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 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. But the reason it came up trumps is not aesthetic.
To learn more about what you can do with these kitchen workhorses, click here (if you live in the US) or here (if you live in the UK). One is a more basic device, which simply requires you to add the chopped ingredients and press go. An additional smoothie blender will do the same thing, but without adding heat. Often, there’ll be ‘smooth’ or ‘chunky’ settings, which, naturally, provide a creamy or bitty soup.
Others even have a self-clean mode, though I found you often still need to rinse or scrub in the sink. A keep-warm function maintains the soup’s temperature for a limited time after cooking, up to an hour, in most cases. Usually, you can reheat your soup in the device. The first thing I made was a simple lentil soup. The blender lid houses a measuring cup, too. It is, admittedly, a tad more hands-on than some soup makers – the aforementioned sautéing, for example, requires you to switch between functions during cooking.
The soup function is also very helpful since it keeps all of your food in one container, rather than dirtying multiple dishes. Blending Power
This blender can cut through chunks of ice and hard, raw vegetables such as carrots. Versatility
It has many functions and if you know how to use the multiple functions you really will get a lot out of this machine.
The base of the glass jug had some overcooked food stuck to it, but this was easily cleaned off with a brush. The recipe booklet offers a good spread of recipes – jam, chutney, risotto, smoothie, nut milk, curries and soups. You can strip the process back to basics if you like but we feel the usefulness of this product has the potential to grow and grow as you become more familiar with it. As this machine involves more than simply pressing a button, we began with two of the provided recipes.
I have used my soup maker for making homemade sauces, hummus, pie filling and an endless supply of baby food. The idea behind the cuisinart griddler elite is an all-in-one cooking and blending machine for making soups and sauces. The blender worked well with creamy soups, too. With many other devices, you choose your function and it cooks and blends within a certain time frame.
Sign up for price drop alerts and begin tracking this product by completing the form below. A fairly basic-looking, utilitarian design, which is rather paired back in terms of bells and whistles. Yet it’s bigger than many at 1.6 litres, making it a good, cheap option for a family of four. It’s also light, quiet, and comes with a brush and scouring pad for scrubbing off those tenacious soup residues. Overall, a strong soup maker which allows for more customisation, but let down by being large and weighty.