Auto Soup Cooker.. I couldn't let it sit there

[petek]

Whilst I was haunting Value Village today looking for old typewriters I spotted this oddity on a shelf. I've never seen one of them before now and it was just too gadgety for me to leave it there. I had to do some googling to read up on them and also because it didn't come with a cookbook or instrx.. It's basically a cooking vessel with a blender type shaft in the lid . Two cooking modes for soup,,, smooth and chunky , and two blender modes with no heat.
Since we didn't have many veggies left I scooted to the grocery and picked up some carrots and mini potatoes.

Tossed some of each in along with a chopped onion, frozen corn and peas and some salt and pepper and veggie stock , pushed the button for smooth soup.. and away she went. It's a 26 minute program.. It boils very quickly and at the reminaing 10 minutes does one 20 second blend, then another at the 7 minute remaining mark,, and then during the last 3 minutes it cycles on and off and shuts down.. I must say the soup is very very smooth .

The mixer blade isn't sharp at all which lessens the danger of cutting yourself removing or cleaning it. I made a video but it hasn't uploaded so here's someone elses.

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS2rK67lzt0

 

[frigilux]

Cool! I've never seen one of these. Now that my kitchen gadgetry has been reduced to a food processor and a mixer, it's fun to see things like the soup maker in an AW kitchen. Are you going to try the chunky setting?

 

[petek]

I'm making some Leek and Potato soup this time.. It seems these machines under the Morphy Richards brand in the UK are or were very popular. Almost every video on them is from the UK.

 

[twintubdexter]

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">That soup maker is kind of neat. When I think about my collection of cooking appliances that take up several cupboards and are almost never used, I recall three that could be used to make soup. There's that heavy Ronson cooking blender that sounds like a freight train in the kitchen. There's a brand new cooking blender, Cuisinart I think, that has never been plugged in, and that stirring cooking vessel thing for the Ronson Foodmatic. I have an addiction for buying small appliances. Soup?...it's easier for me to open a pull-top can of Progresso.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">my cluttered kitchen...</span>

 

[this post was last edited: 11/13/2018-14:44]

 

[lordkenmore]

easier for me to open a pull-top can of Progresso

I hate to admit how often I've taken the easy route, and grabbed canned soup... And with the pull tops so common now, you don't even need the effort of using the can opener!

 

It's interesting coming round circle, almost. When I was young, my mother often served me Campbell's for my winter weekend or vacation lunches. For whatever reason, that faded away. Then, when I started cooking, I made it a point to make soups from scratch. (And they were better. They were also more work than opening a can.) Then, at some point in the last 20 years, I started having canned soup again... I've even been known to have Campbell's mushroom soup...even though "it's not as good as homemade", and it's probably not exactly a nutritional powerhouse soup. But...there is sentiment--I can remember it from winter weekend lunches when I was young...

 

[ea56]

An Interesting Tale About Campbells Soup

in about 1958 or 59, Cloris Leachman was briefly the Mother on TV’s Lassie, replacing the first Mom, Jan Clayton.

The major sponsor for Lassie was Campbells Soup. After Cloris had been in a few episodes, she did an interview, and the interviewer asked her what her favorite Campbells Soup was? Cloris replied, “None, I make my own damn soup”! Well that was all she wrote for Cloris and Lassie, and in came June Lockhart, mid season to be Timmie’s Mom, and she continued in that role until Lassie finally went off the air.

Eddie