What's the difference between a juicer/blender/smoothie maker please?

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Aren't they all just the same thing, i.e. tall plastic jug thing with blade in bottom?

I wish to make smoothies using fruit AND veg as well as mush up soup in it like I did with my knackered blender.

they are different

a juicer looks like this and does nothing but extract juice from fruit and veg - spits juice into one jug and pips / pith / bits etc into another. It doesn't liquidise everything you put in the top so what comes out is technically juice not smoothie.

A smoothie maker looks like this and is basically a blender with a tap on the front and IMO a waste of money.

A blender looks like this and will do soup etc.

Just get a blender.

About £40 in my experience!

Why thank you Mrs B for that speedy info - saved me lots of dim witted surfing for the answer.

I 'get it' now. I will get a blender and deffo not one which is Rosemary Conley ot Antony Worrell T's baby.

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