yep a saucepan, peeler , knife.
Bread . ingredients , trays , oven
I tried the soup maker today and lām really disappointed with it.
It wouldnāt work and E133 kept coming up on the display.
I took a little of the liquid out and it then worked but the soup was horrible. The vegetables were still raw and the soup tasteless! I had to finish cooking it in a saucepan!
Iām going to take the soup maker back and go back to a saucepan and Bamix!!
Sorry itās not worked out for you as I know you really wanted one
I still donāt think you can beat the saucepan and stick blender method though. You have complete control over your final product
Sorry to hear that, very dissapointing.
Hmmmm, glad I didnāt bother. I too prefer the saucepan and blender method.
Sis made celery and potato soup recently but had over salted it! Not heard of that combo.
I use my pressure cooker for soups, so quick and easy. Slow cooker can also be used but havenāt tried soups in that yet.
Thank you for all your replies.
Jazzi, l once read, if you put too much salt in stews, soups etc, to put slices of bread in and it absorbs the salt! I once tried it and it worked.
Val, l usually do turkey or chicken soup with the carcasses in my pressure cooker. It only takes 20 minutes and is really tasty. You couldnāt put bones or carcass in a soup maker!!
Missy and Julie, Thank You for your commiserations!
Itās really nice when you just want to toss everything together and let it cook itself all day. Especially nice when you just donāt have time to ābabysitā the soup and give it stirs now and again, etc. If Iām making vegetable soup, I cook it on low for about 8-9 hours so the veggies get nice and tender and all the flavors blend. But if you want it sooner, you can cook it on high, although I donāt know how long it would take because Iāve never cooked soup on high before.
You can also toss in a peeled raw potato. The potato absorbs the excess sodium.
Thanks for the review on the soup maker. It definitely gives perspective, does it not? Itās best to cook it the old fashioned way. Niiiiiiiiiiice and slowwwwwwwwwww.
I felt that way (very disappointed) when I bought a juicer. It took tons of produce just to yield a tiny little amount. Thatās one kitchen appliance that no longer graces the presence of the rest of them.
Juicer in use daily here, Nathanās not a fruit fan but will drink juice and smoothies so we have both gadgets.
Thatās good you use it. Fresh juice is the best. I love carrot juice. But I decided my juicer was more hassle than it was worth.
Just coming back to this thread and I have after our whizzer we used to do soup broken decided to buy a soup maker rather than a new whizzer. Similar price we found for each.
Anyway I have the morphy richards which does make enough soup for 4, washes up easily and TBH we are eating soup several times a week because itās so easy to do.
The only drawback is you cannot add to the soup once itās on. But we seem to be managing to adapt recipes so everything goes in at the beginning.
If you want to add meat which we never do it has to be precooked before adding. That might be a problem for some people.
What part of the soup making process is this machine actually saving you?
Seems just the part where you leave the veg to simmer in a saucepan on a hob and then the final blending of it into a smooth consistency.
Simmering veg in a pan is no effort at all is it?
So is it the blending part that youāre trying to avoid?
Well I have a struggle some days to stand and stir for long, I also find the whizzer was a bit heavy for me. I also think itās nice to be able to put it all in a machine and spend half an hour with the kids, we can have a lot of fun in half an hour.
The one Iām married to is pretty goodā¦
A highly elaborate thread when all you need is this.
Packet of soup. Kettle. Mug. 2 minutes flat. Jobās a good 'un.
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I bought one and used it once , itās been stuck in my cupboard ever since. I make gorgeous soups the traditional way and they taste much better than in that soup maker. I should open a soup kitchen, I d call it Souper Bevās ! I really should my soups are the best so my dad tells me!
Yuk is all I can say to those things Floydy 
Iām curious why it tasted different LQ I put same ingredients in the soup maker as I do in a saucepan, only difference is if I add cheese itās right at the very end. But the taste of my soups are identical.
Itās okay for a quick tea break snack at work, Julie.
Otherwise, I only really eat soup in a restaurant as a starter once in a blue moon. Tomato and mescaparne is lovely 
Yours obviously arenāt as nice as mine Julie hehe