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.
"A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.
Submitted 16 hours ago by rainrain@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Mac@mander.xyz 12 hours 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.
The more you know ✨
Goretantath@lemm.ee 10 hours 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 8 hours 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.
tdawg@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
But have you tried not? 🧐
Goretantath@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Rather kill off anything that takes that high enough of heat than risk it.
seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 7 hours ago
Why? Is it bad or smth?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
This is why you can’t boil the ocean. It’s so big someone somewhere is always looking at it.
Zorque@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Global warming: Hold my CO2…
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 6 hours 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.
rainrain@sh.itjust.works 16 hours 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 13 hours ago
Irony is eating the world.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
What is it supposed to say?
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
A watched pot always boils?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
Like ‘You can’t eat your cake and have it, too’ became a less sensible version.
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.