Thick Soup Equipment Essentials

Making homemade soup recipes is easy, as long as you know a few basics and have some decent kitchen equipment. Here is the list of kitchen essentials that you will need in order to make soups.

The kitchen equipment does not need to be expensive, but it does need to be good enough to do the job. The basic tips to remember in order to save money when equipping your kitchen are:

1. Do not buy top of the line, unless you find a really good deal, as 2nd tier products are usually good enough for home use.
2. Try to buy items that multi-task — that is, they serve more than one useful purpose.
3. Do not go for the frills until you have all of your basics.

Basic equipment

While heavy pots are a drag to move around the kitchen, they are great when making soups. They hold heat, allow you to maintain steady simmers and gentle boils and will keep soup warm for a nice long time. Without a doubt, your soup pots and stockpot will be the most important kitchen equipment when it comes to making homemade soup. With the possible exception of your chef’s knife and a soup ladle, nothing else will be used in every single soup you make.

These are long-handled implements with a fine-mesh or perforated-metal surface. Usually made from stainless steel, a skimmer is used for removing froth and scum from the surface of stock and broth during its preparation or from simmering bean and rice dishes. It’s also used for retrieving small pieces of fried foods from hot oil and for lifting pieces of food from poaching liquid.

When you blend soups, do so in batches, let the blender run for 2 or 3 minutes for each batch (this will seem like a long time), and keep a kitchen towel over the lid to protect yourself from any heat-pressured created splatters. Always be careful when blending hot soups, an immersion blender is much safer to use.