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TIL About Perpetual Stew
(en.wikipedia.org)
The Soup of Theseus
Does this mean that they started the first batch thousands of years ago with Theseus in it?
Them's good eatin'. Add some broth, a potato... baby, you got a stew going.
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🎶 this is the soup that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends ….
this comment goes hard, mind if i screenshot
no, this is my mother's soup
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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:
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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.
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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.
Also (according to friends who've worked in restaurants), the difference is demi-glace. And butter.
Homemade chilli is almost always better after the first day.
Ah, but what about a perpetual 1 day blinding stew?
I don't understand this reference.
pretty positive it's this:
where it was often necessary to render unruly guests blind.
(emphasis mine)
Blind?!
Peeps really pushed the limits of unruly back in yore.
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Best way to avoid cleaning the pot!
What does the FDA say about this?
Add worms and inject soup in brain.
If it's kept at a steady temperature above 140F it should be fine.
Some guy falls asleep overnight and suddenly the whole inn is dead from botulism
Restaurants already do plenty of things which require cooking overnight, though.
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Made one during the pandemic lockdown. Lasted about a month before I got tired of soup.
Was it good though?
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!
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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Just don't scrape the pot too hard when stirring it.
Look my iron deficiency isn't going to fix itself...
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At what point does a soup become a stew?
Incidentally, would a bowl of cereal be considered soup?
Yes, but only for the mere moments before it becomes porridge.
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A popular version of this in the Americas was sofky/sofke/sofkee/sofkey using cornmeal as a base ingredient: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/sofkee-sofkey-sour-corn
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.
The constant heat and the constant turnover of food/water keep it food-safe
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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