If you mean keeping your soup at a boil is bad then sure. But I always bring it to a boil before turning it down to a simmer
"A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by rainrain@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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tdawg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But have you tried not? 🧐
Goretantath@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Rather kill off anything that takes that high enough of heat than risk it.
seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 3 weeks ago
Why? Is it bad or smth?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is why you can’t boil the ocean. It’s so big someone somewhere is always looking at it.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Global warming: Hold my CO2…
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Just increase the temperature until everyone is too busy being dead. Then, you’re free to boil the ocean as much as you like.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Its a thing moms say to keep kids from asking “is it done yet?” since if the kid does something else, time passes faster for them. I put a pot of water on and stared at it just to prove my mom wrong since i was sick of hearing it, but she was saying it because the kitchen was small and i’d get in the way when cooking my food.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
That’s probably why it’s stuck around now that we don’t have wood fired stoves, but lifting a lid to check on a pot really does cause heat loss and makes it take longer to boil.
rainrain@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s one of those memes that got ironically reversed. And then the ironic version got remembered by everybody and the original got forgotten.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Irony is eating the world.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What is it supposed to say?
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A watched pot always boils?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Like ‘You can’t eat your cake and have it, too’ became a less sensible version.
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Depends on the soup. Tinned soup from some manufacturer, maybe. My mum’s chicken soup? Boil that thing gently for hours and your tongue will love you for a week.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t make a lot of soup but I also don’t believe that a soup that was boiled for a brief period of time is necessarily spoiled. In the times that I have made soup, I usually have preferred to see it boil briefly before turning down the heat, and then consuming it shortly after.
Mac@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Not many people know this but this is actually because the boiling point of the pot material is well above the capability of a cooking oven.
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