Hmm, and I might try a bit of apple in there.... So few recipes are really special in the sense that they're more than the sum of their parts
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Aldi soupmaker
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On another group, someone in the USA mentioned they had bought a Vitamix soup machine. Wondering what they meant, I looked it up and found this:
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hundred quid for a bleeding liquidiser! (Even with a 1200W element, it is at heart a liquidiser.) Maybe the Aldi one at least wastes less money before ending up at the car boot sale...
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Stick blender washes itself in a pint glass with some water and a dab of WU liquid.
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ooked/tinned items and liquids at the end it can make a fair bit more in on= e go.
dirty, set and forget. 3yr warranty. Does smooth, chunky, and mix of both.
n routine was just a salesman's dream. A lot of unusually loud and entirely= pointless beeping.
ocessing time. If some folk want to work for half an hour every time for ye= ars for =A340 I guess that's their choice.
ervings a go =3D =A31.70 less, so its paid its cost completely after 23 use= s, and there's the labour saved too.
Before getting the thing, soup making involved choppping stuff, half an hou= r at the stove, blending, and cleaning things up. I could use a food proces= sor, but the hand blender is less cleaning.
Now most ingredients are just chucked in as is, and the machine left to it.= Afterwards the cleanup's quicker because of the semieffective self clean.
Compared to tinned, the saving is in cost, not to mention quality.
Compared to making it in a pan, the saving is time. That 30 minutes cook & = blend time I can do something else. How many half hours is =A340 worth?
Its minestrone tomorrow.
NT
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washes the pint glass as well...
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fazakerley!
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True, dat. I recently bought a replacement slow-cooker, of 6.5L capacity, so blending to mush will become a total pita, I can see. The old s.c. was a mere 3L and much more managable. [1]
Excellent suggestion.
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That was the fate of my original slow-cooker until I rediscovered it last year and put it to hard use for several months. I'm now a total convert to them (always was, but allowed it to lapse).
I also discovered that slow-cookers can be used as small bread ovens, so that's a use for the old one with the broken crockpot.
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Both sound good.
Onion, potato, leek, stock cube, water. Blitz. Mmm.
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You forgot the lump of butter melted in before serving!
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Is that the one they blend the chicken carcas in on the TV promos?
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Strange this chicken carcass lark. After a lot of faffing about you end up with mostly pure gelatin, which actually has no flavour at all
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You put the butter on bits of french bread and dip that in :)
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As well...
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Well I shall try the lump of butter dropped in before serving next time I make it.
I planted 60 leeks on my allotment a few months ago. At the time I thought 'that's a lot' but suspect it isn't. :)
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cooked/tinned items and liquids at the end it can make a fair bit more in = one go.
ms dirty, set and forget. 3yr warranty. Does smooth, chunky, and mix of bot= h.
ean routine was just a salesman's dream. A lot of unusually loud and entire= ly pointless beeping.
processing time. If some folk want to work for half an hour every time for = years for =A340 I guess that's their choice.
servings a go =3D =A31.70 less, so its paid its cost completely after 23 u= ses, and there's the labour saved too.
our at the stove, blending, and cleaning things up. I could use a food proc= essor, but the hand blender is less cleaning.
t. Afterwards the cleanup's quicker because of the semieffective self clean= .
What's your problem with simmering? I never find the need to stand over then pan for that length of time.
E.g. potato, onion, leek, butter, sherry, seasoning left over a low light to sweat for 10 mins, stirring occasionally. Add stock, bring to boil, simmer until done. Total time at the stove less than 5 mins. Easily time to do something else in between.
MBQ