Old style Preparations for Christmas 2010!!

Stephen_Leak

My "soup maker" is a 3 litre stainless steel stock pot (ASDA, £10) and my trusty Braun hand blender (Argos, £30). Mind you, it was a present to me from me.

Minxy_Bella

Well, I'm sure you know your OH better than us, but if I got a stock pot for Xmas, I'd be boiling your giblets in it!

You don't have to get her a Vitamix (which are brilliant but about £500) but maybe one of these might do the trick?

If she wants a soup maker, I'd get her a soup maker or something else completely. Seriously!

Oldernotwiser

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I'd be delighted to receive a big Le Creuset pot Excellent for making soups and casseroles, and they look great too.

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A large Le Creuset pan full of stock is going to be impossible to lift unless she has muscles like Popeye!

Risinfromthegutter

...perhaps I won't bother then, I'll just get the recipe book...I thought an accompanying pan would be a great stocking filler but perhaps I am misguided!

Stephen_Leak

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

A large Le Creuset pan full of stock is going to be impossible to lift unless she has muscles like Popeye!

I am not a fan of Le Creuset stuff. For a start, as above, they weigh a ton. They also don't like being heated with little or nothing in them. They aren't indestructible, and can crack if put straight from a hot plate or oven onto a cold surface or into cold water. Any wooden handles can char if put over a hot ring and they don't like being soaked in hot water.

However, the Volcanic orange ones are a style icon.

redlady_1

Give the bloke a break...he is trying. Afterall, how many of us would be well chuffed with a Kenwood Chef or the like? And she has asked for it too.

Try Ikea as they have something similar to Le Creuset but not so heavy.

[Deleted User]

I make all of my soup in my SC ,reasonably cheap from Argooose around £12-15.Plus there is a really nice book caled The Soup book ' orginal or what,:) but I don't lknow how much it was as it was a present from a friend.Soup is so easy to do, just stock plus whatever veggies you fancy chopped up and cooked then blended with a hand blender,or if your like me who has a bit of a wonky arm then you put it through your kenwood food blenderand then pour back into the Sc and just give a stir ,job done .You really can't go wrong making soup. as easy as making a cuppa

Penelope_Penguin

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

A large Le Creuset pan full of stock is going to be impossible to lift unless she has muscles like Popeye!

I'm 5'4" and haven't got huge muscles, and can easily lift a full large Le Creuset casserole of soup

Sassers

Hi there
I have to agree with jackie - buy a slow cooker instead and a handblender. They can be used for other things too not just soup.My slow cooker is great for doing slow cooked beef and lamb joints. Gammon is lush.... As for Le cruset, they look lovely and like Stephen said are a style icon, but you need superman muscles to lift them, they are tempremental and chip like mad.
Hope that helps
Sassers x

billieboy_2

I gave up using my Le Creuset pans years ago because they got so heavy for me:o.

As another poster has said a big stock pan from Asda for £10 and a stick blender are ideal. It's a lot less faff than pouring from the saucepan into the blender and then back again and if you're making a bit batch you have to keep repeating whereas with a stick blender you just stick it in and do the whole lot in one go. Saves on washing up as well.

But on the other hand, she has asked for a soup maker . HTH.