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  • DianneB
    DianneB Posts: 884 Forumite
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    I use a pressure cooker for soups, makes them in minutes, then blend with a stick blender.
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  • maddiemay
    maddiemay Posts: 4,986 Forumite
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    I managed with a pan and potato masher and then a stick blender for 50 years and then got poorly and would forget the pan was on and poor gr made using the stick difficult (soup up the walls lol). I bought a soup maker and we love it. It makes 6 portion for us, either 3days of lunches or tubs for the freezer, great when I find YS offers.

    (Should read poor grip!)
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  • cliffsgirl
    cliffsgirl Posts: 367 Forumite
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    I've got a soup maker and it's brilliant. Put everything in choose chunky or smooth option and switch it on and forget about it till it's done. Makes lovely soup we use it all the time. When I bought it my partner scoffed saying what a waste of money, what's wrong with a saucepan but now he even admits it's one of the best things we ever bought.
  • LameWolf
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    maddiemay wrote: »
    I managed with a pan and potato masher and then a stick blender for 50 years and then got poorly and would forget the pan was on and poor gr made using the stick difficult (soup up the walls lol). I bought a soup maker and we love it. It makes 6 portion for us, either 3days of lunches or tubs for the freezer, great when I find YS offers.

    (Should read poor grip!)
    That's why I use the food processor rather than the stick blender. ;)
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  • AElene
    AElene Posts: 78 Forumite
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    I've never used a soup maker, but if you're pushed for time it sounds like a time-saving gadget, so may be useful for you?

    Soups are really easy to make in a saucepan, just fry some onions and garlic and veg/meat, then add your stock, simmer till cooked, season and blend if required.

    (I would love a food processor but the budget will only stretch to a stick blender at the moment!)
  • zippychick
    zippychick Posts: 9,364 Forumite
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    there's been lots of discussion in this older thread too.

    let us know what you decide!

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  • purpleivy
    purpleivy Posts: 3,573 Forumite
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    Instant pot for soup. I wouldn't mess around with a task specific piece of equipment. I also wouldn't buy a cheap immersible (stick) blender. I did that once and it melted in my mushroom soup!
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  • Jojo_the_Tightfisted
    Jojo_the_Tightfisted Posts: 27,228 Forumite
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    Spendless wrote: »
    If soup makers were cheaper I'd have bought one to try it. I seem to have a problem with veg/water ratios. My stick blender always seemed to have the soup too watery and the one time I tried the slow cooker instead of a pan, it was even worse. I didn't replace my stick blender when it broke for this reason, as I wasn't using it for anything else. I bought a worktop blender instead (just cheap one) and better results are got, but that's by straining a lot of the water off before blending it.

    Use the tiniest amount of water, just covering the veggies, and just have the kettle boiled ready in case you need to add any more liquid. I don't use fat/flour to thicken anything and don't use dairy, so I normally stick a potato into the veggies to add an element of starch and a richer texture if I'm not adding pulses, pasta or grains.
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  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,621 Forumite
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    I'm another one who favours a large saucepan and a stick blender and I make a wide variety of soups during winter months. Our butcher often provides a bag of chicken carcasses for making stock which vastly improves the flavour and texture and I use an old fashioned pressure cooker to speed up the stock making process.
    We often eat chunky soups but the stick blender is used for making batches of soup for the freezer. I freeze these in plastic one pint milk bottles which store well in the freezer without the risk of bags bursting, and these store two generous portions. To thaw, if you don,t have a microwave, just take the plastic bottle out of the freezer and immerse in a bowl of hot water for a couple of hours.
    Have learnt the lesson that too many kitchen gadgets just take up storage space in cupboards which could be put to better use.
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