Soft foods - how to blend/liquidize?

sporina

Hi I have fractured by Jaw and need to have a soft food diet for a while.
Can someone recommend whether I need to buy a liquidizer or blender or what is the difference? And where can I get one? Was thinking of Argos?
The foods I need to blend are soft fruits, veg, chicken etc.. anything that I can mash with a fork/potato masher I will..
I don't want to spend much money and something that is small preferable and easily cleaned.
I don't have any knowledge of such.
PS I am not interested in a nutribullet or anything v high tech like that - just something to blitz some foods... thanks.

Mellor

sporina wrote: »

Can someone recommend whether I need to buy a liquidizer or blender or what is the difference?

They arte the same thing. Liquidizer is just an 80s name for a blender.

PS I am not interested in a nutribullet or anything v high tech like that - just something to blitz some foods... thanks.

A nutibullet isn't high tech. It's just a blender too.

Garb the argos catalogue and pick a simple one that fits your budget. You get what you pay for to an extent.

sporina

Mellor wrote: »

They arte the same thing. Liquidizer is just an 80s name for a blender.




really wow - I had no idea..

A nutibullet isn't high tech. It's just a blender too.

Garb the argos catalogue and pick a simple one that fits your budget. You get what you pay for to an extent.

era as long as it works for a period of time i don't mind.. thanks

Zillah

sporina wrote: »

PS I am not interested in a nutribullet or anything v high tech like that - just something to blitz some foods... thanks.

The only difference between a nutribullet and a blender is that a nutribullet is much easier to clean and has a more powerful motor and better design which pulverised food much better.

I have no idea what you might imagine might be very high tech about it. It's the same thing but better and no more complicated to use.

sporina

Zillah wrote: »

The only difference between a nutribullet and a blender is that a nutribullet is much easier to clean and has a more powerful motor and better design which pulverised food much better.

I have no idea what you might imagine might be very high tech about it. It's the same thing but better and no more complicated to use.

i imagined that it would be high tech as they are €€€..

i am actually looking for something to soften food - eg cooked veg, fruit, fish/chicken as oppose to a liquidizer - but will a liquidizer blend/soften food? i always associated them with more liquid type products - like smoothies, soup etc..

Zillah

You put a bit of liquid in with virtually anything and it reduces it to a smoothie texture. I don't know if a potato and chicken smoothie would be any good but maybe that's just life with a broken jaw.

I'm sure there are knock-off Nutribullets by now that would cost less. They're not high tech they're just really powerful and well designed. Blitz anything, easy to clean.

sporina

Zillah wrote: »

You put a bit of liquid in with virtually anything and it reduces it to a smoothie texture. I don't know if a potato and chicken smoothie would be any good but maybe that's just life with a broken jaw.

its a case of nutrition over taste

I'm sure there are knock-off Nutribullets by now that would cost less. They're not high tech they're just really powerful and well designed. Blitz anything, easy to clean.

thanks

learn_more

A simple hand blender might be all you need , I don't know what your cooking, but say if you made a beef stew all you would have to do it dip the hand blender into the pot. That would be a lot less hassle and hand blenders are cheap.http://www.argos.ie/static/Browse/ID72/29619278/c_1/2%7Ccategory_root%7CKitchen+and+laundry%7C14418476/c_2/2%7C14418476%7CFood+preparation%7C29619252/c_3/3%7Ccat_29619252%7CHand+blenders%7C29619278/r_001/1%7CPrice+Cut%7CYes%7C1.htm