Best Soup Maker 2026: 10 Ranked on Millilitres Per Portion

Twelve thousand three hundred and ninety-two ratings is more than double the next deepest sample in this comparison, and at 4.4 stars that verdict is settled in a way no other soup maker on this page can match. The machine behind it is deliberately plain: a 1.6 litre stainless steel jug, a 1000 watt element, a motorised blade and two programmes, smooth and chunky. There is no sauté, no steamer basket and no app.

That plainness is the argument for it. At 625 watts per litre it sits mid-table on heating power, which translates to soup in a little over twenty minutes, and the one-button operation means the failure modes are few. It is the machine you buy when you want soup twice a week for years rather than a gadget that also makes milkshakes, and the review count suggests a lot of British kitchens reached the same conclusion.

Two things in the listing deserve flagging. It promises soup for up to six people from 1.6 litres, which works out at 267ml a head — Hamilton Beach, the only brand here that publishes the millilitres, calls 250ml a six-portion serving and 450ml a four-portion one, so treat this as a four-bowl machine. And the bullet advertising it contains a plain typo, offering soup in "less than tweny five minutes". Neither changes what the appliance does, but the six-person claim will change what you buy if you take it literally.

At £36.20 this is the least expensive soup maker in the comparison by nearly four pounds, and it gives up remarkably little to get there. The jug is 1.6 litres of stainless steel, the element is 1000 watts, the same 625 watts per litre as the Morphy Richards Classic that costs twenty pounds more, and there are 4,388 ratings at 4.3 stars behind it.

What earns it second place is the specification table rather than the price. Daewoo publishes dimensions of 26 x 18.5 x 36cm, a weight of 2.58kg, the wattage, the capacity and — unusually — a straight yes on auto shut-off, a field several rivals here either leave blank or answer no. It also lists dry burning prevention and an interlocking lid. Meanwhile the three-year warranty is the longest offered by any machine on this page other than Tower.

The catch is the same portion fiction as everywhere else: the title advertises up to six portions from 1.6 litres, which is 267ml a bowl. The listing also loads fourteen separate claims into the special features field, from jam making to keep warm, without a single number attached to any of them. And at 4.3 stars it shares the lowest rating in this comparison, so while the sample is large enough to trust, the verdict it delivers is good rather than excellent.

This is the best-rated soup maker on the page, 4.8 stars across 4,325 ratings, and it is also the only one that tells you the truth about capacity. Buried in the fifth bullet is a line no competitor prints: max fill 1.7 litres cold, 1.4 litres hot. That is an 18% reduction the moment the heating element comes on, and there is no reason to think the other nine jugs behave differently — they simply do not say. Ninja publishing it is the single most useful piece of information in this whole comparison.

The hardware justifies part of the price. It is a genuine hot-and-cold blender rather than a heated jug with a blade: a heat-resistant glass jug with non-stick coating, a tamper for thick mixtures, auto-stir, a dedicated cleaning programme and ten Auto-iQ presets alongside six manual settings. If you also want a blender, this replaces two appliances, and 1000 watts across a 1.4 litre hot fill is 714 watts per litre, the second highest here.

However, £180 is three times the median price on this page and five times the cheapest. It also contradicts itself on size: the bullets give H42 x W38 x D20cm while the specification table says 21.5D x 20W x 45H — eighteen centimetres apart on width, which is exactly the measurement that decides whether it fits under a wall cabinet. And the same machine sells under a second ASIN at £179.99 with the identical 4,325 ratings.

Nearly everything in this category is built around a 1.6 litre jug, which is too much soup for a household of one or two and means reheating on day three. This compact soup maker holds a litre, and 8,588 ratings say the smaller size is the right call for a lot of people. It is the second deepest sample on the page.

The interesting number is the one nobody advertises as a ratio. Nine hundred watts across one litre is 900 watts per litre, the highest heating density in this comparison and 44% above the 1.6 litre machines, which is why Morphy Richards can quote smooth soup in under 19 minutes and chunky in under 31. Less water to bring to the boil, the same class of element. The specification table is also one of the most complete here, listing dimensions of 21.3 x 15.7 x 22.7cm, a weight of 1.71kg, the voltage and four programmes including smoothie and a separate blend setting.

Two caveats. The listing claims three servings from one litre, which is 333ml a head — more honest than the six-portion claims elsewhere, but still short of the 450ml Hamilton Beach uses for a proper bowl, so read it as two servings and a small third. And the specification table answers no to auto shut-off, one of only two machines here to do so, which matters more on a compact jug that boils dry faster.

Softening onions, garlic and celery in fat before any liquid goes in is where most of the flavour in a soup comes from, and it is the step a heated jug forces you to skip or to do in a separate frying pan. This machine sautés in the jug, then cooks and blends in the same vessel, and it is the only appliance in this comparison that does. At 4.5 stars across 3,885 ratings the reception is among the best here.

There are four settings — smooth, chunky, compote and a blend-pause that lets you check the texture and carry on — plus a glass lid so you can watch it, an LED panel and a detachable cord. Morphy Richards quotes twenty-one minutes for soup, which is at the fast end of the field.

Where it loses ground is the specification. The bullet describes a "lightweight aluminium pot" that is non-stick coated; the specification table and the product title both say stainless steel. Those are different metals with different scratch tolerance and different behaviour when you are frying at the bottom of a narrow jug, and on a machine whose whole point is sautéing, that is the one field you needed answered. The dimensions are given as 22.4L x 17W centimetres with no height at all, no wattage is published anywhere, and the listing repeats the unsourced claim that the Serrator blade "stays sharper 12 time longer than an ordinary blade" — twelve times, no standard cited, typo included.

Tefal is the only brand in this comparison that treats heat retention as a specification rather than an afterthought. The Easy Soup has a double-insulated body and a keep warm function that holds serving temperature for a stated forty minutes — a number, not an adjective, which puts it ahead of the several machines here that list keep warm as a feature and say nothing about how long it lasts. There are 3,869 ratings at 4.5 stars, joint second-best average on the page.

The rest is competent and honest. Five hot and cold programmes covering smooth soup, chunky soup, compote and smoothie; four stainless steel blades set into the lid rather than the base, which makes the jug easier to clean out; a full dimension set of 23.4 x 22.4 x 39.6cm; and 1000 watts across 1.2 litres, or 833 watts per litre, the second highest heating density here. Tefal also quotes four servings from that 1.2 litres, which is 300ml a bowl — the most restrained portion claim of any brand in this comparison bar Hamilton Beach.

The problem is arithmetic of a different kind. At £79.84 for 1.2 litres you are paying £66.53 per litre of capacity, against £22.63 for the Daewoo. Unless the insulation and the forty-minute hold matter to you specifically, two machines above it do the same job for less than half. The colour field also reads "White & Stianless Steel", which is a small thing but sits on a listing at nearly eighty pounds.

This machine is on the list because of one sentence in its second bullet: 4 to 6 servings per jug, "450ml for 4 portions, 250ml for 6 portions". Nine other manufacturers sell you a portion count and leave you to guess what a portion is. Hamilton Beach shows the working, and in doing so hands you the yardstick that measures everybody else — including the Morphy Richards Classic at number one, whose six-person claim turns out to be 267ml a bowl.

The appliance itself is a solid mid-price 1.6 litre unit: stainless steel jug, auto-stir, an overspill sensor, a one-touch angled digital display that you can actually read from standing height, and soup in thirty minutes or less. The dimensions are published in full at 20 x 20 x 29.2cm and 2.3kg, and at 20cm square it has the smallest footprint of any 1.6 litre machine here.

Two things keep it at seven. There are only 555 ratings, the second thinnest sample on this page, so the 4.4 average is less settled than the figures above it. No wattage appears anywhere in the listing, which means you cannot calculate the watts per litre that separates a nineteen-minute machine from a thirty-one-minute one — and thirty minutes or less is the slowest quoted time here. The listing is also hand-wash only, and the same product appears under a second ASIN with the identical 555 ratings.

Put this listing next to the Morphy Richards Classic at number one and you have the clearest evidence in this comparison that portion claims are written by marketing rather than measured. Both machines hold 1.6 litres. The Classic says up to six people. This one says serve up to 4 people. Same brand, same year, same capacity, and a 50% difference in what the company considers a bowl of soup — 267ml against 400ml. The 400ml figure is the credible one; it matches a tin.

As a machine it sits between the two Morphy Richards models above it. Smooth soup in twenty-one minutes and chunky in twenty-eight, a keep warm function, an LED countdown, an easy clean cycle, a brushed stainless steel body, a detachable cord and an add-to function for dropping in ingredients partway through. At £57.25 with 2,309 ratings at 4.4 stars, it is fairly priced for what it is.

The listing quality is the reason it is not higher. No wattage is published, so there is no way to work out the heating density. One bullet refers to "the 16L Soup maker", a missing decimal point that would make this a bath rather than an appliance. And it repeats the Serrator blade claim word for word from the sauté model — sharper for twelve times longer than a standard blade, no standard named, same typo. When three fields on one page are wrong, the field you actually needed is the one you should assume is wrong too.

The hardware here is fine and the price is good. A 1.6 litre stainless steel jug, stainless blades, 1000 watts, the same 625 watts per litre as machines costing twenty pounds more, 1,389 ratings at 4.3 stars, and a three-year guarantee subject to registration. At £39.95 it is the second cheapest soup maker in this comparison.

Then you read the specification table. Tower gives the product dimensions as 25.4 x 5.08 x 6.86cm. Multiply those out and the entire external volume of the appliance is 885 cubic centimetres — 0.885 of a litre, barely half of the 1.6 litres the jug is meant to hold internally. It is not a rounding error or a packed-flat measurement either: 5.08cm is exactly two inches and 6.86cm is exactly 2.7 inches, so the field was converted from somewhere rather than measured.

Crucially, the same three numbers appear on Tower's 1L T12056, a different appliance with a different capacity. One dimension field, copy-pasted across two products, neither of which it fits. That leaves a buyer with no way to know whether this machine clears a wall cabinet, which for a jug appliance around 30 to 40cm tall is the thing you most need to check. Everything else about the listing is unremarkable, including the standard six-portion claim from 1.6 litres — 267ml a bowl — and an auto shut-off field answered no.