Good cheapish blender for soup

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I've just made a vat of soup which needed to be blended and disaster struck. Well not quite disaster, but it was annoying. I couldn't find my hand blender any where, so have spent half an hour blending tiny portions in my very tiny food chopper.

The soup I made was lovely though and I would like to do more. Can anyone recommend a blender for soup that works and won't break the bank?

I just use a hand blender. £5-10 most places. Just blend in saucepan

I have this one which I bought for doing purees when DS was a baby - he's now 5.5 and its still going strong.
Made a huge vat of carrot soup with it at DSs request (hmm) last weekend.

So you both think the hand blenders are up to the job? It was one like that that I've lost, but at least they aren't expensive to replace. I just know that I will find the old one as soon as a buy a replacement, but hey ho.

I have a hand blender I bought years ago in Sainsbos for about £10. I blend in saucepan too.

It seems best for us. We have a smoothie maker machine thing we could use but it makes such a mess and so much to clean in comparison. Same texture with basic hand held
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Thanks everyone.

It was the mess rather than the time spent that made me post this. The chopper did the job, but oh my poor kitchen!

I do mine in the saucepan and as long as you get the angle alright its not messy at all. I wouldn't let DS/ DH have a go but me carefully and its fine.

No mess with a hand held, as long as there's enough soup to cover the blades.

Hand blender works like a charm plus there's no messy goblet-washing or transferring of boiling hot soup to deal with. Mine's a Braun.

I always use my hand blender too, less faff!

I'd prefer a hand held too, as you can blend whilst hot.

Usually they recommend cooling a soup, ladling it into a blender and then reheating it. A lot of mess regardless of the blender size and more time needed.

I turn off the cooker top, blend and then reheat it back to simmering quickly.

Ok hand blender it is.

I make loads of soup, at least 3 massive pressure cooker pots a week and would not be without my Kenwood hand blender, it comes with a bigfoot for soup. Definitely better than using a blender as the hot soup will spray out the top, sadly speaking from experience :)

Oh I like the idea of a foot for soup. I will have a look online later.