what makes soup a soup?
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I am now imagining Bubba with a Chef's hat creating a Salty Survivor Stew in The Basement.
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A soup is a liquid food, comprising of vegetables and meat, combined with stock, milk or water. Basically, food is cooked to buggery within the liquid, where all the flavour is extracted.
By the way, soups made with bone marrow are especially healthy, woth a vast array of minerals, some vitamins, collagen, omega-3 fatty acids and improves memory. Worth trying!
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Soup is a liquid dish, made by heating meat, fish, or vegetables in a stock, mainly by simmering.
For this reason, it is true that cereal is not soup.
I recommend chicken noodle soup.
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FYI cold soup is a thing, soup doesn’t have to be heated. For example, this recipe for cold cucumber soup.
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You are correct in that case, So I imagine it would be a:
Mixture of vegetables, or meat in a liquid dish.
I think the one main definition is a Meat or vegetable served in a liquid.
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Having a broth as the main focus of the meal.
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It may be worth referencing the Soup Alignment Chart
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Chicken noodle soup is my favorite.
It literally used to be my forum name
However, I thank you for this source.
I would like to comment, though, one cant have a steak with a spoon. The "texture rebels" can not be soup.
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Its a spectrum depending on the liquid to food ratio, think pH but not log base 10
Soup is on one end of the spectrum which means its more of a liquid food with a higher broth to food ratio then something like stew which has a higher food to broth ratio
Cereal with a ton of milk is soup but a full bowl of cereal with just a splash of milk is stew
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A reasonable benchmark. One worth noting.
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I believe, counter to your claim, cereal is not soup. The way a soup interacts is very different from cereal. A soup requires broth. Water, is not soup. A liquid alone is not the benchmark for soup. Broth, as @MrCalac123 mentioned, is the main definition for a soup.
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It might be worth noting the Cold Cucumber Soup Recipe I posted above doesn’t include broth.
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I would argue that the yogurt is taking the form of cream in the broth of the soup.
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But the ocean is soup based on its ratio of salted water to meats and vegetables
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I agree yogurt is taking the place of cream or milk here, but those aren’t broth either. I believe broth is specifically when you simmer something in water to imbue it with that flavor, so Milk and cream and yogurt aren’t broth.
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I would argue conversly - As the meats and vegetables are still alive, one can not refer to it as a dish, for the same reasons one can not eat a live pig so you can have bacon
I believe you are mistaking this for stock, which does require a simmer, conversly, in order to form a yogurt culture for the soup, milk must be heated, and mixed with two cultures, Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. The warm milk creates a nice arrangement for the bacterial culture to grow, thickening the milk to yogurt.
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Yummy.
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I never said the soup was finished its still heating up
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This would be most definatly true, however, it has been shown by this argument that the water does not need heat specificaly, all that would be required was all marine life to be eliminated, and the oceans changed to meet the regulations for food set forth by the FDA or any governmental regulation
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Generally though a soup is cooked but the specific serving temperature of a soup varies meaning since the ocean isn't cooked yet its still in the process of becoming soup
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This is true.
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