The milkshake setting left small un-chopped chunks of banana in our drink, which may not be everyone’s preferred consistency. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This model was marginally better at making smooth tomato soup than it was at chunky butternut squash.

Differing from our top two scorers, this soup maker's blade is suspended from the top rather than the base.The ice crushing setting proved great for smoothies, plus there are different speeds for making purées, baby food, cold sauces and dips, and a bonus sauce setting. Below you can read more about exactly who tested these soup makers, and their soup-making credentials. Pulse-Heat Keep Warm: Soup Chef’s exclusive Pulse-Heat Keep Warm function keeps your soup hot and ready, while preventing burning, for up to two hours so it’s ready when you are.

The quality of the blending was great, and it also has a keep warm function that kept our soup perfect for drinking after it had finished blending. I do own a couple of soup cookbooks that I keep meaning to cook more recipes from but knowing how long it’s going to take and the mess it’s going to create I never seem to get round to making them. That said, this is a top performing model that’s intuitive to use and it’ll earn its place in your kitchen.

We take internal temperature readings to check whether it's thoroughly heated and then work out the percentage of water lost during the cooking process – the more moisture lost, the lower the score.