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)

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!

This little soup maker is really useful and fun. I have a vegetable share delivered weekly from a local farm and I was finding it difficult to use everything all the time. This has been great for using up the extra veggies and I love that I can get creative with it. I can easily make a great tasting fresh soup in a few minutes and it’s easy to clean. Recommend.

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

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.

This is a product I both love and hate.Pro:Normally making bean milk requires heating, blending, and filtering. This machine takes care of heating and mixing parts. As a 5 foot person, no need to transfer a pot of boiled beans/nuts with large amount of warm/hot liquid and pour them into a blender is literally life saving.The blender function is powerful enough to grind soaked beans to fine particles. Haven't spot even small bean pieces after four uses. It's as loud as my Vitamix blender. I don't find it problematic.I saw some soybean milk machine on Amazon costing $200-$400, which was hard to justify. For $99, I'm happy with Phillip soup maker for its value.Con:It's very difficult to clean.. The soup maker consists the heating element at the bottom and the blender at the top. The manual says only to rinse the blade part and the interior of the kettle. Gentle soup is Ok for the interior of the kettle when necessary. Only to wipe the exterior of the kettle. Avoid submerging the kettle in water. Can't put them to dishwasher.This is my first use experience. I used the leftover bean crumble/powder to make the second batch to fully extract the flavor. After the second run, there was build-ups at the bottom. As the bean crumble was fine, they stuck on the blade and the metal rod connecting to it. To make it even worse, though I filled water to the max line, it overflew. Bean crumble was everywhere... It went in the gap between the heating element and the kettle.Cleaning the soup maker was an impossible task if following the instruction manual strictly. Dish soap couldn't remove the caking at the bottom, and rinsing would not clean the blade. I used damp nylon cloth (exactly same as thin avocado bags w/ big holes at grocery stores) to wipe the exterior, which somehow still scratched the coating on the kettle...The blender body was black. Once bean crumbles were wet, there was no way I could tell it was clean unless it was fully dry. Then I was stuck in the cycles of rinse, dry, and check, rinse, dry, and check...And the kettle itself was very hot during the run and right after. Do Not Touch the surface. Otherwise, you will get burned like me. And that was how I found out the kettle body was not well isolated, but only a coating on the stainless steel.If you just want the ease to make some soup/soy bean milk on a weekday morning, please do give up your urge. If all these cons still don't discourage you to return or kill the idea of purchasing it like me, below are my solutions based on four uses. So far, it's been very effective.Suggestion:When making soybean milk, only fill up to the minimum line.I have hard water. Even no bean crumble caking at the bottom, the calcium will start to build up after a few use. If this machine is as delicate as the manual says, I can't use baking soda to remove the calcium. Therefore, after every use, I add 1/8-1/4 tsb of white vinegar into the kettle and fill water to the max line. Then run a smoothie setting (no heat). Dump the water, and repeat. With two runs at most, follow the cleaning instruction. Tomatoes are more acidic than this diluted liquid so it should be safe.I believe people using it to make soup solely will still encounter similar issues. Not to mention the companioning booklet encloses recipes w/ diary products. The fact that I take out my laptop to write this review proves how mixed my feelings toward this product is. I just hope Philip can also invest in designing products that are easy to clean. Or at least have some staffs actually clean it thoroughly before writing the cleaning instructions.Hope this review helps you. Good luck.