How to make Soup using a Vitamix (Vitamix vs Blendtec)
Vitamix Soup vs Blendtec Soup
How to cook hot soups in your blender
Both the high powered Vitamix and Blendtec blenders have been known to make some amazing recipes, but you might not of known that you can make hot soup recipes.
How to make soup in a Vitamix
A simple Vitamix soup recipe will consist of water and vegetables with some seasonings. Close the lid
and run the blender on it’s highest speed for 2 to 3 minutes, the friction from the blades will cause the soup to heat up. If you run the blender for 6 minutes, the soup will reach a temperature over 165 degrees which is the magic number to kill all bacteria. Healthy hot soup in minutes in your Vitamix.
How to make soup in a Blendtec
Same as the Vitamix, add in your water and vegetables with some seasonings and close the lid. Blendtec has an automatic soup button which runs for 90 seconds on some models and longer on others. We will go into more details regarding the automatic features later in the article. Push the button a couple times or until you’ve ran it around 3 minutes and presto you have hot soup. Just like a Vitamix blender, the Blendtec blades cause enough friction when put to the highest speed option which causes heat.
The Vitamix Soup and Blendtec Soup are comparable in taste and texture because both blenders are able to push their blades to extremely high speeds which in turn heats the soup to a high temperatures, above 165 degrees. The longer you let the blenders run on their highest speed the hotter the soup will become.
How the blender heats up soup
Friction is a natural type of heat that naturally comes off the blades when making your soup recipes, when you take the amount of friction produced in such a small confined space such as a Vitamix container or Blendtec blender Jar, you will get a large amount of heat that is able to cook and heat recipes to temperatures of close to 180 degrees. Vitamix blenders can spin their sharp 4 prong stainless steel blades up to 37,000 RPMs (Revolutions Per Minute), where Blendtec blenders can spin their blades up to 28,000 RPMs. Blendtec does have a more powerful motor and thicker blade design which is able to cook the soups a little bit faster than the Vitamix, but both can equally heat the soup to the same temperature.
About the Automatic Settings
The Blendtec and Vitamix both have an automatic Soup Program dialed in on their blenders which can make the Vitamix Soup or Blendtec Soup automatically. If your Vitamix blender does not have a hot soups setting you’ll want to run the blender for 4 to 6 minutes on it’s highest speed. With a Blendtec it takes a little less time, usually 3 to 4 minutes. Blendtec blenders are all digital and all feature a button to push for soup. Vitamix offers a soup setting on the speed dial which stops by itself after a certain amount of time.
RAW soup recipes in your blender are healthier
Raw Vitamix soup recipes are a little more healthier and will give you more nutritional value than liquifying and heating up soup so hot that it kills all the live nutritional value. Look into raw soups for for vegans and raw foodies if you’re interested in keeping the soup more nutrient rich. After 2 to 3 minutes the blender will reach 118 degrees and the live enzymes in your vegetables will began to die off giving you less nutritional value. RAW Soup recipes are the way to go.
How to make Hot Soups Chunky
After your Vitamix soup recipe is liquefied and to the temperature you prefer, now you are able to add in chunky goodness by adding in additional ingredients through the top of the lid and using your pulse feature to chop them in. You’ll want to use your pulse switch(Vitamix blenders) or Pulse button(Blendtec blenders) so you don’t liquify the ingredients, but rather just make little chunks.
You will notice the blade shred the ingredients into little chunks, you don’t want to over pulse because your ingredients will get liquified quickly. This is perfect for adding in corn, beans, chips, and meats for chunky soup recipes.
How the blender lids vent the steam out
Both Vitamix and Blendtec offer vents through their rubber lids which allows for steam to get vented through while the blender is running. Without these vents in the lids the Vitamix soup and Blendtec soup would explode because the steam would build up inside the blender jar as it heats the soup. This tends to be an issue with the Nutribullet blenders because they don’t have any vents and a lot of pressure builds up inside the Nutribullet pitcher when you make soup in it. You can put your hand over the lid while the blender is running and feel with your hand how hot it gets. The Blendtec jar and Vitamix container are both BPA Free which is very important when making a hot soup recipe.
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Automatic Features vs Manual Features
My recommendation is if you have the automatic Soup Cycle on your Blendtec or Vitamix machine, use it. It is a great feature to have and you don’t need to stand next to the blender while it’s running or worry about turning it off. It will run the pre programmed cycle, and then it will turn itself off, making it simple on you. You can restart the blender if the soup isn’t hot enough.
Vitamix soup automatic settings
The Vitamix Soup Blend Program is not a button(accept for the Vitamix 780, and newer Vitamix models), but is rather a setting which you can turn too on the speed dial. As you can see in the photo there are a lot of automatic settings to choose from on the newer Vitamix blenders. Turn the knob to the soup setting and flip the switch to start the cycle. The soup setting on the Vitamix blenders run for 7 minutes.
Vitamix Soup Manual Control
To make the soup manually, simply start the Vitamix and turn the knob to speed 10 and leave it there. If you own a TurboBlend Vitamix blender then for Hot Soups just flip the switch to High. Which ever Vitamix you own, let it run on the highest possible speed. You will see the steam sipping from the Vitamix lid, you can easily stop it anytime and check the soup temperature.
Blendtec Automatic Settings
The Blendtec blenders pre programmed cycle will run for 90 seconds at 28,000 RPMs. From my experience every time you run a full soup cycle the soup will heat up around 30 degrees.
Blendtec soup manual controls
The manual speeds on the Blendtec blenders are also timed. After 50 seconds the manual speeds will shut off turning off the blender cycle. It’s better to use the soup button on the Blendtec blenders because it runs for longer.
In Conclusion,
Making soup recipes in your blender is healthy and can be fun and with the high powered blending capabilities of the Vitamix and Blendtec, it’s easy. Learn more healthy recipes by reading more about these blenders. You can make healthy ice creams, grind fresh flours, make homemade nut milks. Both Blendtec and Vitamix offer deals from time to time, keep an eye out for the deals. Change the way you live, change the way you eat, start by getting a high power blender.
