Soup Equipment Essentials

A good pot is the absolute number one key essential most important piece of equipment you need when making soup. 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 nice long time.

Any large, wide-mouth, heavy pot works. My favorite is an enameled cast iron pot from Le Creuset. The iron holds heat remarkably well while the enameled surface is non-reactive, smooth, and (bonus prize) comes is lovely colors.

You need a good blender to make creamy or puréed soups. 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.

This blender has a wide base, which helps soups purée evenly quickly, and a good motor. Some blenders have many more speeds, but I've never found that more than a decent "on" and "off" were necessary.