Soup Maker.

[masma]

Can anyone recommend an electric soup maker please? I'd like to buy my daughter one but am confused as to which one.

[Mamyalynne]

In truth a soup maker is really a saucepan and a blender in one, so a nice convenient luxury as a gift for someone.

I've talked myself into and out of buying one for a few years now.

[EcclesCake]

Twaddle to date is not convincing me that a soup maker trumps a stick blender.

I find it perfectly easy to walk away and leave the pot to its own devices!

[gness]

Thank you, Eccles.

[MargoTester]

Well I didn't have a stick blender so I chose to buy a soup maker as is my prerogative and I'm very pleased with it. I just answered the op's question

[woofgang]

the old way is two wooden spoons and a tamis :)

[hc4361]

A simple question about a kitchen gadget and so much argy bargy

[Tilly2]

This is like reading Gulliver's Travels and the war between Lilliput and Blefescu. Big Enders and Little Enders.

[gness]

I may have had a stick blender, Margo....if I hadn't used it for something in the garden......but having tasted the soup made by a friend in her soup maker.....and fancied the chuck it in and get great soup method I bought one..... good aren't they........ :-)

[RandyMarsh]

I agree with Mams, a soupmaker is a great gift.

[Mamyalynne]

I recall the incredulity when Craft1948 said she had one of these some time ago.

http://alfille.co.uk/

[MargoTester]

Brilliant Gness and at least it got me into making soup - which I was never really into before

[ummmm]

I remember that, Mamy, I also remember thinking I wanted one.

[hc4361]

I had one and it was a little too warm, I think - the butter went rancid.

[Tilly2]

I make soup far more often now that I have a soup maker and more importantly, I make better, tastier soup.

Previously, my saucepan soups tended to be a bit hit and miss. Thank you, Morphy Richards.

[EcclesCake]

What are you doing differently Tilly?

[Sipowicz]

A soupmaker?....is that a tin opener?

[hc4361]

We always said we'd never have a dishwasher. We were adamant - just how long does it take to wash up anyway?

Then we had a self catering holiday with a dishwasher. Within a week of being home a dishwasher was installed and now we wouldn't want to do without one

[Tilly2]

Using less liquid, I guess, Eccles. Also, using less potato. I used to put in lots of potato, to thicken it. I don't need to do that with the soup maker.

[hc4361]

I think you can compare a soup maker to a toaster. You can make soup and toast without them but it's a lot easier.
Nobody thinks of a toaster as a luxury these days

[ummmm]

I actually prefer toast done under the grill. I don't grill it often because turn round for a few seconds and it's burnt.