Do I need a soup maker?

rubytwilight

May be worth considering a pressure cooker? Im not organised enough for slow cookers but a pressure cooker I have found useful. Soup done in about twenty minutes one pan to wash and food tastes brilliant. With either this or slow cooker, cheap stick blender def a good buy

RAS

Sainbos had a small stick blender @ a fiver before Christmas.

I would try putting the bendy veg, some lentils a stock cube and boiling water in immediately after breakfast and see what happens? Unless you want to fry stuff and do it properly?

wannabe_sybil

rubytwilight - I had to get rid of my pressure cooker as I was scared of it.

RAS - I'm trying to avoid doing it properly. It won't take two minutes, really, if I start it when I make bear's lunchbox in the mornings.

Thank you for all the suggestions - I do appreciate them a great deal.

CRANKY40

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

Thank you - I can see a stick blender making a much smaller dent in the shopping list!

Edited to add - I suppose that I am used to the idea that slow cookers take all day. Bendy veg soup would only take a few hours, I suppose. When would you start a slow cooker off for a lunchtime soup? Or am I fretting too much?

Make it the day before and keep it in the fridge. I keep old milk cartons - they're fabulous soup containers.

wannabe_sybil

CRANKY40 wrote: »

Make it the day before and keep it in the fridge. I keep old milk cartons - they're fabulous soup containers.

That is a great idea! Thank you!

SailorSam

I got my stick blender in Argos for a fiver and i think the slowcooker for tenner.

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wannabe_sybil wrote: »

Thank you - I can see a stick blender making a much smaller dent in the shopping list!

Edited to add - I suppose that I am used to the idea that slow cookers take all day. Bendy veg soup would only take a few hours, I suppose. When would you start a slow cooker off for a lunchtime soup? Or am I fretting too much?

Why not bung it all in and switch on low just before you go to bed .I do this with soups ,stews casseroles etc and in the morning its all cooked and just needs portioning up/whizzing with a stick blender if soup, and leaving to cool before freezing.It costs very little to use a slow cooker about the same as a 40watt bulb I believe so its not costing you much at all and the food is done by the morning

DianneB

If you like your soup a bit chunky just mash with a potato masher no need for blender. I use my pressure cooker a lot more than the slow cooker they really are a good buy. We call 'bendy veg soup' 'lurky soup' it's whatever is left lurking in the fridge, sometimes we have lurky pie!

Nicki

I had no idea such things existed!

If you like the idea though why not get one off eBay to see if you get on with it. There are quite a few listed at the moment for 99p finishing today with postage under a tenner. If it works for you you've saved £40 if it doesn't you could resell it again.

wannabe_sybil

Nicki wrote: »

I had no idea such things existed!

If you like the idea though why not get one off eBay to see if you get on with it. There are quite a few listed at the moment for 99p finishing today with postage under a tenner. If it works for you you've saved £40 if it doesn't you could resell it again.

I hadn't thought of that. And ebay is my friend, as I tell my OH....

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