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Homemade soups: stick blender or food processor?
I've decided to eat more healthily, having homemade soups for lunch for the foreseeable. Would you recommend I get a stick blender, or do I need to get a full processor?
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This depends what you get on with best, I like a processor because I find the stick thingy hard to use whereas my husband loves the stick as it's less washing up and he finds it easy to use.
No help I guess sorry. |
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I use a processor as it is cleaner and easier. If I used a stick, I would have soup everywhere.
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I use a stick blender in the saucepan - for me it's quick and easy and avoids the need of transferring the cooked soup into a blender (not that I have one!)
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I use a stick as I like a few lumps of veg in my soup. However, if you want your soup to be velvety smooth, use a liquidiser.
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Flatmate prefers the stick, I use the blender (not my 30 year old food processor, although that would be useful to chop the veg up before cooking of course). You can get it smoother in the latter, but keep back some of the soup if you want to have chunks in too.
I think mollie is right and you just need to decide which you would get on with best. I like being hands-free to get on with something else even if only for 30 secs, the sticks are quite heavy too. |
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I tend to use the stick blender as it is quicker and more convenient - you can do the blending directly in the saucepan rather than having to pour the soup into the processor and then back into the pan afterwards.
I've never found it particularly messy to use a stick blender. |
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What a coincidence. Yesterday I made soup with a standalone blender, and right now I'm eating some soup which I blended with a stick blender.
I was thinking that the standalone blender would do a better job. It didn't. The soup I have right here is very nicely blended indeed. And the stick blender is so much easier to wash. I had no problem blending the soup without spilling any or having any splashing out. |
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I use a stick as I like a few lumps of veg in my soup. However, if you want your soup to be velvety smooth, use a liquidiser.
Today's soup was blended with a stick blender, and was velvety smooth. Other than the deliberate lumps. |
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I use a stick blender in the saucepan - for me it's quick and easy and avoids the need of transferring the cooked soup into a blender (not that I have one!)
Stick blender is a lot easier and the end comes off and can go in the dishwasher. I also like lumpy bits which are easier to achieve with a stick blender. |
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I have both a stick blender and a blender and I do it like this too. Couldn't be doing with getting the blender out, just for a few seconds swizzing then having to wash all the bits.
Stick blender is a lot easier and the end comes off and can go in the dishwasher. I also like lumpy bits which are easier to achieve with a stick blender. ![]() One kitchen gadget I wouldn't crave are those new soup makers - can't see the attraction, for my use anyway. Now a 'thermomix...! My husband goes deaf suddenly if I go on about one.
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One kitchen gadget I wouldn't crave are those new soup makers - can't see the attraction, for my use anyway. Now a 'thermomix...!
My husband goes deaf suddenly if I go on about one.![]() To me it looks worryingly like one of these multi-level marketing systems. You can book a thermomix demonstration or become a demonstrator. I hope it's not like these schemes where you have to pay the firm to sell their products, and there's hardly anything left over for the seller. |
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My eldest daughter has just pointed out to me that I'd have to use a processor every day for a year before it started to pay for itself. Looks like I'll be buying premium, off-the-shelf soups for a while longer.
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My eldest daughter has just pointed out to me that I'd have to use a processor every day for a year before it started to pay for itself. Looks like I'll be buying premium, off-the-shelf soups for a while longer.
Even if your heart is set on a blender, it'd be worth picking up a cheap stick to see how you get on with it. If you like it, you'll end up saving a fortune on shop-bought soups.
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Different capacities as well.
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Argos' cheapest hand blender is only £4.13, or there are better branded ones for £13.
You can get a food processor for £20 or a jug blender for £10-£20, all would be capable of whizzing up a soup and home made soup is much cheaper, healthier and nicer than shop bought soup. |
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I love a good homemade soup. Is it time to start up a soup recipe thread do you think?
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My eldest daughter has just pointed out to me that I'd have to use a processor every day for a year before it started to pay for itself. Looks like I'll be buying premium, off-the-shelf soups for a while longer.
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Oh go on then. I have a terrible tendency of acquiring things, and then assuming that I've addressed the underlying problem without taking further action (expensive treadmill, storage solutions etc). I'll go for a processor, and will instantly feel healthier, whether or not it ever comes out of the box.
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I picked up my stick blender in Sainsburys a couple of years ago for a tenner.
Even if your heart is set on a blender, it'd be worth picking up a cheap stick to see how you get on with it. If you like it, you'll end up saving a fortune on shop-bought soups. ![]() |
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I love a good homemade soup. Is it time to start up a soup recipe thread do you think?
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Bamix Swissline! bin your pathetic stick blenders and bulky machines.
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I love a good homemade soup. Is it time to start up a soup recipe thread do you think?
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I do not use either. I jusy chop meat, veg by hand, takes less than 5 minutes. I like "bits" in my soups
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I love a good homemade soup. Is it time to start up a soup recipe thread do you think?
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