PHILIPSViva Collection SoupMaker, 1.2 L, Makes 2-4 servings, 6 Pre-set Programs, SoupPro Technology, Soup in Less than 18 Minutes, Eeasy Clean, Recipe Book, Black and Stainless Steel (HR2204/70)

Bought this for my mom because it's very simple to use and the product is cheap and of good quality. We can enjoy fresh soy milk in the morning.

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.

I really love homemade soup; however, I really don't have the time to simmer things for hours. The Philips SoupMaker give us the homemade vitamins and taste without the wait. I couldn't be more delighted with the purchase, and have already recommended it to some of my family member!

Good product.

I have been using it to make different kinds of soups every day ever since it arrived. I based recipes on recipes in cookbook as guidelines and have be able to get very good results. Smooth and milk based soup textures came really good. For Chunky, I was expecting more like chopped texture but this was more slushy so that was not per my expectations.Cleaning is little challenging due to electric points attached, it can not be immersed in water and not dishwasher safe. Something they can improve in next version by making those detachable units. Another area they can work on it very first time it starts blending it makes loud sound after starting even when you are expecting the sound.Overall, very happy with purchase and have helped me in getting healthy eating habits by experimenting with different vegetables soups as its very easy to make them with this soup maker

The media could not be loaded. I ordered this one because it is pretty big size for my all family and easy to clean it. It is made by stainless still and seems to be durable. I couldn’t wait to use it for making soy milk and smoothie.————————————————————-Finally it was delivered.Yes, it is a nice design and size product and easy to be cleaned. However, I din’t agree it works great. I tried to make vegetable juice with carrot, apple and celery but it was failed.The apple, carrot and celery were still lump, not became juice. I just notified that the recipe manual in the box is only for banana, cherry and blueberries. They cannot make smoothies or juice with hard fruits or vegetables.Furthermore, there is no time screen on the lid, so it is difficult to figure out whether it was done or not.