Cuisinart Soup Maker and Blender

[verizonbear]

Saw this in my C&B catalog, not a new concept did't Ronson make something like this the 70s? I remember seeing it

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/kitchen-and-food/blenders/cuisinart-soup-maker-blender/s332562

 

[sudsmaster]

Did anyone ever buy those in the 70's?

 

[petek]

I saw it for the first time last week in the local Future Shop flyer for $179 Cdn. I'm sorely tempted to buy one for the novelty

And yes the 1960's Ronson Cook'n Stir blender which I have.. noisy beast though and built like the proverbial tank,, sounds like a jet taxiing for take off

Here's mine
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[verizonbear]

Tomato Sauce

hmm, I wonder if you could make a pasta sauce with that? The carafe is not dishwasher safe which is a bummer and almost a deal breaker for me

 

[petek]

A glass carafe would definitely be better.

For the last few years Cuisinart has been "reviving" some of these old 60 & 70's appliances.. They've put out a near identical replica of the Salad Shooter, a coffee maker, and a few others I can't think of at the moment.

 

[swestoyz]

noisy beast

Pete - that's putting it lightly!

 

[petek]

There are quite a few You tubes on this new machine,, it does look interesting.. and it seems the carafe is glass,, but for some reason isn't dw safe,, odd

 

[tolivac]

You can make soup in VitaMix blenders-no heating element required-just have to run the machine at high speed for several minutes.Preheating the ingredients helps.Of course this results in textureless soup.The VM machine is built in Ohio-its motor is from Sweden!What happened to VM's Black &Decker motors or Ametek?

 

[tomturbomatic]

And who makes just 48 ounces of soup from scratch? The jar is probably not dishwasher safe because of the construction of the base, maybe it's not removable, and water would get into the bearings. Cleaning it is not really hard. We used to have to instruct people who bought lower end Waring Blendors to fill the jar more than halfway with very warm water, add a few drops of dish detergent, cover and pulse a few times then rinse. This worked unless you made something really thick like your own peanut butter in which case removing what remains stuck around the blades is a bigger headache than cleaning the jar and blade assembly. But the bigger consideration IF the base is not removable, is the cost of replaceing all of the base and blade assembly if the jar gets chipped or cracked. I just checked the Cuisinart website and "For added convenience, a heavy-duty cleaning brush is included to aid in cleaning the heater plate and blades." Oh what fun! I predict that a lot of these will wind up in places that sell stuff nobody wants.

Using a food processor and a good pan would no doubt give you a quieter preparation mode as well as more control over the texture unless you are preparing the Blender Buffet for people on pureed or liquid diets. If you can't stir, you can use one of those battery operated stirring devices that stirs stuff with silicone paddles as it moves about in the pan (see link). If you can't chop, you can use an immersion blender that will puree stuff after it's cooked.

Westinghouse made a TOL stove in the late 60s that featured a magnet drive in the middle of the surface unit and two sizes of stirrers that could be dropped into the pan. When the drive was activated, the device in the pan whirled faster in thin liquids and slower in thicker liquids (duh). I don't think it would replace a whisk for sauce Hollandaise, though, because it moved slower than that operation requires.

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[tolivac]

the Waring blenders with the glass or SS containers that had the non-removable blade assemblies were bar blenders-designed for blending drinks-not really for general food processing.I have a few of those and they do well at mixing drinks.for peanut butter you have to "spin clean" the contianer several times to get the peanut residue out of the jar.Have to do this with Blendtec and VM blender jars.they make the creamyest peanut butter ever!

 

[chachp]

VitaMix Blender

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;">I have the VitaMix and literally use it multiple times a day. I have a green smoothie (I know sounds nasty but tastes good you really only taste the fruit) every morning and make soup in mine multiple times a week. I throw in a few ingredients, turn it on high for about 6 minutes and have soup. You can put vegetables and things in at the end on low to just chop them up vs. having the soup smooth.   I come home for lunch every day and can have a bowl of soup quickly.  I have made Low Fat Alfredo sauce which is really good.  This machine is much more versatile than you might think.  I have the Ronson a few years ago but sold it on eBay.  It was SO loud.</span>

<span style="font-size: small; font-family: verdana,geneva;">My jar can be cleaned in the dishwasher but they recommend you don't if you want the jar to stay clear. I put in some hot water and a drop of soup.  Thirty seconds later it's clean. I LOVE this machine and would recommend it to anyone.</span>

 

[toploader55]

Wow Tom.

That's a Blast from the past. Yes I remember that stove. It was called the "Cook and Stir" Range. I believe it came with also another feature the "No Turn Speed Broil" which was the Top Broiler Element and you plugged in another one below the rack so it cooked both sides at once. So "Futuristic" LOL

 

[tomturbomatic]

In the 50s, 60s and 70s, Waring sold lots of blendors with fixed blades in department and other stores, not just as bar blenders. Higher end models began to feature snap out blades in the 70s then the line began to go over to screw off blade assemblies in the later 70s. Cleaning the thick stuff like peanut butter was possible from fixed blade jars, but scooping out stuff stuck in the region of the blades was time cousuming, ate up rubber spatulas and left far higher amounts of wasted product stuck in the jar.

 

[petek]

Oh No... now I have to get me a  Robo Stir 

 

[tolivac]

WOW!!!another VM fan here-I have BOTH Blendtec and VM-take turns each week using them.Like BOTH blenders.I don't make soup-tried it a couple times.It is better than canned.Just can't get up to trying the "green" drinks yet.Just use fruits in my smoothies.Its a tossup to me which blender fixes the best drink.Both are equal.I just made some peanut butter in the Blendtec-the two winged-gull wing blade makes it easier to scoop out the peanut butter than the VM 4 wing blades.the Blendtec jar cleaned completely after 3 spin clean cycles.I have the commercial models of both amkes-they have the sound hood over the jar.they were expensive-but worth it.blenders are always the "chain saws" of the kitcchen.the Ronson machine sounds like an electric drill in the kitchen when you run it.sounds like when the speed ranges are shifted-you hear what sounds like a transmission shifting gears.I would like to find a Ronson blender----and NO haven't heard from the Thermomix folks-remember I requested a demo from them several months ago?Would like to see and try the machine.
the Westinghouse stove that has the stirrers in it sounds like lab stirrer-hotplates for beakers and flasks.You put a stirring bar in the container of the chemicals you want to mix and heat-Fisher,Welch,Central Scientific had these.and some of those hotplates came home from the lab for cooking duties!and there was a lab stirrer machine that so resembled the motor of a Sunbeam mixer-was in Fisher catalogs.Could be outfitted with various types of stirring rods and blades.And a machine with a Dremel motor set up fora homomeginizer for grinding up tissue samples--meat.

 

[foraloysius]

The Thermomix is x times more expensive than this Cuisinart. I wonder if it performs that much better or has more options than the Quisinart that it justifies the price difference.

 

[tolivac]

I have seen the videos of the Thermomix-just wanted to see the demo and what it could do.I get the impression these machines are sold DTD much like Kirby vacuums and other DTD vacuums.