I have never tried gazpacho. For some reason, the thought of cold soup does not appeal to me...but I would try it if it were put in front of me.
The idea of cold soup did not seem appealing to me either.
Soup just seems like a hot food. I choose to think of gazpacho as chilled chopped veggies, more like an eatable salsa, that you eat with a spoon instead of dipping it with a tortilla chip.
I usually use the food processor, but I had the blender handy, and just processed the tomato juice and veggies in parts. I did add a carrot to mine because i like carrots and they are healthy, so I blended it up first, since carrot chunks take a bit more blending . Next time, i will get the food processor out.
It is time to have it out in the kitchen again anyway.
The first time I made it, I didn’t’ realize that the veggies are supposed to have little chunks, so I made it in the blender and had a thick V-8 type of drinkable gazpacho, and I just added some ice cubes and drank it . It was great in the heat of summer !
(Actually, you could heat it up and make it into a nice hot cup of veggie soup. I am trying to remember if I did that or not, but you certainly could, and still have the crispy veggies mostly raw like they are supposed to be in gazpacho.)