We’ll be back just as soon as we finish the update or clean up the coffee. Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct. Founded in 2003, Trusted Reviews exists to give our readers thorough, unbiased and independent advice on what to buy. The Instant Pot is more in your mid-price range with an average price of $80 and the SoyaJoy is priced at approximately $140 and is more in line with the Cuisinart brand. It just comes down to how much soup you want to make and how often you will blend the soup for which one you should buy.
The lid comes with a hole, filled by a measuring cup, which allows you to add ingredients during cooking; ideal if you’ve got ingredients that cook at different speeds. The stir function ensures everything mixes together perfectly – a squash and red pepper soup I tried was superb. The great thing about Cuisinart’s electric soup makers is that they also double as regular blenders, allowing you to create cold smoothies, shakes, baby food, salad dressings, and more. Thanks to their razor-sharp blades, they can even crush ice cubes, which is not something every regular blender is capable of!
Soup is also incredibly easy to cook, and a soup maker renders the process even simpler. While not exactly an essential kitchen item, a soup maker can save plenty of time. All the devices tested here cook up a smooth, creamy meal in between 20 to 30 minutes.
For her second trial, she made prawns in tomato sauce, a pasta sauce recipe also from the recipe booklet. You need time to chop, slice, sauté and stir—which occupies all your burners and leaves Burj Khalifa-sized stack of pots and pans in your sink at task’s end. Nothing quite beats a soul-warming, homemade soup.
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.
But this is a small price to pay for a superior soup. For example, once it’s finished cooking, it’ll bleep, signifying it’s time to blend – most others will automatically blend the soup. Next, adding diced root vegetables required the use of the stir function. It’s a great idea but will only stir the lower portion of the ingredients while chunks are still relatively uncooked, and so it needed some assistance to thoroughly mix the contents. The stir feature is of more use once the stock was introduced and the solid ingredients able to float.
Whenever the functionality changes, for example from cook to blend, you’ll hear a bleep. However, the lid had a hole to add ingredients, which is good, and it wasn’t very loud at all. Helpfully, the lid also has an in-built memory cuisinart pots and pans set function, useful if, say, you’ve forgotten an ingredient, or want to add something halfway through the cook. I’d suggest waiting a couple of minutes after you’ve finished before removing the lid, as it gets quite hot.
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 Soup Maker 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.