Add the carrots, spices, thyme, salt and broth. Cover and stir a few times to combine ingredients. Set timer for 20 minutes and temperature on High. Once mixture comes to a boil, set timer for 30 minutes and temperature on Medium. Stir once or twice while soup is simmering. If they are not fully soft, add additional time on Medium.
The Cuisinart SSB1U Soup Maker is just that. 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. The Soup Maker and Blender is as sleek an appliance as I’ve seen. With its glistening charcoal finish and easy-to-read bright red LED displays, it’s like something out of the dashboard of a Bentley.
The name may be uncomplicated and accurately reflect the simple nature of soup, but this blender-meets-heater is all business. Now, the food preparation we can handle. Bring a state-of-the-art soup maker into the equation, and that changes everything. Nothing quite beats a soul-warming, homemade soup. And with the weather looking every so slightly rainy these next few weeks, there’s no doubt we’ll be turning to home cooked soups a little more often. Great soup, however, is an undertaking.
But I really think it would have been easier to cook it on the stove. This would be a very good thing to have if you don’t have a stove. Put a little soapy water in, turn it on and rinse. I made smoothies a couple of days later. This thing pulverizes ice very quickly. We have made smoothies several times since.
Once you are done, you can store the goblet in the fridge, and it can even ‘self clean’ – just heat it up with some soapy water and switch on the blender for a few moments. It’s perfect cuisinart soup maker for cold drinks too, with ice crushing blades, you can use it all year round. The blender seen here is more than meets the eye. It can also mix together ingredients for a hot soup.
If you cut your vegetables with any bit of thickness, they don’t cook through well at all I don’t want a crunch in my soup and I don’t know of anyone else that does either. Last night, I made a cream of broccoli soup with the soupmaker. I heated up the heat plate for 10 minutes on the medium setting, then I added some oil and half an onion and raised the heat to the high setting. I stirred the onions a few times using the stir button, and then added broccoli florets and chicken stock. The soup cooked on high for about 15 minutes, and I lowered the heat to medium once it came to a boil. Once everything was cooked, I turned the heat off, added some seasoning and a little cream, and blended everything together.
It’s easy to use and exceptionally versatile, too. And I’m not talking simply making soups, smoothies and shakes. The blender worked well with creamy soups, too.
Navigating my fingers around the sharp metal to pick out pieces of lentil was a challenge. And now that autumn is in full swing, it’s officially soup season. This easy version can be made any night of the week.
When carrots are fully cooked through, turn unit off. Starting with speed 1 and gradually raising to speed 3, blend soup until completely smooth, about 2 minutes. In addition to its stainless steel blades and four speeds, the 900-watt appliance features an embedded three-setting hot plate that lets you cook ingredients. Need to dice carrots, onions, and celery for minestrone? Toss pre-cut vegetables in the blender.
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. When I do get a chance to make soup, I always make a giant mess. Every once in a while a product pops up that makes you think… Why has no one thought of this before?