I have a sudden urge to buy a soup maker

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It needs to be very simple to use - just throw everything in, and out comes delicious soup. It also needs to be very easy to clean.
Will I get bored of it within days?
Please tell me about your love story with your soup maker. 😁

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Cursed my husband when he bought it, couldn't see why I'd need such a thing when I had a pan and a stick blender. LOVE IT.

I just chuck everything in, don't saute first, comes out brilliantly. So much smoother than you can get it with a blender, no idea why.

What?! Now I must have one!

Loved my soup maker when I first got it, and agree works better than a stick blender. Also less mess as everything just goes in, and sautes the onions etc in the soup maker.

Haven't used it in a few years now though since food prices went up - we don't eat a huge amount of soup and I've found it cheaper to buy soup ready made.

Saucepan & a stick blender, job done.

Which soup maker do I need? A Ninja?

This might be handy, it's another soup maker thread.
You will get 'use a pan and stick blender comments' even though it's not what you asked. 😁

Are soup makers worth it? If so, how do you use yours? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/foodandd_recipes/5021143-are-soup-makers-worth-it-if-so-how-do-you-use-yours

I don't have a fancy one, It's not even a branded name, a supermarket brand.

I love it.

Go check the other thread. Ignore the pot and stick blender repeated comments though.

I find it a useful gadget.

Really? I just use left overs and the last lonely carrot or half onion etc use the veg water etc

Will bulk out with lentils which are cheap as chips.

Yes ignore the pan and blender people.

You can just chuck it in and leave it in a soup maker. Making 2 litres of soup in a pan requires supervision and splattering and more washing up!

I have a very simple one too, blend, chunky and smoothie modes, I usually blend and soup takes 21 minutes. It's called a kettle, you literally have a jug you easily clean out, avoiding the plug in socket, really easy and amazing soups come your way!!

Love ours! We have a ninja. Chuck onions etc in and sauté them in it, then chuck everything else in, hit the appropriate button and amazing soup is ready in 30 mins. I use it loads, whereas I never bothered with a pan and stick blender.

I have a Morphy Richards kettle style. I decided to 'upgrade' to a Ninja at Christmas. Very noisy, and a PITA to clean. I returned it and went back to the MR kettle.

@WittiestUsernameEver Yeah, we rarely have leftovers (big household, many teenagers) and I tend to have quite fancy tastes when it comes to soup Not a fan of a basic vegetable one either.

I always think, will it go the way of the slow cooker and just take up counter space until it gets relegated to on top of the cupboards.. what is different to pan/stick blender except for not having to get out the stick? Surface space is a real premium at ours!

I suppose it would depend on how often you eat soup as to whether it is worth it. Or as per the other thread, pasta sauces, smoothies etc.

I have the Morphy Richard's one as mentioned by a PP and absolutely love it .
Throw it all in walk away and come back to delicious soup !
A joy for my WFH lunches

I've had 2.
The Morphy Richards sauté version stopped working after a month.
Top-of-the-range Lakeland lasted nearly a year (just within warranty) before it developed a crack.
Both returned & money refunded.
My saucepans are over 30 years old & nothing has gone wrong with them.
(Stick blender is much younger, still a teenager.)

I've had my Morphy Richards soup maker over 9 years and it's fine.

Does anybody make soup in a Vitamix? I was wondering about getting a new ridiculously overpriced gadget and I'd rather not have ten gadgets where one would suffice.

Advantages for me:

• No supervision required of boiling liquids
• No splattering of liquids when boiling/blending etc
• Easy to serve from (no soup ladle required)
• easier to lift the 2 litre jug than 2 litres in a giant saucepan.

Nothing wrong with a pan and blender, did use it for years, but find it's just easier to use the soup maker.

A bit like.... Most people use a toaster to make toast. But without all this "well, I've got an open fire and poker for my toast! Has done me just fine for centuries!!!" Nonsense that people get with things people have decided are "gadgets".

See also: dishwashers, where people seem to take some sort of smug pride in spending their time hand washing dishes. Yes, we can all hand wash dishes, but the dishwasher does the job for me, instead of me standing at a sink 45+ minutes a day. But, again, nobody moans on about how they proudly hand wash and scrub and wring their laundry, they bung it in the washing machine like most others. Because it's ok for THAT machine to do work for you, but not the machine that cleans dishes.
People are strange.

Morphs Richards here. The kids even the 10 year old fussy (ASD) will eat anything that comes out of it. Amazing. He even makes his own -chop up a carrot, hand full of spinach, any left over broccoli etc and possibly a tube of tomatoes or fresh tomatoes etc small amount of water - mixed herbs maybe and he will eat 3 bowls worth - wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes. 30 mins top for decent homemade soup.

Also have a nutri bullet and the kids love making their own smoothies and even adding green tea powder, chia and flax etc it’s a Christmas miracle!!

I LOVE my soup maker, MIL bought it for use as a Christmas pressie a few years ago. I was sick and tired of ruining my non-stick pans when using a stick blender.

We have a Morphy Richard’s one similar to this - https://www.morphyrichards.co.uk/products/compact-soup-maker but possibly a slightly larger size.

Just chop and chuck in the veggies, no need to soften/sautee, add liquid and then press the button and off you go - soup in 25ish minutes
It’s also easy to clean - give it a quick swill to rinse it after using, then makes it easier to wash up with a bit of dish soap after dinner.

We originally had a Lakeland one, it got returned after 3 uses as the metal covering inside had started to bubble and flake, so wasn’t fit for purpose.

Thank you all. I really like the idea of being able to leave it without having to watch it.
Can you put in leftover cooked veg?

I have the Morphy Richards one too, it's great and it's probably my second most used small appliance
It's great if you WFH, chop the veg in the morning, switch it on 30 mins before lunch and then you have left overs for a couple more days lunch. Potato and leek and curried butternut squash is my favourite, using up the left overs from the fridge or frozen packs of butternut squash

Yes. Just chuck it all in.

Leave it to the end if you want.