Simply prepare and chop your ingredients into small pieces, place them inside the soup maker and choose either the smooth or chunky setting. The Total Control, as the name suggests, really does give you much more control than previous soup maker models. Beeps a bit when cooking and you can have your soup smooth or lumpy, great as you can put your ingredients in, turn it on and off you go and do something else.

It’s wise to pre-cook all meats, as the soup maker may not reach a consistent and high enough temperature alone to be sure meats are fully cooked from raw. What Could Be Better: The only thing I don’t like about this model is the need to keep the lid on when sauteéing. Generally speaking, the suggestions are to use starch heavy ingredients in your recipes like potatoes as a natural thickener, lentils can also be great too. But when you use sautéed ingredients the soup will produce a much more robust and influential flavour. If there’s not enough water things can begin to dry out, and eventually get stickier and attach to the sides of the machine.

Some mention that it stays super hot in the container, it's very easy to clean, and produces piping hot soup.

The soup maker features a durable stainless steel jar, ensuring long-lasting performance and resistance to rust and corrosion. Whereas with all the other Morphy Richards Soup Maker models, you must make a minimum quantity, the Total Control allows you to make other portion sizes, with the options to choose between 2, 3 and 4.If your soup is a little too chunky for your liking, just press the Blend button until the texture of the soup is to your taste. In as little as 21 minutes, you can be sitting down with a bowl of fresh, homemade and nutritious soup. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. They mention that it makes 4 decent size bowls of soup in under 30 minutes without having to stay watching over it. Unwanted Food or Drink Products - Once supply conditions are broken, there are a number of factors outside of our control that can affect the quality of a product.

The 4 pre programme modes cooks a wholesome soup or snack or juice or smoothie within minutes as per your desired consistency. Although the 501020 isn’t necessarily hard to clean, it just takes a little more care to make sure not all of the soup maker gets wet. There’s also an LCD display too, which tells you how long is left to go on the cooking cycle before the soup is ready to serve. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.After the generous capacity, the next glowing reference for this product is how easy it is to clean.

The better your problem and question is described, the easier it is for other Morphy Richards owners to provide you with a good answer. When you add ingredients and make your soup, it needs to know whether to blend up that soup into a smooth and creamy consistency or leave in more coarse and chunky.For best results chop your ingredients to 1 - 2 cm pieces to allow quicker cooking and better blending. If you don’t really use the saute function as much then I would go for the Total Control – the other features of this model will likely make up for this downside (smaller portions, reheat, easier to clean etc). You get a simple and easy to understand control panel on the top of the lid, with a button for each of the four main functions – smooth or chunky soup and then juicing and blending.