Tower T12031 Soup & Smoothie Maker with Intelligent Control System and Stainless Steel Jug and Blade, 1000W, 1.6 Litre, Stainless Steel

This is by far the best soup maker I have owned & I have owned 3 down the years . It is fast , It is easy to use & is precise in cooking smooth or chunky soup .& It's an excellent price & better than the more expensive models ...I strongly recommend you buying it folks ..& You can do smoothies .. What's not to like .....

I know there are other soup makers out there, but I truly love this, so much better than buying tinned soup. It’s so easy to use, tastes great…

If you just like chunky soup, this is great.If you just like super smooth soup, this is great.If you want to make soup that's to your own preferred level of smooth/chunky then this is not great.It truly works great in either mode, so if you love chunky or very smooth soup it's all aces, but where it falls down is if you like soup somewhere between chunky and smooth, because if you try to blend the soup during/after cooking in chunky mode then it just constantly errors and you have to reset it, try again, beeeeeep, reset, try again, beeeeep, reset, try again.. and again.. it took me around 15 attempts to blend the chunky down and I gave up in the end.At the price they charge for this, this shouldn't be an issue! but it is.Now on the plus side, food does not stick to the bottom like it does in metal ones I've had, so that's one major annoyance removed, also I used turmeric in the first soup and it looked to have stained the plastic, however, it did clean off a bit with water and soap, then after a couple more soups (without turmeric) it was gone.The lack of easy blending during/after use is a major drawback, that's the main reason I bought as see through one as with the metal ones you've no clue how smooth it's going whilst blending without stopping and checking, so I figured I'd solved that problem with a transparent soup maker, but alas no.

Very impressed with this little machine! I was a bit dubious about how well it would blend and whether it would scorch soup or not cook things properly but it’s excellent! Simple to use, quick to make soup and easy to clean (although it’d be lovely if it could go through the dishwasher - sadly it can’t). Winter is coming - buy the soup maker already!!

I had read reviews saying that it burnt the soup so I expected this to happen. I did not believe that soup could be made and blended in twenty-one minutes but to my surprise it did both perfectly. You don't need to watch over it or mix the soup. It exceeded my expectations and did not burn the soup. I have only used it once so time will tell.

Only 21 minutes from start to finish , soups are superb.

This to me is a marvelous machine. A friend told me he had bought a soup in 2019, & I liked the idea. VERY easy to use. From memory, somewhere in the instruction booklet, it does suggest that it is like using an electric kettle.I always used to make a large pot of soup on the stove, thick, & the veg probably too chunky for most people. lol.This gives you the option of just cooking, but cutting the veg small enough that they actually do cook in around 20mins, or smooth. & smooth is great. I have not tried it with my usual broth mix yet, even with a mix of veg, & not much potato, it does get a bit of body. It has a 3rd setting on it, to use the machine cold without heat, for fruit drinks, & even put ice cream in for deserts.I only gave it 3 stars for ease of cleaning. It is like a lot of these blasted toastie machines where one cannot take the non stick pans out to clean them properly. Unfortunately, the jug cannot be removed from the base, which is where the electrical inlet is. It is a bit of a faff to clean it with little water in the machine, though I would still totally recommend it.

Dead on arrival. Other household appliances working fine in all our sockets. Not this soup maker. Should've got a Morphy Richards.