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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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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 46 minutes ago

My favourite soup is the garbage disposal soup. Throw all your food scraps into the freezer and at the end of the week boil it in a soup/stock.

This hunters malarkey would require you to add edible food and keep it cooking, which just sounds expensive on every level.

[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Perpetual stew of temporary blindness!

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

No no, that's the perpetual mash of temporary blindness.

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

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

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

This sounds vaguely like a joke from a book I read as a child...

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour 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.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 80 points 4 hours ago (4 children)
[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

🎶 this is the soup that never ends

It just goes on and on my friends ….

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

There's barely any person left in it these days

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

this comment goes hard, mind if i screenshot

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Don't do it, that would get you banned from the internet!

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

you can neither stop me nor even tell if i’ve done it 😼

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What's doing on here? I came because I sensed a disturbance in the Web

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 hours ago

puts hands over suspiciously screenshot shaped tummy

…nothing 👀

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why would someone downvote this person? I guess there's people who are mean for no good reason everywhere…

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

yep i made the mistake of conversing with the wrong person in a politics thread and now i’m watching them go through my profile and systematically downvote everything latest to earliest 😅 you would think we are all grown adults on here but many such cases

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

How much recently did this happened? I feel like I've already seen you before saying this…

Well, I guess that now you got a follower!

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

about an hour ago 😂 it’s certainly not the first, probably not the last time

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Cheers, I got downvoted today, too. Case of mistaken sarcasm I hope. I need to learn to /s

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 8 points 4 hours ago

I love that lol.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

Best way to avoid cleaning the pot!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I solve this issue by making my perpetual stew in the crater of a tiny extinct volcano.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

They usually use fire, so less a weaker flame no?, also, just scrape it everytime problem solved

[–] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 20 points 4 hours ago

Was it good though?

[–] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

My husband and I had one going for a little over a week before the lockdowns as well. I just kinda lost interest in it.

Kudos to your dedication!

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago

One minor cultural artifact of this general idea:

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

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So we're germs like an issue with this? Or was it okay because it was always kept heated? I mean, obviously they theu didn't know about germs in the middle ages, but they still woulda been there.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I sure the occasional person was unlucky and got a bowl that wasn't cooked enough. There's also a big difference between adding more to an 80% full pot vs a 20% full one for ingredient turnover.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 hours ago

The constant heat and the constant turnover of food/water keep it food-safe

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

I would unironically love it if a restaurant had this

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

I'm pretty sure Than Brothers (Seattle famous Thai location) did this with their stock broth.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

A little soup store in Illinois called journeys end did something like this. (Long gone, a Walgreens got it)

They'd have pots of soup that would kinda morph into the next one. It was pure comfort food and their sandwiches were dope. RIP.

But it was popular. I think more places should do it.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Right? It sounds delicious. Not sure how that would fly with modern health and safety rules, though. The Wikipedia entry says a New York restaurant did one for ~8 months, so it must be possible somehow.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Needs to be kept above 70degC so heating could be costly. Other than that it's safer than refridgeration as that only slows growth whereas keeping it hot prevents any growth at all.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Better: Above 60°C pasteurizes the contents so killing all bacteria.

Technically pasteurization is met by holding the food over a specific temperature for a specific time, so over 63-65°C for 30 minutes, or 100°C for 12 seconds.

Normal pasteurization is very similar to cooking in times and temperature, and so pasteurization cooks both the food, altering texture, appearance and taste, and the bacteria.

UHT means ultra high temperature pasteurisation, which heats, eg, milk well over 100°C for only a couple of seconds and immediately cools it, minimizing the alteration of the milk.

So, by keeping the stew over 70°C, the stew is completely food safe.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 4 hours ago

I saw that, and I also vaguely remember reading that in the past. So I guess it was less TIL and more "today I remembered" lol.

[–] safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch 7 points 5 hours ago

Learned that this was a thing in kingdom come: deliverance :D

[–] Today@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

My dad was a cowboy and they had this cooking in little cabins on the open range.