Do I need a soup maker?

imho

Oh sorry i am one person who treated my self to a soup maker.It was on special offer.I use mine twice a week and love it.I do think it wasnt worth the money but i like not having to stir anything and not having to watch the pan boil over.

kerri_gt

Personally I think it's like all kitchen gadgets, if you're going to regularly use it, got one. I have a stand mixer, I use it a lot, to others it is a waste of money. Same with a bread maker, on the odd occasion I make bread, I can do it by hand, a bread maker would be a waste of space and money for me, some couldn't do without theirs. Horses for courses.

Ps I have a stand blender for smoothies and soup. I am toying with the idea of a stick blender as the stand one is a bit of a pain to move to the socket, and I have to let soup call before blitzing but I still love it.

Emm-in-a-pickle

OP, save your pennies for something you need, and if you have a large pan, decent ingredients (and some imagination),just enjoy making soup! A stick blender is all you need if you want a smooth soup.

meritaten

I made pea soup tonight for my veggie GD1s supper. it took ten minutes in a saucepan and I whizzed it up with my Stick blender.
I think for myself a soup 'maker' would be sat in a cupboard.

Pollycat

I noticed this post just after it had been posted but got distracted by something else so didn't post a reply.

I'm with most of the posters - for me a soup-maker would be a waste of space & money.

Depending how I feel, I either use my pressure cooker base or slow cooker to make soup.

Anoneemoose

I bought a soup maker and I just can't get on with it. I thought it would be a boon so I could take healthy, homemade lunches to work. I don't know if it is the ingredients I have been using (pre chopped packs from asda) but everything just tastes the same!

Enterprise_1701C

Another vote for the soup maker here I have to admit I used Nectar points for it, but it is great. I don't do all soups in it, there are some I prefer to use the traditional method for.

Don't get me wrong, I am normally a good cook, but for some reason I burn or boil over a lot of soups, so it is great to be able to just shove a few bits in the soup maker and press a button. And I always get exactly the right quantity in it because I know the level it should be at when taking into account the veg etc.

I get lovely soup out of it, and it certainly does not taste the same all the time. But I do not used pre-chopped packs of veg, have always thought veg packed together like that will take on each others flavour. And if I want smooth soup it comes out a lot smoother than does soup in a pan with a stick blender.

If you get one, don't expect to use it all the time, and certainly do not get one of the more expensive ones.

flopsy59

i have had a soup maker for a year and i love it. it means i can make soup and go and do something else. in the winter months i make soup at least 4 times a week. when i made it using a pan i had to keep checking on it and with a soup maker i can make soup first thing in the morning and pre heat it at lunchtime. i only like fresh soup and make just enough for me and hubby. everybody has preferences to what gadgets they use.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Souped.


Carrots, Roost, Onion, Leek. Can of Toms. Blitzed. Added Spinach. Salt Pepper and Bits to taste.





And no soup maker in site!

Susie-E

Another vote for a big saucepan and a blender.

I regularly make a large pan of soup and blitz it in the blender, I then divide it up into soup to go mugs and freeze. Hubby takes soup and bread (both homemade) to work as the so called subsidies cafe is very expensive.