★★★★ 1435 real customer reviews average rating: 4.3 stars (scroll to see all)
5 Stars By ARK on 2023-06-09
A Savior indeed
Its a must for people who are working and dont have time usually to cook meals every day. I have a medical condition and usually need to eat freshly cooked food. This is just the right and must have device. Makes good rich soup. I have only had it for over a month so have only good things to say and hope it will last. 5 stars !
5 Stars By Michelle S. on 2023-08-21
Save the Instruction Manual!
Bought new as an xmas gift & was shipped a previously used item from 2DayDeliver, with an oily, uncleaned unit & greasy finger printed cook booklet. Returned it with a complaint & 2DayDeliver shipped a brand new soup maker in time for xmas. Really does make delicious soup fast! Tried the potato leek recipe from the enclosed cook booklet & it was really good. Will make a 2nd batch so we’ll have enough for a dinner sized portion for 2.
*It’s important to save the instruction manual! Buttons on soup maker are not marked with words for their function. You’ll need to refer to the instructions for the operation of each button, especially if soup maker is only used occasionally.
5 Stars By Chekhov27 on 2023-10-08
Love it!! A bit hard to clean but okay
Can’t express how much I love it, Joyoung make similar product with self cleaning mode, but it’s over priced that’s why I got this one. Nothing to complain so far, highly recommend!!
5 Stars By Pav Bryan on 2023-08-27 I would love the recipe book to have more variety and use a portion size that fills the maker a little more.
I don't care that it's 100f outside, I want soup...
This little soup maker is great. Really easy to use, easy to clean, all good.
4 Stars By P Smith on 2023-10-17
Pretty much as expected.
The Phillips Soup Maker is exactly what I thought it would be. It puts a bowl of homemade soup in front of one in a jiffy. I am glad to have it available in my kitchen and as time passes, I am sure that I will be very grateful that I bought i. But, after having it only a brief time and not having exploited its full potential, perhaps, I was not bowled over by it. I hesitate to criticize it too harshly, though. I only gave it three stars for "flavor" because I really was not at all impressed with the recipes that I have whipped up out of the enclosed cookbook. The Vegan Cream of Asparagus soup was, to my mind and taste-buds, just plain awful. The Minestrone was bland and not really appealing. I hope that when I learn to adapt other recipes from other sources to this device I will be more pleased with the result. On a more positive note, I found it quite easy to clean and, with a couple of reservations, easy to use. I had intended to buy one as a gift for a friend in her eighties but I fear that she will not grasp the danger of shoving the soup maker into her dishwasher, a real No-No, so I dropped that idea. The direction book did not give me what for me, I would call intuitive instructions and I needed to refer back to it several times during my early uses. But, again, that was a learning curve. Again, on a positive note, as an appliance for the kitchen of a single person, I can see the soup maker being an asset, the only limitation being the amount of soup that it will produce. The soup maker does not prepare a meal for a crowd, a fair-sized family, or for even three healthy appetites. But, for one or two, it's fine. So, on that basis, I recommend it.
4 Stars By Zoe Zhou on 2023-09-03 However, after following the cleaning instructions for the first time, the inside looked a bit worn, as if it had been used before. Also, the cap doesn't seal very well, causing steam to leak out during use. Overall, it's a decent appliance, but there's room for improvement.
Very nice soup maker..but can be improved
I've used this soup maker a few times now, and it's definitely powerful and easy to clean. I like it a lot. It saves a lot of time for making soup.
5 Stars By Paula on 2023-09-20
Easy to use
Makes perfect soups in minutes as advertised. I have not tried the other features.
5 Stars By Terri Brisbin on 2023-08-05 As others have mentioned, you really have to stir your ingredients and try to keep pasta away from bottom - and stir it immediately when it finishes or it does become a sticky glop on the bottom. But today I made a delicious batch of Italian Wedding soup - and the meatballs were cooked through, the pasta/orzo was cooked, the tortellini, too, and the broth was delicious!
Delicious soup in only 20 minutes!
I love to make soup but sometime I make too much - so this soup maker is perfect when I just want a small batch. It's fast and I love the ability to make smooth or chunky soups. The recipe books doesn't exactly work - the amounts are 'off' because this really is smaller because the of the cooking/blending element that takes up so much room in the pitcher. So, be prepared to adjust down due to the small space.
4 Stars By Marianne Pastelak on 2023-06-10 I am disappointed in the cookbook that came with the machine because most of the recipes call for way more than 4 1/2 cups of ingredients, so have to be adjusted. One plus from getting this machine is that now I'm so much better at fractions.
Great for cold soups
I bought this to make gazpacho for my summer menus. The capacity is only 4 1/2 cups, so I had to adjust my recipe to fit. The result was fantastic, so I also did a cold broccoli soup on the pureed soup setting and a creamy tomato-basil, also wonderful.
I tried the "Easy Chicken Pasta Soup" recipe from the book, but it set off the alarm part of the way through because it burned on the bottom.
5 Stars By Filbert on 2023-08-16
If you like soup buy this
I love it. I can make a cheese soup and it doesn't burn the can as long as I put 1 cup of broth or water in first. It has a nice receipe book. I made the beet soup which I liked and haven't had it long enough to try the other recipes yet. But if you have a soupmaker you will make a lot more soup than you will without one. You know what's going in it. No GMO ingredients for me and Campbell's soup puts in nanotechnology into their soups. I have to chop vegetable finer than my first soupmaker but the motor spining the blade will last longer that way. I just made the cheese and broccoli soup I made on the old soupmaker and it didn't burn the can at all. This is better made than my old gourmia soupmaker. Soupmaker's don't make a lot of soup but that way you don't get tired of it and don't eat it. Plus you can chop up cooked chicken or hAm from the store and add it to the soup and you can cook up rice or noodle in the rice cooker and add it to the soup after you have made it in soupmaker and that extends the amount of soup you have. Once cooked you can add in sour cream or yogurt or creme fraische and add toppings for better flavor or gourmet taste. Now my first soupmaker didn't last a year and I would make soup every 3 days in it during winter. I don't know how long this one will last but if you like soup and like hot meals this is great for a one pot meal or soup as a side. I've only had this less than a week and i've already made the beet soup and the broccoli cheese soup and I have the stuff to make the butternut squash soup next. You can have sandwiches and soup or soup and a salad. And it only takes 18 minutes to make hot ready to eat soup. The smooth setting is not as fine as the gourmia because it had 4 blades instead of 2 but it's doesn't bother me. It's all going to the same place anyway. There are a lot of recipes only line from the UK because the Morphy Richards soupmaker is king over there and it has a saute setting where you can put in butter and onions or whatever you saute and then it put in the rest for the soup setting. I'm sure it tastes better but I'm too lazy to saute onions in butter on the stove and add it to my soupmaker. The beauty is you pour in a cup of liquid first, then your chopped ingredients or other stuff and fill liquid to max level turn it on and walk away and do something else. No matter how tired I am I can always make soup because you only have 4-5 more or less ingredients to stick in the can and heat it up. it's done in 18 minutes and you don't eat junk food. I add spice to the soup after it's cooked particularly if I'm giving soup away to neighbors. Let them spice to their heart's content. Honestly this is an appliance that should be cheaper to buy if more americans used it and I use mine all the time. For summer you can do gazpacho or smoothies or deserts but I like warm food. I make strictly hot soup in it. I used to make cream of asparagus soup and cream of cauliflower soup in my old soupmaker at least once a week. I haven't had this one for more than a week yet but I'm already planning my next soup.
