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Since its launch in 2009, the Cuisinart Soup Maker has created a extraordinary level of interest. Press, reviews and blogs seem pretty impressed.. If the amount of interest in the machine is any measure, it must be true that soup has staged somewhat of a resurgence!

Those with an eye on the family budget will be aware that it’s going to be less expensive to make your own than to buy supermarket brands.

In a nutshell, the idea of the appliance is a combination of a blender with a built-in hotplate. Ingredients can then be chopped, cooked and then liquidised into soup. A great advantage is that it works just as effectively as a blender for cold ingredients – so it’s great for smoothies, sauces and dips.

The procedure for making soup is fairly simple:-

• Put the onion and similar ingredients into the glass jug with a little oil, chop with the blade and fry using the integral hotplate
• Add the stock along with the other ingredients and turn up the heat to boil
• Turn the heat down to simmer and cook for the necessary time
• You can add other ingredients at any time during the cooking as appropriate
• Use the pulse mode to stir the soup occasionally
• When cooked, just blend the soup as required, season and your soup is ready

Twenty minutes from start to finish – and you only have one jug to wash (although cleaning is said to be a bit of a fiddle)

There’s little doubt that the overwhelming sense you get from reading the reports of those who have bought the Soup Maker is one of enthusiasm. So many say how they have rediscovered how agreeable it can be to make wholesome soup from garden-fresh produce again.

You get a 40-page recipe book included, but you don’t have to stick to that – just make your favourites. After a bit of practice, you can really expand your horizons.

The only thing that attracts any negative reaction at all is the problem of cleaning the jug and blade. The best plan seems to be to put some water and washing-up liquid into the jug as soon as you have finished cooking, so that the residue does not dry hard.

That aside, the advantages of the Cuisinart Soup Maker far outweigh these lesser problems. It performs well, does all it is intended to do and should prove a good buy.