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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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[–] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 4 points 17 minutes 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.

Seems like a way to get into a Chubbyemu video... πŸ€”

(Its a channel about people going to the ER because of stupid things like food poisoning, overdose on medicine, etc...)

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What does the FDA say about this?

Add worms and inject soup in brain.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

Yeah but if the fire goes out or gets too low then it'll drop into the danger zone

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don't understand this reference.

[–] atlas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 57 minutes ago

where it was often necessary to render unruly guests blind.

(emphasis mine)

Blind?!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Post links, not screenshots

[–] zagaberoo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago

(it's an edit)

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Only should be really careful about lentils, peas, anything that sticks to the bottom.

Cabbage is good. Beef is good. Potatoes are good. Carrots - make it go bad a bit faster when not on fire. Same with peas. And of course with onions it'll go bad very fast.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Carrots - make it go bad a bit faster when not on fire.

Don't really know why carrots would make it go bad faster, but the point of a perpetual stew is to never stop cooking it. The fire is always on.

It's the sugars in those vegetables. It turns the pot into a bacterial growth medium. Given enough time, something is going to survive that environment. Maybe it'll be probiotic, but most likely, it won't.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Sugar in them, I think.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I followed you until the end. I know near nothing about onions other than their taste and a few cooking techniques. Is there something in them that cause other items around them to go bad quickly?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

I don't know, it's just experience. Especially onions.

[–] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

At what point does a soup become a stew?

[–] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Incidentally, would a bowl of cereal be considered soup?

Yes, but only for the mere moments before it becomes porridge.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And when does cereal become a stew

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

When it's Frosted Mini Wheats.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

And when does a stew become a pottage?

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think the pedantry was unnecessary. Nobody thinks you’re drinking a chunk of potato or carrot.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

asap disagrees and commented that chunky soup is a stew.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 172 points 19 hours ago (25 children)
[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

no, this is my mother's soup

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago

Sisyphus hoped there was one waiting down the slope

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago

Best way to avoid cleaning the pot!

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