To be excited about my new soup maker?

[needastrongone]

It arrived today, happy days!

If I am not BU, then I am at the very least being middle-aged

Or have an extremely uninteresting life to be this excited...

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I've never quite seen the point in a soup maker. I make soup in a pan and then blitz it with the hand blender. I don't know what else a soup maker does. Perhaps you cold enlighten me.

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sounds great, keep us posted.

I have one and it's awesome, it's made it to my permanent worktop gadgets rather than being abandoned to the cupboard to gather dust like the waffle maker

I use it mist days in winter and I no longer have left over veg going limp in the fridge.

I have a saucepan that seems to do the job. I like lumps in my soup.

Not middle aged, my 29 year old friend has asked for one for Christmas ;)

Is that the new fancy name for the saucepan or the blender?

I love making soup.

Sorry, was only meant to be light hearted

Being excited about something rather mundane.

Think it does the whole thing in one pot, I don't have a hand blender so was using the food mixer for soup.

Further posts, crossed with mine

Equally middle aged here, because I am now consumed with curiosity about what a soup maker is. I suspect I want one …

It's a food blender that gets hot.

You can also get food blenders with little taps on called "smoothie makers".

I want a "roll eyes" smiley like you get on better other forums.

Great Amazon reviews though

It does non smooth soup too y'know and its quicker than using a pan and it makes smaller batches which is great for me and DS3 otherwise I make a big pan and it goes off or I eat way to much.

It's very handy for when I'm rooting around the fridge, I find a couple of flaccid leeks and a celery and a few bendy carrots, I can chuck them in with a stock cube and some water, press the button and disappear for a few minutes and then I come back to perfectly blended (or not if that's your thing) warm soup.

But you can't 'sweat' the veg in it though can you? (which is what I thought you were supposed to do when making soup.) Aren't you just boiling everything and doesn't that take away from the taste?

I really cant see the point, and I love kitchen stuff

"It's very handy for when I'm rooting around the fridge, I find a couple of flaccid leeks and a celery and a few bendy carrots,"

Hold me back.

Soup season is a good time of year OP! All hail the winter soups.

The only thing is is that I always start my soup by frying an onion, with these soup makers do you just bung everything in raw with the stock?

My friend has one that was a gift and we laugh quite a lot about it. That said I do love a kitchen gadget. I recently bought a spiralizer which has most certainly changed my life.

My Mum has one and loves it! She does advise that you have to sautee the onions first tho.

Soups would not taste the same without frying stuff off first though- that's what gives a great depth of flavour.

Exactly my point squoosh. I love homemade soup but the thought of bunging everything in with boiling water is not what I think of as proper homemade soup...

Lol Tits I can do "non smooth soup" too - I just don't stick the hand blender in the pan. And if I want to do smaller amounts, I use......... a smaller pan

needastrongone but wouldn't buying a hand blender have been cheaper and taken up less space ...... and it could have been used for other things

Hope you enjoy a winter filled with delicious soup really.

Meh, I find mine handy so ner

For you though OP,

If you're they type to make pulled pork, I can really recommend sticking some in the SM with a drained tin of pinto beans, a drained tin of sweetcorn, a carton of Passata, a squirt of bbq sauce and a dash of chilli sauce and put it on the chunky setting, It makes a lovely Mexican-ish soup that's really nice with tortilla chips and a dollop of sour cream and a squeeze of lime. :)

Thank you tits - the Mexican soup sounds lovely. I like both smooth soups like the one I have made today in the slow cooker (pre-delivery), also chunky veg types and chicken broths.

I would also like to admit to having 3 slow cookers, all of which get used.

I am lucky to not have any space issues.

Sometimes I saute my onions and brown the meat pre chucking in the slow cooker, sometimes I don't. The 'correct' side of my would always err on the side of frying off the onions, but I can't honestly tell the difference.

What is a spiralizer, may I ask? Do I need one?