advice sought about cooking appliance

Caleo

Please advise me about any appliance you know of that helps with cutting and chopping vegetables and herbs for soup. Thanks very much!

I use very sharp knives and herb scissors.

Must Have Ideas has a good manual food chopper with different blades for different shapes/slices

I second the thermomix - i have bought one on hp - I use it every day. its a miracle worker

Caleo for scraping carrots I use a metal pan scourer, it works a treat.

I have a kenwood food processor does everything chops veg, grates, makes bread, pastry, a true all rounder.

I bought a mini chopper from Lakeland, from the 'Good Grips' range - it is very efficient, assuming you can thump the handle and don't have arthritic fingers.

Use a mini chopper but make sure the controls are not too small. Otherwise buy frozen prechopped veg such as the base mix at Morrisons, contains the basic soup and casserole veg. I'm sure other supermarkets do their own. I find it's easier to use just a small amount that way.

I agree with the ninja chopper. I have one and its great. I cant chop veg due to arthritis in my fingers so this is a perfect for me.

For Caleo - here's a link to Lakeland, usually good quality. www.lakeland.co.uk/in-the-kitchen/cutting-and-chopping/mandolines-slicers-and-choppers/choppers and a chopper from QVC www.qvcuk.com/cooks-essentials-5-blade-press-chopper-storage-lid.product.822452.html ours came from KleenEze (as was) so check them if their successor leaves you a booklet?

spabbygirl

thanks for that nannarose, I just bought a mezzaluna

Oh I really hope it works well for you!

eddiecat78

Caleo If your budget would stretch to £150 the Lakeland Touchscreen Soup Maker would save your dil a lot of time and is very easy to clean

The trouble with soup-makers is they don't really seem very big.
I make about 5 litres at once. They all seem to be too small to me.

The rather smart Lakeland one only does 1.4 litres if hot.
I admit I like the look of it though.