Philips Viva 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)

Excellent Soupmaker! I couldn’t believe how good the end result was. Just follow the instructions, and in about 18 minutes, you’ll have a delicious, great-tasting soup. The texture comes out perfectly smooth. I absolutely love this appliance!

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.

Love love loveBest purchase! Makes soup with little effort. My kiddo can use this. Now she can make fresh soup in no time.Product= no more canned soup!

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.

Ordered this prior to abdominal surgery. Didn't use. Surgery got delayed to this month. Go and try to use and it does NOT work at all. Tried 3 different outlets just in case. Past return date so I have an expensive hunk of metal. Unhappy coz now I have to go find something else. And I thought Phillips was. a good brand