Portion sizes in the USA tends to be bigger and hearty soups are more preferred. It is very good value for money, even more so if you pick it up during a sale like we did. 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.
Combine a high power blender from one of the world leaders in kitchenware with a fast boil kettle, and you kind of see where this product is going. Blends perfectly, and it will actually HEAT the soup. Good capacity, but the one fall down is it is LOUD. But she actually made cuisinart griddler elite tomato basil soup for me out of tomatoes and basil and a bit of stock. She just threw it in, hit the button and about 4 minutes of horrible sound, I was eating a hot bowl of soup. This little soup machine only holds so much, what if you want to make cream soup for 8?
We are planning on upgrading on our Morphy Richards Soup Maker back to the Cuisinart Soup Maker, because now as a family of 5 with 5 hungry tummies to fill we need a larger soup maker. If you are on a diet such as Weight Watchers or Slimming World, it’s the perfect budget gadget for loading up on soup. All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. That’s a formula that could put small but mighty lithium miners in the driver’s seats when it comes to setting price per ton.
However, this makes it much closer to cooking on the hob and therefore adapting recipes becomes straightforward. We then used this curry paste in the Thai chicken cuisinart griddler elite & red chilli soup. It’s always best, and most efficient, to boil the water used for the stock or liquid addition just before adding it to the soup-maker.
So from what I can tell it….pretty much does everything. This new version of Cuisinart’s best-selling soup maker features a non-stick cooking plate, making it easier than ever to clean after you’ve made your warming soup. The powerful 500W motor also features 4 different speed settings, making it ideal for everything from tougher veg to leafy greens. It also has a 1000W heating element with two different heat settings and a simmer function. The Soup Maker has a wealth of inspired design features that mean making soup is easy as well as safe.
The first thing I made was a simple lentil soup. The blender lid houses a measuring cup, too. Starting with hot stock gives it a better chance to add more flavour and taste.
When food gets stuck to the cooking plate, it’s very difficult to clean. The high function is particularly impressive, with the boiling motion helping to agitate the soup’s ingredients. The Soup Maker itself stayed steady on the worktop, with a few streams of steam emerging from the lid. It’s also very quiet during operation, only beeping when the timer’s finished counting down. Every once in a while a product pops up that makes you think… Why has no one thought of this before? The Cuisinart SSB1U Soup Maker is just that.
There are three heating levels to choose from – simmer , low and high , which is used to bring soup to the boil. Heat decreases and increases throughout each level. We wished we’d chopped our ingredients for carrot & coriander soup more finely to reduce cooking time and create a finer result.