• @Mac@mander.xyz
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    12 days 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 🌈⭐

  • DreamButt
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    2812 days 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

  • @Goretantath@lemm.ee
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    1712 days 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
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      812 days 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.

      • astrsk
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        212 days ago

        It will still boil and the difference is single digit minutes at most.

  • @rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1512 days 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.

  • JackGreenEarth
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    1312 days ago

    Like ‘You can’t eat your cake and have it, too’ became a less sensible version.

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    712 days 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.

  • @frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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    612 days ago

    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.