I am researching these blenders that heat the ingredients and then blend all in the machine automatically to make soup. I don't get enough veg and find prepping soup really difficult and causes loads of washing up too. Does anyone have any experience of one of these machines please? Thanks.
Charlie.
Sorry I don't know about these machines. To make soup I throw beg and stock cube in a saucepan (& water of course) and boil until they are soft. Then I use a hand held blender in the saucepan. The end of the blender washes easily by turning it on in a bowl of soapy water (or it can go in the dishwasher).
Not sure if thus will help you, but they are cheaper than the all in one machines and you haven't got the hassle of taking them apart to easy it.
Becky
Whoops veg not beg!
I have to confess that I have virtually every gadget on the planet but as bpeal1 says it is just easier all round to stick everything in a pan and boil well before blending with a hand blender. There really is no easier way as there's only the pan and blender head to wash. The machine soup makers are fiddly to dismantle and wash, they also tend to collect greasy kitchen dust. hope that helps xx
One of my neighbours has got an amazing machine that seems to do everything - it makes ice cream in summer & warm stews in winter, creates pastry, purees veg, grates cheese, mixes bread and so on. But I think they probably cost the same as a small car (she runs a small guest house so is cooking for 10 nearly every night). And can't imagine it's fun to wash it up. Like others above I think saucepan & handheld bender is easier too - you don't have to chop veg that small. P
The best way I,ve found to get round having to prep the veg is to use a packet of frozen mixed veg and a stock cube.I just top it up with boiling water and let it do it's thing.Then use a hand blender.It does save on the washing up. I used to blend it in the food processor but that created more problems and lots of washing up.
The only thing I haven't found an easy way round is how to peel enough potatoes for Sunday lunch unaided.This always involves my husband and a potato peeler. xx
I hadn't thought of using frozen veg. That is a great idea.
Sometimes if we have veg left over from sunday lunch I make up a stock cube in a large glass measuring jug and then add the left over veg, blend it with he hand blender and then microwave it for a couple of minutes to make sure it is hot.
Hi avjh
I use the par boiled frozen potatoes for my roasts and they are lovely, i just heat up some olive oil in a roasting pan and then add the frozen potatoes to the oil (sealing them in the oil), then put the pan in the oven for 30 mins. EVERYONE who has tried them thinks they are the best roast potatoes in the world. May be a bit of a cheat but it stops the peeling nightmare 
Re veg, i get the frozen veg like avjh said or if i want the vitamins i use the pre prepared fresh ones.
Ella x
Hi Charlie
I think know the one you mean, I saw one being demonstrated in John Lewis & really wanted one, however it was around £400, which I don't have. It was a totally amazing bit of kit. It made soup in 6 mins, making it a raw soup, even more healthy, then to clean you just add water & blitz.
She then made ice-cream in 2 mins!
For us peeps it would be a fantastic investment & I aim to get one…one day 
Just to say thanks for the responses! Just went to Comet where they have a machine for about 80. Its so heavy I can't lift it and couldn't even remove the huge(!) blender jug from the base.......so thats the end of that idea! I did however buy an electric can opener and stopped off for some decent tinned soups! My hands are rubbish right now but if the new treatment works.....
Charlie x
Oh i relate to all this despite being lucky enough to have a domestic god of a husband!
I now look in dread when he comes home with a box of muddy root vegetables because he's been given them by well meaning work colleagues who also farm. The suede (or neep as it's known up here) in particular makes my heart thump badly - so huge and hard I couldn't begin to chop it up now. I used to make the most delicious Delia root veg soup once a week and it tasted great. So I'm saving all these tips from you all now and will hope there's a poor crop of root vegetables where i live this year! TTx
Tilda; I must ask-what is suede, or neep? What does it look like? Or Delia root? Sorry to sound so ignorant. I have gardened and grown all kinds of fresh veggies, and root veggies, but just never heard of those names.
We just had our national Thanksgiving Day Thurs. I brought the turkey carcus home from my son's and will make some fantastic harvest soup from it. First have to boil it is 3 quarts of water, and/or chicken broth, with onion and celery and carrots, chopped. When it's done, I'll add more turkey meat, a can or two of white beans and a cup of my home frozen corn. Let it simmer, season with salt and pepper and maybe some herbs, like Thyme and Oregano.
I could live on that stuff!
Hi there
I guess you're american? So I think you call it a rutabaga? And Delia is a UK national treasure - she's a cook with really good recipes that work. So people talk about Delia soups, and Delia pies, and so on... deliaonline.com. Happy cooking.
I don't know what I'd do without my electric tin opener. When I first bought it, it gave me such a sense of freedom.I no longer had to ask someone else to do it for me.
Thanks for the tip about the roast potatoes Ella32.I'll try that next week. xx
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Helixhelix, Yep, American And I am fond of Rutabaga, though don't often see it in the grocery stores. More often at a farm market in the late summer.
So what do you do with it? Just in soup? With other veg's? My Mom used to cook it like potatoes and mash it, just like mashed potatoes. As kids, we just ate it and said nothing, by teenage years, wouldn't touch it. But I now would. Also have cut it raw and used with a sour cream dip. Thanks! Loret
Oh, your Delia must be the same as our Betty Crocker, or Martha Stewart.
My girlfriend has a sign in her kitchen that says "Martha Stewart DOES NOT live here!
Yes, Delia and Martha Stewart are probably soul mates and certainly don't live in my house either. I use rutabaga mashed (either alone or mixed with mashed potato) as a side veg or to top pies, or in cubes either roasted, in casseroles, in curries, tagines and so on. Can also mix it with other veg and meat to fill pasties and pies. But then I'm a fan of root veg.
Sounds like you are an ambitious cook! Me too, Love to try new recipes. In the winter, that can be my best effort to avoid depression. However, baking breads and cakes are fun, but I have to give them away, elst I would eat wayyy tooo much
Usually ask my son or daughter-in-law to stop by, I have something for them. Their 3 teenagers love it.
Hope you are feeling well, enjoy the holiday season. Preparations are more fun! Loret
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