works for me.

The Morphy Richards soup maker I have has a self clean function, put a little warm water and washing up liquid in after decanting your soup and it swishes it around and cleans it. Just needs a quick rinse.

What different soups do people make? I love soup but get complaints from the kids about the limited flavours. I tend to stick to leek and potato, tomato, and spicy carrot and lentil

Without a doubt. I love mine. So easy to use. I also have a Morphy Richards.

Thanks very much Trut and Malovitt for the cleaning info.

@malovitt, ooh nice 😀 A self cleaning one!

Now just need one that will chop veggies too! Perhaps one of the expensive thermomix type ones does that too!

Please could I have a link to the Morphy Richards Soup maker? I’d love everyone’s recipes too.

Why not just use tinned tomatoes - then no skins.

@Runningdownthathill - here you go: www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-501014-Brushed-Stainless/dp/B00XMK2GD4?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

If you scroll right down to the very bottom of the page on that Amazon link there are some UK reviews saying that there is an inherent design fault in that Morphy Richards model (and in other models of theirs). Something about tripping the "RCDs" (not sure what that is) but about making the electrics trip? Some are saying the fault doesn't appear immediately. So I would check that out thoroughly before buying that model.

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Thank you!

Looks like that one potentially trips the electrics when used. Very mixed reviews .