This device is meant to make the soup alone but that is not the case. As for us, this is the second try for this blender, actually we had already returned the first. The engine does not start during the program, one is compelled each time to remove the bowl from running the engine, the blade and the brewer by hand and restart the program. This means we are obliged to stay next. At that price it is expected that it will work ... We may have fallen each time on a bad run, it would be out of luck.