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TIL About Perpetual Stew (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 17 hours 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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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 37 minutes ago

What does the FDA say about this?

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 37 minutes ago

Post links, not screenshots

[-] zagaberoo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 minutes ago

(it's an edit)

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

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 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Sugar in them, I think.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 9 hours ago

At what point does a soup become a stew?

[-] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 45 minutes ago

Incidentally, would a bowl of cereal be considered soup?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

And when does a stew become a pottage?

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours 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 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 160 points 16 hours ago
[-] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

no, this is my mother's soup

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

Sisyphus hoped there was one waiting down the slope

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

🎶 this is the soup that never ends

It just goes on and on my friends ….

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

If they boiled a human alive 2000 years ago and then kept dumping out half and filling it back up with broth, veggies and beef every day, would you eat it today?

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 13 points 13 hours ago

There's barely any person left in it these days

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Potatoe and baby soup, not just filling, but nutritious!

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 55 minutes ago

I’ve got a Modest Proposal for you.

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 34 points 15 hours ago

Best way to avoid cleaning the pot!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] mdd@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours 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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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 28 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago

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

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[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago

One minor cultural artifact of this general idea:

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

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in the pot, nine days old!

[-] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago

Was it good though?

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[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

The perpetual blinding stew

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