Morphy Richards 501050 Clarity Soup Maker Clear Like Glass, 4 programs
The soup maker also features a pause function which allows you to remove the lid part way through the cooking cycle, add herbs, spices or seasoning, and when you reapply the lid the program will pickup where it left off. This soup maker even comes with an additional smoothie function, so you can create delicious, healthy smoothies and juice drinks too.
This soup maker features a Keep Warm mode so your soup is ready when you are, and the Clean Mode makes clean-up easy.
Morphy Richards 501050 Clarity Soup Maker Clear like glass, 4 programs
The Clarity soup maker range is our first that lets you really see the difference.
The clear jug of this soup maker means that you have control over your soup’s consistency, every step of the way. Clear like glass but without the weight, the made with Tritan from Eastman plastic body makes soup making and serving even easier.
Clarity does all the work for you – simply add your ingredients to the soup maker and select either the Smooth or Chunky setting, then leave it to cook away.
- Clear Tritan body – Monitor consistency and cooking, and create the perfect soup for your taste buds
- Fresh Soup in as little as 21 mins – 2 soup settings and blending function
- 1.6L working capacity – Serve up to 4 people in one go
- Keep Warm function – Your soup is ready when you are
- Cleaning program – for easy clean-up
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Clear Like GlassThe Clarity soup maker is constructed from Tritan Plastic which looks like glass, but is lighter, stronger and unlike some other plastics is BPA free, crystal clear and more resistant to marking and staining. Being clear it allows you to monitor your soup as it cooks and you can and tailor the consistency to achieve your desired results every time. | Made to Your TasteThe Smooth program blends and gently cooks soup in just 21 minutes, while the Chunky program cooks wholesome soup with a thicker consistency in 28 minutes. 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. Additionally, the Smoothie function means you can create delicious smoothies in as little as two minutes. | Feed the FamilyThis stylish soup maker fits well into any style of kitchen, and with an innovative top-down design that allows for a large 1.6 litre jug, you can make enough soup for up to four servings at once. Perfect for catering for guests quickly and in style. |
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Ready When You AreThe added keep warm function automatically keeps your soup warm after your selected program has finished for up to 30 minutes, giving you time to finish getting ready for dinner. | Easy to CleanWhen it comes to clean up the Clarity soup maker includes easy clean non-stick coating a Clean program to do most of the hard work for you. Simply add water and soup and start the 4 minute program. Then simply wipe down and rinse and you are ready for next time. | Simple One Pot CookingThe Clarity soup maker is designed to be quick and easy to use. Simply prepare and chop your ingredients, place them inside the soup maker and choose either the smooth or chunky setting. The easy to use control panel features an LED countdown display that shows exactly how long your soup has left to cook while you just sit back and let your soup maker do the hard work. |
| Weight: | 2.28 kg |
| Dimensions: | 23.4 x 16.7 x 27.3 cm; 2.28 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Morphy Richards |
| Model: | 501050 |
| Colour: | Black/Clear |
| Colour: | Black/Clear |
I found this very easy to use & easy to clean
& with the recipe book, great soups
Love this product and my husband loves the soups. Could have done with more recipes to try. We personally loved the chicken & veg and the pea and ham. The others didn’t appeal. The only thing was I found it a bit of a faff to clean. Not hard at all, I’m just a bit lazy. I would recommend this to anyone wanting more veg in their diet that is tasty. Great product.
Easy to use.Have only tried one recipe so far,pea and ham soup:this was tasty.
Bought this for my Daughter who is tickled pink with it. She is a “souper” and uses it nearly every day
Makes really good soup, personal favourites so far creamy chicken and mushroom, and broccoli and Stilton. Served with garlic bread, delicious! Great to be able to see the soup cooking, only downside is cleaning. Even with the clean cycle needs aggressive hand washing as well. Also be wary of tomato soup as it stains.
This was a present, so we have not used it. However, we have been using a similar Morphy Richards soup make for several years and we can confirm that, once you have got used to its method (read the instructions!) it makes very good soup. It has a 1.6 litre capacity. Our preference would be something around 1.8 litres, but nevertheless we cannot complain as in all other respects it’s excellent.
I would recommend this soup maker. Very easy to use. Put the ingredients in, push the button and that’s it. Fantastic soup made. The smooth mix really is smooth, much better than using a stick mixer. Very impressed.
Wish we had bought one earlier. Made loads of delicious soups. Only thing to watch is potato tends to stick/burn so have stopped using it and had no issues with soups subsequently.
This was a Christmas gift to a friend, so I have not used it personally. Reports so far are that she is very satisfied with this produc
It made lovely soup ready to serve in 21 minutes. It was perfection. I didn’t think I’d ever want or need a soup maker, but I was wrong. It’s easy to use and easy to clean and I would highly recommend it.
Although more basic than some on the market this device works well. An early complaint/observation is the way the plastic body discolours after just a few uses. This doesn’t affect the way it works but maybe they should rename it ‘Clarity- but not for long !’
Havent stopped using it since pirchase it does the food excellent cant recommend enough
I’ve never had a soup maker, or made soup before, so I can’t do a comparison. This make the most delicious soup easy. There are only a few recipes in the instruction booklet so I bought a couple of soup maker books. I’ve had it 2 weeks and already made 2 soups and bought the ingredients for 2 more. Cleaning is so easy using the clean function. Love it!!
Gave to my daughter for Christmas. She is thrilled with i
Love it but the plastic jug coloured with curry flavour, I put Milton to clear but it’s stained. Beyond that I love it.
Easy to use and make good soup.
The only thing missing is a basic soup making manual, eg tomato or parsnip soup
I have only had this for a couple of weeks but I am well pleased with the results so far …..
I swithered for a while about soup makers. Read good and bad reviews. I’m really happy I decided to buy as it is a really useful kitchen gadget that makes life easier.
Makes great soup easy to use and clean after use.
Bought as a gift – recipient used it straightaway and is highly delighted with its ease of use, visible contents, and finished product!
Great quality item. Soup in less than 30 minutes and excellent quality.
I used to do my soups in a saucepan and splashing everywhere. With this soup maker, this is all become easier and cleaner. It makes me want to do a soup more often than before. Great buy!
Absolutlely love this soup maker, was soo easy to use and the soup was delicious
Easy to use easy to clean oh and the soup tastes amazing and done in 20 minutes
I was very impressed with it and it makes lovely soup i would recommend it to anyone who likes soup its lovely
This is the second soup maker I’ve owned and it excels the first by far! I love it. Definitely recommend it.
Very easy to use with no complicated stages. Cleans itself which is a bonus.
Only took 21 minutes to produce tasty healthy soup. Was a bit noisy and scary at first.
So pleased with my purchase. A great way to get your 5 a day.
I only used my Soup Maker for the first time today as I didnt realise I would require an adaptor. Easily fixed but I dont remember seeing any note on the advertisement.
I think this was the best soup I have ever made. I just love it and wont hesitate suggesting this to anyone I know.
Thankyou!
I love this. It’s really good, easy to clean and doesn’t take long to make the soup.
This is a really good piece of kitchen equipment. I made a really great tasting thick soup with a mix of leftover vegetables and stock.
It is so easy to use, simply add the ingredients and switch it on. It will start by boiling the ingredients to soften them, and then the blend function will kick in to mix the ingredients together.
The soup maker gives you the option of a chunky or smooth blended soup. I opted for the smooth option and the finished soup was hot, tasty and perfectly smooth. It tasted amazing with a little bit of cream and some crusty rolls.
My Fianc and I both love soup but were finding our electric pressure cooker was taking an age to cook a batch of soup. We love this soup maker as you can cook up a small portion or a whole jug full. We chop up our raw vegetables, add boiling water and a stock cube and set the device to cook the soup, which usually takes around 23 minutes. The soup it makes is perfect, lovely and hot and super quick to make. The size of the jug makes it easy to store away in a cupboard when not in use. You can choose to blend your soup once it is cooked but we prefer our soup to be nice and chunky. This great soup maker has finally given me the confidence to pop on some soup and make it myself rather than relying on my Fianc to get out his large pressure cooker. The soup maker is super quick and easy to clean with no awkward parts to try to clean. This soup maker is making me eat a lot more soup now which is great for my daily vegetable consumption. I highly recommend this soup maker as it is so easy and simple to use.
The Soup Maker was delivered quickly, is very high-quality and easy to use.
There are 3 settings: Smooth, Chunky, Blender. So far I have always taken the Smooth variant and between cooking have used the pause function to stir for seasoning. All you have to do is put all the ingredients up to the minimum – maximum specification, fill up with water and/or cream/cream, season, adjust and in 21 minutes the soup is ready!
I have tried out the recipes mentioned in the recipe book but most of the times, I have just used whatever is available in the house. It works great most of the times but have left the pot burned a couple of times but I think that was my fault as I used too many veggies and less water. Cleaning the burnt pot was quite easy as well as you just have to leave it for a couple of hours filled with water.
I really like that it is transparent so that you can see it cooking and monitor the progress of your soup. Although, mostly, I just switch it on and forget about it until its lunch/dinner time.
I am really pleased with the product and would highly recommend it. 4 Stars
Having read previous reviews I was quite apprehensive about trying this. I seem to have been one of the lucky ones who got one of the “good ones” in that mine hasn’t overheated and cut out. Whilst I love soup I HATE making it as for some reason it always sticks to the bottom of the pot and I’ve no patience for standing stirring constantly for an hour. This was easy to use. Popped my chopped veg and stock in, turned it on and came back to soup ready to eat. I opted for smooth as I’m too lazy to chop my veg all the same size so like to blend it. I got 4 decent lunch sized portions out of it which as I live alone worked out great as it done me for the working week (with a treat lunch on Friday!)
The self clean mode is a god send! No one likes trying to clean things like blenders so anything that does it for you is brilliant!
Over all, I’m pleased with this. I was worried it would be a novelty but no, it’s now my go to gadget as on a Monday I can pop it on half an hour before lunch time and have my weeks worth of lunches ready by the time my morning meetings are done. And that’s my kind of meal prepping!
This review is for the Morphy Richards 501050 Clarity Soup Maker Clear Like Glass, 4 programs
Product arrived well packaged and on time. This is a good quality soup make and easy to use. The instructions are well laid out and easy to follow. I personally googled the item and found some instructions on how to use the product which was simple to follow. Following this I have so far made 3 different soups and all have turned out fantastic. Would recommend for anyone that loves making homemade healthy soup!
It is a simple enough device, bung in the ingredients set the timer/programme and this will heat, stir and soupify. We have had no issues with it but takes a bit of cleaning. Results have been healthy and tasty.
As my wife has problems digesting vegetables a dietician recommended supping them Having read a glowing review of this new model we invested in it and can only recommend it highly. The only minor downside is that the volume only allows the two of us to have soup on two days. Hence we have fresh soup very other day!
A very good and useful soup maker , u can make soup very smooth or with chunks depends on what u like , we like both ,depends on the mode 🙂 very clear instructions and easy to follow. Very simple to use , wash quick also . The soup maker is sturdy and well made , definitely save the time in the kitchen!
I have used a soup maker for a few years and really enjoy making my own soup with fresh homemade bread. I like to make a smooth soup then add chunkys of veg so that I have a smooth thick chunky soup which means putting the smooth cycle on followed by the chunky soup mode. However where my usual soup maker will run the two one after the other this one will not, I have to run the smooth soup mode and wait for 30 minutes for it to cool before I can add my chunks of veg or meat which is a bit of a pain. This soup maker also has a cleaning mode which I have not used as it is so easy to clean anyway, I don’t think you really need it. Other than that it is a good appliance which I will carry on using.
Soup making 5/5
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The best thing about this: it makes gorgeous soup. I was skeptical about how it knows how long to cook different vegetables, but the preset times for each function seem to do a great job as if by magic.
In smooth mode, it heats the ingredients up, and blends them over time in bursts, until the end when it blends them up until smooth. In chunky mode, it just heats the veggies up. At the end of each it remains in “heating mode” so you can serve it nice and hot.
It cooked smooth leek and potato soup to perfection, and cooked frozen chunky root veggies also beautifully, so seems great for a variety of veg and different types and textures. It is capable of making a lot, which from looking at it isn’t obvious, but I’d say it easily makes 4 servings.
If you want to blend either up any more, there is a manual blending button on the top where you can smoothen ingredients out if need be. Annoyingly though, it doesn’t stay in “heat up mode” after doing this.
In either mode, you can lift the lid and add ingredients mid-cooking, it will just pause the cycle.
Design (3/5)
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The design is the only place where it falls short, unfortunately. Just a few caveats – although, it wouldn’t put me off buying it.
First, the good:
* Lid has an inbuilt, grippy flip-out handle
* It’s a great size, fitting lots of ingredients in including fluid
* Clearly marked min/max lines
* The functions are easily marked on the top and are easy to use
* Different animated light patterns to show what stage the cycle is in (like heat mode)
* Timer is clear and finishing beep is loud
* Glass jug design is clever, it’s great to watch the progress and it pours mess-free
* Looks very snazzy and is super sturdy on the base as it’s quite heavy and wide
And the bad:
* The blade isn’t detachable
* The blade obviously sinks passed the max line, so you have to sort of dig it into any chopped up vegetables which is annoying – my partner let go of it doing this at one point sending soup flying everywhere
* The top is quite heavy and the blade being attached makes adding ingredients mid-cooking awkward – you either need to rest it somewhere sideways to use two hands (like to grind pepper) or manoeuvre it one-handed and just chuck bits in
Cleaning 4/5
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Cleaning the unit is fairly seamless, however you can’t submerge either the top or the bottom because of electrics which is a bit annoying. The top is just wipe-clean, which isn’t too hard to maintain.
For the glass jug, luckily there’s a “clean” setting, where you add a teeny bit of washing up liquid, some warm water and set the clean cycle going (only a few mins). This is such a useful function to get some of the more stubborn ingredients off the glass, bottom and blade. You can then wipe clean any remaining residue and rinse the jug out – we then just leave ours upside-down to air-dry and store it on a shelf.
Performance 5/5
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No matter what hardness of vegetable we’ve used it’s showed no signs of struggle or burning out whatsoever, and it chops everything up with ease.
In regards to the other negative reviews (which concerned me before getting it), my partner dropped the lid and fluid went everywhere (we had to dry it out), and it still functions fine, so whether the company have fixed cut-out issues now I’m not sure but we’ve had no issues at all with performance. We do make sure not to overfill it though and clean it properly.
Overall
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All in all, as a soup maker, this makes delicious soup. Whether it’s chunky, smooth or in-between, it makes cooking a pleasure. It does say you can make smoothies, but to be honest I’d just use an actual smoothie maker for this as this is a bit overkill for that.
However, even with the design flaws, the fact washing it on “clean mode” is quick and easy, and it makes making (yummy and healthy) soup a breeze, I can confidentially recommend it highly. We’ve used it a lot so far and it comes with some inspiring recipes too, so we will keep experimenting and I’d say it’s worth the money.
Never having had anything like this before, I was apprehensive at the outcomes I would get.
I picked up a Soup Recipe book alongside this product (cost me 5) and the two combined have made my work lunches a whole new experience!
Personal favourite so far : Moroccan Chickpea Soup.
(Only at recipe 24 of 100 so plenty more to try!!!)
Very easy to use – simply fill with required ingredients, choose Chunky or Smooth, and click Start.
The Machine made a few more noises than I had expected it too – but it’s done in 20mins so not intrusive.
What comes out is perfectly heated, perfectly blended soup (apparently you can make it blend more to get smoother soup but I have not needed to as yet, everything has come out just as I want it to first time).
It suggests “serves up to 4 people per go”. I must be soup-er greedy (sorry – bad pun) because I only get 2 and a bit servings out of a full run.
All told, this has transformed my lunches. I make up a couple of batches on my days off, divide into microwave soup containers and chill, and just grab a new one every day for work. 3 mins in Micro at work, and piping hot home-made soup.
Cannot recommend this product enough!
This is such a good appliance. I have endeavoured to make soup in the past with a blender but got fed up of having to boil all the ingredients first – with the soup maker it is so easy. There are loads of simple on line recipes to follow and it is just a case of throwing it all in and letting the Soup maker do the business. Every soup I have made so far has been fantastic and I actually look forward to experimenting and trying all new broths. Always ample to freeze or chill for later. Very easy to clean and it is like a large kettle, very easy to store. The see-through aspect is quite mesmerising.
I tried this out with one of the recipes provided in the instruction booklet and, It cooked it with ease. Very easy to use , you can choose if you want your soup to be chunky or smooth and, it has the added benefit of have been able to make smoothies too. After your soup is done it has a keep warm function. Overall a great kitchen must have.
I like the idea I can use it for smoothies as well as soups and look forward to giving it a try.
If I had any criticism I would say it is a bit awkward if you need to add anything to the mix after the program has started, you have to have a paper towel handy to put the top bit on due to the blades being attached. That being said it isn’t a prohibitive issue so overall I am happy with it.
Very easy to use and clearly marked – two soup modes, clean mode and smoothie/blend mode. There are only two buttons to press ‘mode’ which chooses one of the above-mentioned modes and ‘start/stop’ – that’s it. Once your chosen mode has completed the soup machine automatically goes into ‘keep warm’ mode for 30mins. At any point you can stop the machine by holding down the ‘start/stop’ button for 2 seconds. Everything needs to be washed by hand as no parts can go in a dishwasher. If anything gets stuck on the heating plate instructions recommend fillling with hot soapy water and leaving for 15mins before wiping away with a clean cloth. The ‘clean’ mode runs for 4mins heating up the liquid you popped in for the clean and wizzes intermitently during this time to help with the cleaning.
I make soup usually weekly especially towards the end of the week with odds and sods in the fridge that are still within date but don’t add up to much individually as a meal. I pop everything in a pan with stock and if there isn’t much left over from the fridge I add frozen veg and a bag of frozen chicken/meat pieces which I always have available, bring to the boil, simmer, use my stick blender to make to a consistency we enjoy and eat with chunks of bread – it works out cheap, stops unwanted food waste and is a hearty meal. Now after using this soup machine I can see how convenient this method is ie one pot, no need to keep watch and the soup keeps hot automatically for 30mins after cooking. This method frees my time up and no extra washing up of a pan and blending tool so I think I’m actually converted. The only downside I can find is the cost of the machine not everyone could afford this price – me however am converted but have knocked one star off because of this.