Morphy Richards Classic Soup Maker, 1.6L, Multi-Settings, LED Displayed Panel, Motorised Blade, Stainless Steel, 1000W, 48822

I recently bought this electric soup maker, and I’m really impressed with how easy it makes preparing soups. The machine heats and blends ingredients all in one, cutting down on both cooking time and cleanup. I love that I can throw in vegetables, broth, and spices, press a button, and have a smooth, hot soup ready in under 30 minutes. The texture is always consistent, and the flavor is rich. It’s also compact and easy to store. My only minor complaint is that some models can be a bit noisy during operation. Overall, it's a fantastic tool for anyone who loves homemade soups with minimal effort.

Great item. Mum loves it. Makes making soup so easy.

Very easy to use, excellent results, no complaints at all.

Bought as a present for my wife who fell-in-love with a friends soup maker. Works superbly and the results are excellent. A couple of comments:1. There are very few soup recipes included with the soup maker why? Come on Morphy Richards, adding a recipe booklet would add little to the cost but a great deal to the product. Instead we have to resort to the internet.2. In many, many cases the few recipes that are included instruct you to fry onions in a pan, or cook this, or roast that. If you have to get a pan out to start the soup making off, it does detract from the one-for-all gadget. If one does have to fry onions or red peppers etc, why not have the stainless steel kettle part so you can place this directly on your cooker and then fry or cook the required ingredients in the soupmaker. At least this would reduce the washing-up.In summary, a great gadget for the easy, simple soups that don't need ingredients to be pre-cooked and the ones that we have tried have been great, creamy, smooth and delicious.Easy to clean - but I would recommend tracking-down the easy-to-prepare soup recipes that don't need additional preparation in other pans.Two additional comments having used for some time. The lid, which has the mixer and motor in it, has to be removed for some recipes whilst you add ingredients. The lid is very awkward to lay down, The rounded handle means that you cannot stand it upside down, and as it has sharp blades, you really need to endure that it rests somewhere where the blades cannot scratch anything. It would enhance the design, if there were a clip on the side of the main jug where you could 'hang' the top whilst you add later ingredients.You also need to be careful when you lift the 'lid' motor section off after it had been through its heating cycle as condensation is formed inside and this easily runs off into the electrical socket - especially if you lift it off with the 'lid' section inclined towards this. Easily done.

We've tried making soup a few times over the years, and it never seems to turn out quite as well as we'd hoped. Maybe I'm behind the times but I'd never previously realised that one could buy a soup-maker, so I was intrigued to find out what one was like.We chose the Morphy Richards one based on the reviews already posted for it, and first impressions were good. The soupmaker is perhaps a foot high, and consists of a sturdy metal jug with a thick plastic handle (also very sturdy). The ingredients are placed inside the soupmaker, and then the (heavy) top is fitted. This top contains the blender, which sticks down on a stalk from the underside of the top; it also has a sticky-down sensor on a stick that tells you if the soupmaker is overfilled, and a control panel on top. On the control panel are settings for smooth, chunky, smoothie and just blend. There's also an electronic counter that tells you how long a programme has to go.There are ten or twelve simple soup and smoothie recipes included in the booklet that comes with the soupmaker; our first effort was something else, though, which was for mushroom soup. For vegetable soups, it's a case of chopping up the ingredients, putting them into the soupmaker, and then adding water or stock, depending on the recipe. There are two level markers on the side - marked as the minimum level to which the soupmaker can be filled (1.3 litres) and the maximum (1.6 litres). Obviously this isn't a big range, so if you're making soup for one, you're going to end up with enough for several bowlfuls.Once all the ingredients in, it's a case of either pressing the 'smooth' or the 'chunky' option, and the soupmaker sets off. The smooth setting takes 21 minutes, and the chunky 28 minutes. The programmes both blend the ingredients (the smooth one more so than the chunky one, obviously) and also heat them so that on completion of the programme, the soup is literally ready to serve. And that's all there is to it - you then sit and wait for the soup to be ready. There is quite a lot of noise, and you see steam coming out of the jug; the noise is a bit alarming at first, but you soon get used to it. The display counts down the number of minutes left, and there's some barred lights that effectively tell you what stage of the programme the soupmaker is currently on.We've now made soup five or six times - mushroom, potato and leek, tomato, and a nice lamb and mint soup - and we've been incredibly impressed with the quality of the soup, and the taste and consistency (once we'd learned to put in slightly less water than specified, otherwise the soup is a bit thin). It's worth noting that if you are including meat in a soup, this needs to be pre-cooked. Also, you shouldn't take the lid off during a cycle; this resets it, so you then have to start again - which could result in very well-cooked soup!Cleaning the soupmaker is also easy. When I told a friend that we were getting one, she said that they were quite hard to clean because solid food burns to the bottom, and you can't immerse the soupmaker in water to wash it up, because of the electrics in the handle and the lid. We've had no problem with burning at all; after use, all we've had to do is give a quick rinse and rub round with soapy water, and all has been absolutely fine.All in all, we're incredibly impressed with this. It's well-made, feels very sturdy and as if it will last for years, and produces excellent soup which must surely be healthier than that you buy in a shop. If you get one, you won't regret it. Recommended.