Before and after preparing the vegetables (and yes, I am very "soup"!), Does it all out, fill it with lots of water, wait until the cooking, remove the mixer and accessories, even while mixing again several passages before it is correct, to stuff the cleaning stuff, and can finally claim to eat. Now after preparing vegetables and some stabs later I poured everything into the machine, I filled with water (a little more than a liter), optionally a pinch of salt, I close this thing, I choose My favorite program and forward! One point, that's all! I can go and take a drink at the end of the cycle, "beep", I arrived with my bowl and I use! And I can go back up to 40 minutes later, it's still hot! And when it is empty: a liter of water, a few drops of dish soap, cleaning program, rinsing under the tap, and you're done! In this season, I can tell you that I eat vegetables with it! And apart from manual operation where you can change everything in time, temperatures, mixing speeds, there are two modes programmed (velvety or stranded) and there it works perfectly! A velvety absolutely no "fiber" is left, and a thick thrown just right! There's no other word: perfect!