Perpetual Stew

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He tried using an Asian soup spoon yesterday, only for it to be too massive to be usable, and seemingly already gave up on it for glorious western soul spoon.

Also in general it's more of a perpetual/Fibonnachi soup than a stew because the solid content is extremely low.
 
Tragedy has struck. Got lax on checking the water level since it wasn't really changing the first couple days.
Boiled dry and the extended high temperature turned it all dark brown overnight and kinda weirdly sweet, but not unpleasant.
Refilled the outer pot with fresh water, but I think having to heat it all at once brought the temperature down too much for too long, because it developed a fermented/sour taste the next time I tried it. Which lowkey triggered some atavistic Do Not Eat sense.

So the last third or quarter or so went down the drain.

Otherwise nothing in particular to report.
Probably will not make 12qts in a batch next time.
Half as much would have been eaten before the outer pot boiled dry.
Using much less barley might also be nice.
 
The food safety "danger zone" is 40-140F or 5-60C, so maintaining 160F sounds a bit overkill.

Though if the temperature regulation on your pot isn't great or you're concerned about the temperature dip when you add a bunch of new ingredients, I suppose 160 might be a good target to have some safety buffer.

Set up some sort of automatic stirring system to scrape the bottom of the pot and avoid thermal stratification and you're good to go.
You could get a hot magnetic stir plate they use in chemistry labs.
 
You could get a hot magnetic stir plate they use in chemistry labs.
They usually don't have much available torque, so anything that's not a relatively thin homogeneous substance can give you problems.

You're also not working with a high pressure, high purity, or high hazard system, so it's not like your stirring mechanism needs to be materially isolated. You're replacing taking the lid off the pot and stirring with a spoon, after all.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ho7bbbTLf3U"The existence of sports team rivalries implies there are team allies", it's so retarded it goes back to being brilliant. I didn't go into his "Chaos Garden" show. Sounds like yet another way to poison yourself.
That looks so damn greasy. This "soup" is garbage. He added so much random trash on it, it defeats the purpose of a long time simmer, mellowing sharp ingredients and breaking down protein and colagen
 
The thing about perpetual stews is that I imagine that they weren't that good. Even if you assume that solids were eaten or tossed and it's technically safe to eat, it couldn't have tasted good is if people just throw random shit into it. So let's say you have one guy who has no meat, but only smoked fish, and that gets thrown in with another guy with cabbage.
 
So let's say you have one guy who has no meat, but only smoked fish, and that gets thrown in with another guy with cabbage.
Keep in mind that there's generally a bulk base of beans and grain, cooked to a mush, that provides you with most of the calories and macros.

If someone adds smoked fish to the pot, you're not going to be eating chunks of smoked fish, but the salt and smoke-flavor and animal fat is going to probably improve the overall taste of the split-peas-and-barley or whatever. And cabbage would give you something to chew on with structure/texture.

These don't actually sound like terrible additions.
 
The thing about perpetual stews is that I imagine that they weren't that good. Even if you assume that solids were eaten or tossed and it's technically safe to eat, it couldn't have tasted good is if people just throw random shit into it. So let's say you have one guy who has no meat, but only smoked fish, and that gets thrown in with another guy with cabbage.
in ye olde times, people would take from a perpetual tavern stew and add something to it. So you just know some faggot would take all the meat chunks and dump a shit load of thistle in it. "erm akshully m'lord thistle is edible".
 
He did it. He added Dr Pepper.
I was wondering in the start if he actually mails it to a doctor to see what grows in there. Probably needs to be in a biohazard vat
The thing about perpetual stews is that I imagine that they weren't that good. Even if you assume that solids were eaten or tossed and it's technically safe to eat, it couldn't have tasted good is if people just throw random shit into it. So let's say you have one guy who has no meat, but only smoked fish, and that gets thrown in with another guy with cabbage.
That's pretty obvious. If you want a broth just make a usual stock, but in a society with lack of food, everything goes to use.
I find this guy weirdly wholesome. It's the sort of old fashioned internet autism you just don't see as much these days.
That's why I made the thread. He does an absolutely insane thing, but his drive for it is laudable.
 
Keep in mind that there's generally a bulk base of beans and grain, cooked to a mush, that provides you with most of the calories and macros.

If someone adds smoked fish to the pot, you're not going to be eating chunks of smoked fish, but the salt and smoke-flavor and animal fat is going to probably improve the overall taste of the split-peas-and-barley or whatever. And cabbage would give you something to chew on with structure/texture.

These don't actually sound like terrible additions.
I'm trying to think of clashing flavors and something non-poisonous and stuff that would be available in dark age era Europe.
 
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