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)

Very picky about maximum level, recipes short on flavour, but now being aware I’ll tweak accordingly. Very handy to make a small batch of soup. Cleaning, however, is a bit tricky, but doable with patience. Recommend

Quick and easy no mess, convenient to have

I bought this soup maker approximately 10 months back. I have made several soups including tomato, potato and broccoli soups. It is very easy to use and clean. Quality of the product is extremely good. Although little pricey, it makes very tasty and healthy soup.

I never heard of this soup maker and just love making so many great soups now with the greatest of ease.

I received my unit last night. So I had to try the smoothie function first (perfect light breakfast). I chose one the smoothie recipes in the booklet (raspberry) because I happened to have all the ingredients (frozen berries, plain yogourt, orange juice, honey). In 3 minutes, I had a delicious smoothie.I then tried a minestrone (because I had frozen veggies - viva le frozen stuff!). In 18 minutes, I had delicious vegetable soup (next time I'll add bowtie pasta, or maybe rice.)I am so glad I ordered this soup wizard. Simply prep the ingredients, let what's frozen defrost in the pot, put the lid on, start the process. It's great for supper time, as you can start the soup first, and let the machine do its thing while you focus on the main course. I recommend it.

Pros: works great to purée soups to easily get more veggies in your life; makes pretty ok hot cocoa. Cons: you must make a certain amount of anything(which is kind of a lot) & can’t reheat or whip up a single cup of hot cocoa but rather you need to make 3 cups of cocoa at a time using it. So depending on what you need it could be great or a little inconvenient.

My life was not happy until I got my Phillips soup maker and now it is. OK, a little dramatic, but I do love this thing. I recommend buying the cookbook that goes along with it. When I opened up the package that contained the cookbook I thought I would be disappointed because it’s a very thin book, but it has a lot of recipes.

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!

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El mejor electrodoméstico que he comprado. Fácil de usar. Prepara alimentos rápidos, sanos y deliciosos.

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.

¡Excelente! Uno de los mejores aparatos que he comprado. Funciona perfecto. Sopas y salsas en pocos minutos y con un sabor excepcional. Muy, muy recomendable. Fácil de usar.

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.