Cook homemade soups from start to finish or blend up your favorite smoothie in this innovative – and versatile – blender. Nonstick cooking plate lets you sauté ingredients, simmer and even boil soups, then blend to the perfect consistency with the touch of a button. Making warm and healthy homemade soups has never been so easy. Meanwhile, in a Cuisinart soup maker and blender over low heat, warm the olive oil.
A timer function keeps track of cooking time for you, truly making this all-in-one device a convenient option for soup aficionados. While its basic design has evolved from that of a standard blender, the Cuisinart SSB1U Soup Maker promises to tackle much more than just blitzing food and ice. A booklet of recipes is also included for inspiration.
But if you are outside of the UK, then you won’t find the same choice in soup makers. We are planning on upgrading on our Morphy Richards Soup Maker back to the cuisinart pots and pans set, because now as a family of 5 with 5 hungry tummies to fill we need a larger soup maker. 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. 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. We figured that when she was old enough we would use it to make her blended baby food, plus it would be big enough for us grown ups to have some soup whenever we wanted to as well.
However, this makes it much closer to cooking on the hob and therefore adapting recipes becomes straightforward. As this machine involves more than simply pressing a button, we began with two of the provided recipes. First a curry paste, with the machine having no trouble grinding up ingredients for a smooth result using ‘level 3 blend’ (there are 1–4 speeds available). Blending can be done once any of the programmes have finished. In addition, you can blend or pulse cold liquids such as smoothies. I suspect if I did, my favorite would be this or their food processor.
My husband actually snuck some spinach in a smoothie and I didn’t notice any change to texture. Ease of Use A few buttons to push but nothing too complicated. 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? Leave ’em in, add some oil, and turn the knob to low. Basically, you can cook an entire soup in the 48-ounce capacity unit (56 ounces if you’re using it with cold items like smoothies or shakes) with minimal prep.
This is the second generation of these soup makers hat we have bought. My wife finds it very easy to use and the end cuisinart soup maker product is first rate. You need to select the cooking mode and temperature, as well as choosing when to stir.