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.
That’s clearly a stew and not a soup. I will die on this hill.
It might be a stew when it’s done, served as pictured, I’d call it a soup. Sorry bout it
What’s the difference?
Stews are thicker with big chunks and soup is thinner with small chunks
For me it’s more about solid-to-liquid ratio, soups are often “thick” but still liquidy overall. Stews are cooked down until there’s basically no broth, essentially just a gravy. My personal distinction is that stews can be eaten on a plate, soup can’t be.
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.
It’s just interaction bait.
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!
I have seen variations of the vegetable innvoation in the wild, although you can never tell when things are ironic anymore
What’s worse is they all passed history class. Somehow.
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 gotten “oldman yells from porch” angry when seeing a string of "peak"s and "absolute cinema"s in the comments 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.
“Stomach is thriving”
They don’t even try to form coherent thoughts anymore, just buzzwords to sell your current “brand”.
Just assume this kind of sloppy copy is AI.
The depressing thing is how often it’s not
The depressing thing is how often it works
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!
“That’s why I take twice-daily MORE-O-PHYLL from Malt-O-Meal.”
This is such a snore-gasm.
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 🌈
And now you’re water-based pooping.
what did they use before? sewage?
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
🤦🏼♀️
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.
With just a smack of ham!
lol, this ironically looks like what Americans who’ve never left their county think British food is.
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.
I’m convinced that everyone who starts one of these weird diets and feels better has a random food sensitivity that just happens to get cut out by their diet.
Like, you feel way better on that crazy carnivore diet where you eat only meat, but it’s cause you have undiagnosed celiacs and eating only meat happens to cut out all wheat.
Many people have FODMAP sensitivities and confuse them for gluten.
I’ve thought that because of my celiac tests coming back marginal and all the other issues I have, but I get wounds on my skin that take months to go away and severe anxiety from gluten which I don’t think can be caused be fodmap sensitivity.
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
I CALL it hot ham water
Are “steamed hams” considered water-based cooking?
Vapour based.
So watery! Yet there’s a smack of ham to it.
The ocean is technically a soup
And technically, so are you
What technicality are we playing on here? Anything that contains water is a soup?
I mean humans are like 80% water so
And lettuce is 96% water. Basically every fruit and vegetable is more water than a human is. But you hand me a bowl of lettuce and call it soup we’re gonna have words.
Also humans are more like 60%.
No soup for you
Also needs vegetables and salt.
We’re a collection of soups (see the insides of every cell)
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.
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.
Have you ever cooked pasta?
my favorite part of spaghetti is drinking the spaghetti soup :3
You mean Saturn tea?
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)
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.
It’s like when somebody throws out the white rubbery thing after drinking their mozzarella
It’s called “boiling”.
Yes, boiling is how you make soup.
Yeah ofc, but boiling isn’t always making soup, sometimes it’s just boiling, and what you’re “dumping out” isn’t soup
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.
It’s not new and also nobody calls it “water based cooking” because that’s stupid.
So, it’s still just boiling.
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.
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”
Too many steps, got bored
We usually steam it or bake it with some olive oil, but I still boil it occasionally. I don’t have a steamer for my little pot~
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
Now that’s a proper meal
Surely there is some third way
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.
radiant heat
So some kind of nonconductive heat? How would that even work? I will stick with putting the pot in the fire.
no! water or oil only! no grill!
water based hot salad
were they just frying everything in bacon grease before?
Like a good, patriotic 'MERCAN
vegetables are healthy
