Do you recommend a soup maker for homemade soups?

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I like making homemade soups. Like parsnip and apple soup
Beetroot soup

There are so many soups.

I usually use a saucepan and boil everything and then blend with a handheld blender.

I am considering getting a soup maker. I think it would be good to put it into the one container and blend it there too.

Anyone here have a soup maker and would you recommend one?

prseumably if you want to eg saute leeks/onions before adding other veg + liquid then there's still the back and forth?

My soup maker sautees!

I had a well known branded soup maker that lasted little over a year! It's convenient to throw it all in and walk away. I back to using a pan and blender now

Meh, you'll never get the same flavour as soup started with sauted sofrito in a pan.
I've found the nutri bullet much better than a stick blender for getting reeeally smooth soup. Bit of a pain in the arse as you have to let it cool before you bullet in batches. Defo not a quick 20min soup option.

Another Morphy Richards fan here. Like others I had always said a saucepan and a stick blender was all I needed. Then I visited a friend and she made soup using her soup maker - I was an instant convert, got mine secondhand. The main benefit to me is that I can walk away and forget about it, I have a bad track record of burning things on the hob.

I’ll make soup several times a week in the winter, it uses up odd bits of veg. Chuck a couple of Dairylea triangles in if you want it creamy! I make my own stock cubes anyway, so it’s just bung it in and leave it to do its thing. I’m just waiting for the weather to cool down enough to come into use again.

To all of you saying ‘you don’t need one’, you’re being a bit ablest, some of us can’t spend significant amounts of time standing in the kitchen etc. I have an Aldi one, it’s great for me because I can just put everything in and switch it on, and not spend any time standing at the stove stirring, or using a hand blender. I’ve currently got a small pumpkin and a couple of red pepppers in my slow cooker, in a few hours I’ll scoop out the soft cooked pumpkin flesh, dump it in the soup maker with the peppers and a tin of tomatoes & a load of seasonings, then when it’s beeped, add some chorizo crumbs and tea will be ready.

My only complaint is that it’s awkward to clean, if I found one that had a removable ‘pot’ that could go in the dishwasher or at least get dunked in the washing up bowl I’d snap it up.

TBH I always tend to find with specialised appliances that they are an absolute pain to clean. An immersion blender and a bog standard pan work fine and are easy to clean and have loads of other uses so you don't need to store umpteen individual items in your cupboards.

If you treat your ingredients nicely before ‘bunging them in the slow cooker’ you can get a delicious meal out of it. And just to clarify that ‘bunging stuff in the slow cooker’ aren’t my words, it’s what I hear people say followed by - it kind of turned out ok.

I call it Monday bottom of the fridge soup 😂

I love a statement like this 😂

Yes at the end . Maggis powder - the best !

Have had a couple of soup makers over the years, which whilst they are great, they don't last long.
Gone back to saucepan and either cut everything small in a food processor or stick blender.
You get a much bigger batch that way as well, which you can freeze until you need it!

If it would peel and chop the veg I'd have one but otherwise it's not enough of a benefit to merit the kitchen space

I don't recommend, it is a one use gadget. It is much more useful having a multi cooker as it does it all, slow cooks, sautees, pressure cooks and more.

I almost wrote a similar post last week but then decided to just go for it instead of spending all winter thinking about if it would be useful, I thought now was the time to buy.
I bought a daewoo one from Amazon for just under £40. I have made a lentil soup, came out much smoother than making in a pan and whizzing with the hand blender so was soup like and less like baby food. Leek and potato is going in tomorrow. I’m very much a fan of one pot cooking!
The only downside might be cleaning it, I don’t have a dishwasher so not an issue for me, I washed it easily with the sponge on a stick.
It fits perfectly in the wasted corner space on the work surface with the slow cooker and the air fryer so it’s not taken up any useful space.
It feels like it’s been a good buy.

I have one. It’s a pain to clean and I’ve found that tomato based soups can stick to the bottom. I never use it now. Big pan and stick blender is my preference

I use my Cusinart soup maker at least weekly in the Autumn and winter. It doesn't do well with any potato based soups for some reason but I still blend them. I really dislike chunky soup.

I think the only downside is that they can get a bit smelly over time, but I put it on boil with some bicarb.

I love mine. Before Covid I would prep all the veg the evening before and throw it in the soup maker when I got home from work.

Now I prep at lunchtime and switch it on 20 minutes before I finish work (WFH).

My soup maker was an impulse buy in a January sale a few years back and my husband thought i would never use it. I have used it soooooo much. I started taking soup to work a lot in winter as it was hot, filling and nutritious. You just chuck everything in, it's cooks it and whizzes it up.

I stopped using my Morphy Richards one and went back to using a pan and a stick blender, works better as I can taste and ad things as needed.

I have the Morphy Richard with the saute option. Bought it in Covid and absolutely love it. Much smoother soup and a lot less mess than a pan and a blender, so i make soup far more often than i used to . Only soup i dont make in it is my family recipe of Avgolemono soup

I love mine. It means I can put soup on at lunchtime, and then go back to my desk until it's done. If I had to stay close enough to keep half an eye/ear on it, I just wouldn't have time to make soup.

Leek and potato soup, made in an old pan that I have had for many years 😆

I’ve got a soup maker from Tower, it’s fabulous but the electrical part is at the bottom of the jug making cleaning it tricky.
Broccoli and Stilton AMAZING

I thought the same... But I was given one.... It's bloody brilliant. Mostly because the cooking bit doesn't need attending to.

I do chop and fry the onions and garlic etc, then bung it all in. Then leave it to it