Not even good soup. Real soups use some kind of broth to give a lot of base flavor.
What do you think a broth is?
My brother in christ, what do you think we use to make the broth?
You guys aren’t using ammonia based stocks?
Only for special occasions
Well it could be a stock
what did they use before? sewage?
Alcohol. They were just boiling it.
Is that why they call the unmodified thing “raw sewage”? Is it because it’s used in cooking?
It’s because the bottled sewerage market demands that their product be called “refined sewerage,” or sometimes “sparkling sewerage” if carbonated.
But it can only be called “le fizzy shitz” if it’s from the Shitz region of France.
Probably oil
Yeah my parents have decided oil is the root of all evil and cook everything in water now lol. They love their soggy food.
My brother-in-law considers it frankly offensive that there’s an actual thing called “New England boiled dinner.” My sister and I love it, but he can’t get past the name.
I had to look it up…
A New England boiled dinner is a traditional, one-pot comfort food that originated in the northeastern US. The dish typically includes corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, all boiled together in water to create a broth. Other root vegetables like turnips, rutabagas, or parsnips can be added. The corned beef is cooked until tender, and the root vegetables become so soft they can be cut with a spoon. The dish requires little attention and no extra seasoning
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lol, this ironically looks like what Americans who’ve never left their county think British food is.
With just a smack of ham!
So, in defense of this, the corned beef in question usually has a pretty complex seasoning profile. It’ll have a big packet with peppercorns, cloves, bay leaves, dill, mustard seed, coriander, and a few other things. (Sometimes mace or nutmeg? It varies with the seller.) The “corned” in the name comes from all the spices (it’s “corn” like in peppercorn). And at the table it’s often also served with mustard or Worcestershire sauce, which brings a whole additional suite of spices, as well as pickled beets. So it’s not as flavorless as that description makes it sound. But it’s true that the corned beef does contribute a salty, savory note, especially to the cabbage.
It is legitimately a very mild, comfort food kind of dish. Vindaloo this isn’t. And we like that too! This just fits a different kind of mood.
I guess I just think it’s hilarious how much of an anti-advertisement the name is. Like, it’s so emphatically not going to appear on the menu of any fancy gastropub. Caramelized pear and arugula flatbread with candied walnuts and gorgonzola? Nope. Boiled dinner. Deal with it.
were they just frying everything in bacon grease before?
Like a good, patriotic 'MERCAN
… you cook your veg.?
Got kale? Best cook 'em, cause no way your digestive tract breaking down those cell walls on they own… Just gonna shit out all that untapped iron 'n vitamins
Ya, I don’t mess with kale.
Ah damn, I feel sorry for you, bro
Don’t worry tho you gonna be okay. Some of my best friends don’t mess with Kale. They still living life like everyday. Must be hard fr fr
I know it’s overused but cliches are cliche for a reason, so I love it when people say “So close!” and then make fun of someone for saying some braindead shit.
Also reminds me of some stupid ad I saw for expensive ass chlorophyll powder packets to put in your water. My sibling in christ, eat a fucking salad with spinach if you want chlorophyll.
CHLOROPHYLL? more like BORE-OPHYLL!
This is such a snore-gasm.
“That’s why I take twice-daily MORE-O-PHYLL from Malt-O-Meal.”
My sibling in Christ
Lmfao I’m stealing this expression
I’m honored, truly. I try my best 🥹
Tbh I probably saw someone else say it before and just used it myself.
I’ve seen it as ‘brother in Christ’, but this is proper gender neutral
Yeah that’s what I was going for, I was to lazy to type my “sister/brother in christ” so I figured sibling was the best way to get both women and men along with any enbys.
Happy Pride, people 🌈
It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
The alternative, btw, would be to fry everything in butter or some plant oil, i believe. That’s what they’re opposing.
It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
So… boiled vegetables. That’s still already a thing. Not a particularly good thing (to my tastes), but been a thing for a long time.
We are not talking about a specific food here, but about a way to prepare food. It does not matter what you cook - meat, vegetables, whatever. It’s about cooking it in water instead of sharp oil-based cooking.
And no, it is not new at all.
So, it’s still just boiling.
It’s not new and also nobody calls it “water based cooking” because that’s stupid.
It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.
Then it’s a waste of vitamines.
I mean, I definitely boil things like broccoli or potatoes and drain the water after. Not every meal calls for soup.
Please stop boiling broccoli.
Fry it up, or get yourself a steamer basket.
Blanching it for 60 seconds and then shocking it in ice water is a great middle ground. Then let it dry and sear it in a hot pan with some olive oil and garlic. Add butter if you are feeling naughty.
Too many steps, got bored
Acceptable.
I’m just having flashbacks of squishy broccoli from my childhood. No child should ever have to go through what I did.
The sad, grey, little trees.
My momma used to say “The broccoli is done when it can run through a colander”
Real men cook in motor oil.
Agreed. I always cover myself in motor oil before I flambé my crêpes suzette!!
During the siege of Leningrad they actually did have to resort to cooking in machine oil, among other awful things. Of course they were almost all women, because the men were fighting the war
Making soup and then dumping out the soup seems like a very stupid way to make soup.
Maybe they feel better from not eating all of those simple, delicious calories.
It’s called “boiling”.
Yes, boiling is how you make soup.
Have you ever cooked pasta?
my favorite part of spaghetti is drinking the spaghetti soup :3
You mean Saturn tea?
Considering your username I give you a pass, but still:
There have been many debates about the differentiation between vegetables and fruits. Genetic testing has mostly revealed it to be a human made distinction without any biological basis.
But I think your comment is the first time I see somebody trying to argue that pasta are vegetables.
I did not argue that. I was just pointing out a funny edge case in the previous poster’s argument.
That said, even actual vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, or potatoes are often boiled in water without the intention of making soup.
If you’re throwing out the pasta water, you’re wasting some very good stock to make the sauce you’ll put on said pasta.
I wouldn’t call it stock, but Italians do indeed use pasta water in many of their sauces. Makes sense because it’s basically just starchy water, which helps to bind the sauce.
That said, you generally don’t need more than one or two cups of it, the rest is still thrown out.
Pasta doesn’t lose the majority of its vitamins to its cooking water though. (Mostly because pasta doesn’t have many vitamins to begin with)
It’s like when somebody throws out the white rubbery thing after drinking their mozzarella
Surely there is some third way
no! water or oil only! no grill!
I read in popular science that it might be possible to use a variety of different kinds of gases to carry heat, or perhaps some kind of radiant heat or even radio waves to cook food. But sadly this fantastic technology is still just fiction. I hope I get to see a form of cooking that doesn’t involve immersing food in hot liquid. I wonder what it would taste like.
Somehow, without the aid of nuclear devestation, people have managed to reset to Year 0. Just “rediscovering” shit that already existed as if it’s new tech. And then try to sell it to people.
It’d almost be funny if it didn’t make me so fuckin mad.
Dibs on dehydrated water!
Have you noticed more and more people “blank behind the eyes?” I have. Like a real life ai model.
My eyes are pretty dead but I think its just the hope in me that’s died from having from watching trump come to power in america.
Oh god no, I don’t talk to people in public any more.
I have repeatedly got “oldman yells from porch” angry when I see a string of "peak"s and “absolute cinema” under any form of media which, at best, can only claim it wasn’t trying to sell me something. I won’t get further into that because it’s not productive and probably sounds elitist.
I figured out something absolutely crazy. You can put vegetables into the ground, (you know, the dirty thing outside?) and they will literally just start making more of themselves.
Also, you know all those naked people outside with too much hair and extra legs instead of arms? They’re made of meat!!! It’s true!
It’s just interaction bait.
What’s worse is they all passed history class. Somehow.
This reminds me of when I was doing chi gungs with a YouTube monk, until he started making bizarre claims that I’d never get sick again and my body would magically heal itself. It did not.
water based hot salad
It looks like the post was made by a Cambodian. Pov translates to ‘young brother/sister’ and is commonly used as a term of endearment. So the odd terminology could have been lost in translation. … and that looks like a typical Cambodian soup.
It’s probably not the real caption. It’s likely fake like every other one of the social media memes.
Potagers hate this one weird trick!
The all-dip diet is where it’s at…
I thought this post was a nod to our ancestors who figured out the power of soup-life.
These mother fuckers getting nutrients from hitherto inedible plants and just chillin as all the others got the runs and fever from eating uncooked game with worms n shit
That kinda looks like sinigang, a Filipino sour soup.
Where is the seafood?
I tend toward pork spare ribs, though I’ve done some runs with shrimp.
Okay so now I’m questioning where the line between soup and stew is…
Stew is thicker and chunkier. Generally made by slowly braising a big ole hunk of otherwise inediblely tough meat for a long time in some kinda liquid. Soup is generally thinner with little bits of whatever the fuck you have laying around tossed in to a broth or stock.
Chili is a stew. A bisque or chowder is a soup.
Depends on the bisque or chowder.
I think the best way to describe the difference is just a higher liquid to solid ratio.
How many lentils do you have to put in a lentil soup until it becomes a stew?
Edit: In my mother tongue “thick soup” is an alternative term for stew, even though a rare/regional one.
I think it’s more that a stew is a kind of soup. Bisque is a kind of soup, chowder is a kind of soup.
The real question is how many noodles can you eat it with before you have to start calling it a sauce.
Bolognese “sauce” is actually a stew and you just dump pasta in there. Don’t use spaghetti for it tho, spaghetti are for actual sauces.
Don’t forget the chayote; certain gourds are perfect for stewing!
Viscosity
