Salter Digital Soup Maker EK5118V2 review

About the Salter EK5118V2

The EK5118V2 is a jug-style soup maker with a heating element and blades built into one unit. You chop the ingredients, add liquid, pick a setting and it cooks and blends in the same jug. The jug is 1.6 litres and Salter says it serves up to four. It runs at 900W.

There are five presets: smooth, chunky, drinks, keep warm and blend/clean. Auto memory lets you lift the lid to add ingredients, and the cycle carries on from where it stopped. Overspill sensors are built in. Blend/clean is the self-cleaning function.

The unit measures 29 x 23.5 x 16.4 cm and weighs 2.6kg. Salter says it is not non-stick and not dishwasher safe. The brand's page does not list what comes in the box or the cord length.

What owners report about the Salter EK5118V2

Owner feedback for this exact model is thin online. The one detailed UK write-up available is a Mumsnet review, and it is from a single reviewer, so treat it as one household's experience.

That reviewer found the controls simple and the smooth setting effective, and liked the keep-warm function. Smooth and chunky took about 25 minutes, which was longer than other machines they had used. A few potato lumps were left at the bottom after the smooth cycle.

The complaints were about cleaning and noise. Burnt-on residue needed a proper scrub, because the base cannot be submerged and blend/clean only loosens it. The beeping at the end of a cycle was persistent. The reviewer put the comfortable batch at about three servings, four with bread or salad, and said it is not suited to cooking for the whole week.

Who the Salter EK5118V2 suits

It suits a household of two to four that wants a plain soup maker with a stainless steel jug and an auto memory for adding ingredients. It is simple to use, and keep warm is handy if dinner is later than planned.

Look elsewhere if you want to sauté onions in the same jug: the Morphy Richards Total Control 1.6L Soup Maker 501020 or the Lakeland Sauté Soup Maker 27214 do that. If you want to blend cold drinks and sauces too, the Ninja Foodi Blender & Soup Maker HB150UK is a better fit. For one or two people, the Morphy Richards Compact Soup Maker 501021 is smaller.

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