Will someone please tell me... General Chat

...that I do not need an electric soup maker?

Preferably before I buy one from the only supplier on eBay that will send here!

YOU DO NOT NEED AN ELECTRIC SOUP MAKER! All you need is a saucepan and a blender. I make soup several times a week and that is all I have and it is always delicious. (Though I am now off to check out electric soup makers....)

What I need, of course, is an ice cream maker. Mmmm, ice cream....

You Do Not Need A Electric Soup Maker!!!!!

Over priced blender with a heating element.

I know I do not need one but tbh I find saucepans and blenders take too much energy, plus I have to prop myself up to make sure it does not burn or boil over, stir, then blend - and then wash up both pan, whatever I have used to stir it, plus the blender.

So something I can just chuck everything in, switch on and it does it all automatically will make life so much easier. I am finding cooking more and more difficult these days so anything that makes life a bit easier for me is welcome.

Incidentally, it is a Philips HR2200/80

Oh, what to do, what to do.

And I really really want it...

NO NO NO NO NO NO YOU DON'T NEED A ELECTRIC SOUP MAKER

You do need a ice creamer maker, yoghurt maker, juicer, tea maid, coffee maker, toastie sandwich maker.

I have a juicer, a coffee maker - gave away my toastie sandwich maker as I rarely eat bread and if I do the slices are too small to make them.

Yoghurt I can make without a special thingy - do not need a teasmaid - would not mind an icecream maker but it would be well down on my list of wants.

But I do want that soup maker. SNIFF

What about a slow cooker you can do soup in them

I have [counts on fingers...] 2 x 6.5 litre slow cookers, 1 x 3.5 litre slow cooker, and 1 x 1.5 litre slow cooker. But they are SLOW cookers and this soup maker will make soup in 20 minutes. No heavy crock insert to lift out, place gently in the sink [so as not to chip either the crock or the sink] and wash.

And I want that soup maker.

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How about one of these machines instead of soup maker

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1 - I already have a toaster [which I rarely use]

2 - I also have an electric egg boiler [which also poaches eggs]

The reason I bought the latter was because I was fed up with the egg pan boiling dry and the eggs exploding - egg on the ceiling is not easy for me to clean, and how many times am I supposed to buy a new egg pan?

Anyhow, the soup maker has a capacity of 1.2 litres which is just perfect for me!

Tell you what Malka I think you might need the soup maker

Tell you what Tina - I have just bought it!

buy a hand blender so you can blend it in the pan, easier to wash up, easier to store, no ladeling hot soup to the blender, cost about £15, has other attachments to do other stuff.

oh you posted while i was typing. never mind you got it now.

ive got one of those toast and poached egg things, its amazing and as i eat a lot of eggs it gets used a lot

I'm also fighting the desire to get one - and over here Winter is on its way. It's just that all these gadgets take up so much space in the kitchen cupboards (sigh!). I have a pan of diced veg. permanently on the hob (soluble fibre for Ed's ulcerated colon), so a soup maker would actually save space wouldn't it? (I was thinking of the Moulinex one).
Let us know if you absolutely LOVE it.

@katygeorge - I have a collection of stick blenders - I got a Braun with all the different attachments as a freebie with my refrigerator, another [different make] with my large "toaster" oven [I do not have a proper cooker] - and a two others but where they came from I do not know!

@CaroleC - I have a very tiny kitchen with just two base units plus the sink unit, so I only keep things out that are in almost daily use. Other things are kept in their boxes and are on a shelf in my back room, which adjoins the kitchen - the ones used most frequently nearest the doorway. Once used and cleaned they go back in their boxes and back on the shelf.

I could have bought a Morphy Richards soup maker from the television shopping channel website, but it is the basic model which only has smooth or chunky settings, whereas the Philips has five different settings, including a keep warm function.

The Philips is also just that bit smaller, which is better for me, the only disadvantage being that the Morphy Richards would have been delivered by courier within five working days whereas this is coming from the UK by mail and could take maybe two weeks.

@Malka , @Janet & @CaroleC

Banana soup
Ingredients
60 grams(~2 oz.) butter
60 grams(~2 oz.) flour
2 ripe bananas
1 can peeled tomato's
3 cubes beef bouillon
pepper
salt
1cup cream
2 table spoon chopped parsley

Steps
1 - Let the butter melt in a pan, but don't allow the butter to colour.
2 - Add the flour and stir smoothly.
3 - Add the peeled tomatoes and the peeled bananas in slices with the roux. Stir well and let it heat for 1 minute.
4 - Add 2 litres of water.
5 - Close the pan of and let the soup cook softly for about 10 minutes.
6 - Add the beef bouillon and season it.
7 - Mix the soup.
8 - Add before serving the soup the cream and chopped parsley.
9 - Eat & enjoy