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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What does the FDA say about this?
Learned that this was a thing in kingdom come: deliverance :D
I honestly went into comments for some “Henry’s come to see us!” memes.
One minor cultural artifact of this general idea:
Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.
Huh? Explain for a non native speaker?
Made one during the pandemic lockdown. Lasted about a month before I got tired of soup.
Just don’t scrape the pot too hard when stirring it.
Look my iron deficiency isn’t going to fix itself…
They usually use fire, so less a weaker flame no?, also, just scrape it everytime problem solved
Perpetual stew of temporary blindness!
At what point does a soup become a stew?
Incidentally, would a bowl of cereal be considered soup?
And when does cereal become a stew
Best way to avoid cleaning the pot!
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.
The perpetual blinding stew
Ah, but what about a perpetual 1 day blinding stew?
Post links, not screenshots
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A popular version of this in the Americas was sofky/sofke/sofkee/sofkey using cornmeal as a base ingredient: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/sofkee-sofkey-sour-corn
