I made tomato soup with cheese tortellini which is usually a recipe I make with my Dutch oven pot but with the Stirmax it eased this recipe by doing the stirring and cooking for me. I added all my ingredients and then plugged it in and used the soup cooking setting. I like that it has preset cooking times and that it stirs your soup every 30 seconds. It’s very quiet too you can’t hear it sloshing around just a gentle stir. The appliance also included a cookbook which is so nice to know the different types of recipes you can create with the different cooking settings. I can’t wait to try out the shredding feature and create a ton more recipes for my family with this great kitchen appliance.