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TIL About Perpetual Stew (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 months ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/til@lemmy.world

A perpetual stew, also known as forever soup, hunter's pot, or hunter's stew, is a pot into which foodstuffs are placed and cooked, continuously. The pot is never or rarely emptied all the way, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary. Such foods can continue cooking for decades or longer if properly maintained. The concept is often a common element in descriptions of medieval inns.

Foods prepared in a perpetual stew have been described as being flavorful due to the manner in which the ingredients blend together. Various ingredients can be used in a perpetual stew such as root vegetables, tubers (potatoes, yams, etc.), and various meats.

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[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 193 points 3 months ago
[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago

Does this mean that they started the first batch thousands of years ago with Theseus in it?

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Them's good eatin'. Add some broth, a potato... baby, you got a stew going.

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[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

There's barely any person left in it these days

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

There's a bit of an aftertaste of tar from his ship tho

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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 13 points 3 months ago

this comment goes hard, mind if i screenshot

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Don't do it, that would get you banned from the internet!

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 points 3 months ago

you can neither stop me nor even tell if i’ve done it 😼

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

What's doing on here? I came because I sensed a disturbance in the Web

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 months ago

puts hands over suspiciously screenshot shaped tummy

…nothing 👀

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

🎶 this is the soup that never ends

It just goes on and on my friends ….

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 3 months ago

I love that lol.

[-] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

no, this is my mother's soup

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago

Best way to avoid cleaning the pot!

[-] BeanGoblin 38 points 3 months ago

Made one during the pandemic lockdown. Lasted about a month before I got tired of soup.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Was it good though?

[-] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

My husband and I had one going for a little over a week before the lockdowns as well. I just kinda lost interest in it.

Kudos to your dedication!

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

One minor cultural artifact of this general idea:

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 months ago

Just don't scrape the pot too hard when stirring it.

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

Look my iron deficiency isn't going to fix itself...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I solve this issue by making my perpetual stew in the crater of a tiny extinct volcano.

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[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

Ah, but what about a perpetual 1 day blinding stew?

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I don't understand this reference.

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[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Fun fact: ever had soup at a restaurant, and then made it at home but it didn't taste quite the same or as good? There's two main reasons:

  1. If it's a restaurant that actually makes their own soups (versus them being shipped in in a bag to be reheated), they're very likely using leftovers to make your soup. So unless you're using the exact same ingredients as the restaurant, it's not going to taste the same.

  2. The bigger reason being that they likely made the soup you're eating at least the day before it's served to you. This gives the ingredients of the soup time to marry, this is that "blend together" they're talking about. This takes time, regardless of what you're cooking, but it gives the ingredients the necessary time overnight to just... Become a better soup.

The leftovers they use have likely been marrying their flavors for a day or two before they're put into the soup, so all of that blended flavor deliciousness is going to blend even more in the soup.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

Remember: you have to start it cooking by putting in a stone.

[-] mdd@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Awesome.

I was leaving the library over day with my son and looked at the cart of free books. Stone Soup was on that cart and damned sure I grabbed it.

Gifted it to a friend on their child's first birthday.

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[-] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 months ago

At what point does a soup become a stew?

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I'd say you can drink a soup but you can't easily drink a stew.

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

To be more specific: you can drink the liquid part of the soup. You get soup with big chunks of meat and veg in it which doesn’t make it a stew even though you wouldn’t be able to drink it.

[-] asap@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

If it's chunky as hella, you got stew there fella.

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[-] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

Incidentally, would a bowl of cereal be considered soup?

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 16 points 3 months ago

What does the FDA say about this?

Add worms and inject soup in brain.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

is this the FDA guide under Trump's team

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[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

If it's kept at a steady temperature above 140F it should be fine.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Some guy falls asleep overnight and suddenly the whole inn is dead from botulism

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Restaurants already do plenty of things which require cooking overnight, though.

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[-] safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch 13 points 3 months ago

Learned that this was a thing in kingdom come: deliverance :D

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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

So we're germs like an issue with this? Or was it okay because it was always kept heated? I mean, obviously they theu didn't know about germs in the middle ages, but they still woulda been there.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

The constant heat and the constant turnover of food/water keep it food-safe

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 months ago

As long as it is always kept hot then it shouldn't be any problem at all. It can never be allowed to cool for very long though.

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 6 points 3 months ago

My favourite soup is the garbage disposal soup. Throw all your food scraps into the freezer and at the end of the week boil it in a soup/stock.

This hunters malarkey would require you to add edible food and keep it cooking, which just sounds expensive on every level.

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[-] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Perpetual stew of temporary blindness!

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