Soup I’ve been boiling and adding ingredients to for 4 days

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alexslacks@reddit

ZAQ Makes on TikTok has a perpetual stew going 200+ days now: very interesting to follow especially from a culinary standpoint

https://www.tiktok.com/@zaq.projects?_r=1&_t=ZP-91jthm6epCA

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IronshinsIV@reddit

“Every time you buy a Big Mac you set one ingredient aside. Then at the end of the week you have a free Big Mac. And you love it even more because you made it with your own hands.” -Kevin Malone

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Bigdoga1000@reddit

I guess the burnt bun qualified you to post this here

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PrimAndProper69@reddit

You didn't have to say it, but now I am reminded of the dinner table in Resident Evil 7

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real--computer@reddit

That bun isn’t burnt it’s golden brown and toasted

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Bigdoga1000@reddit

Op said it was burnt, so I'm deferring to them

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real--computer@reddit

You right. I should’ve read the post before commenting.

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BaldHenchman01@reddit

Why does the bun look like a curled up beetle?

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zackmophobes@reddit

Infinite soup, a mideval tradition. They would keep a pot on the fire and keep adding stuff to it for years. Let's see how long you can keep it up!

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el_grande_ricardo@reddit

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold. Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.

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HarryJ92@reddit

Perpetual stew!

There's a restaurant in Japan that has had one going since 1945.

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Mr-Clive@reddit (OP)

I wonder why they had to interrupt it…

France had a 300 year old one, interrupted by wwii too

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Repulsive-Office-796@reddit

Lower case Roman numerals threw me for a loop there

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Unable-Finish-5448@reddit

I canNOT stop laughing at lower case Roman numerals. I think I’m actually going to start using that as an insult. 😂😂😂

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perpetualmotionmachi@reddit

I missed those and thought he used the wrong to

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SmartTea1138@reddit

How does the Wii interrupt a boiling pot of soup?

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No-Pound7355@reddit

I read that as Wii like they stopped to play the Nintendo Wii at launch

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hey_im_cool@reddit

Amazing that they had that stew going for so many years. Lifetimes of children, mothers, grandmothers, and they gave it up just to play the Nintendo wii

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OREOSTUFFER@reddit

I can't believe Iwata pissed into the stew 😢

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ponsies@reddit

There’s a somewhat new one on instagram going on in a crockpot

https://www.instagram.com/zaq.makes?igsh=azB4NXpyd2w3aXEx

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psychrolut@reddit

And what happens when there is a storm that takes out electrical power for a few days?

*places crockpot on open flame

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alter-eagle@reddit

A crockpot’s inner pot would totally be able to handle some indirect heat from a fire

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alter-eagle@reddit

Don’t know if intended, but that link includes a direction to your personal IG profile. If you are “Justine R.”, that is.

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SquidWithBatWings@reddit

I've been watching since like day 50. Long live Stewthesus!

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bronwen-noodle@reddit

Every once in a while this guy adds something unhinged like cow placenta

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Eh_C_Slater@reddit

Sounds like they shut it off though, "I'd boil it again"... Not sure this is as safe as perpetual stew.

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InfelicitousRedditor@reddit

It is not(long term), bacteria will build up harmful toxins, even though you kill the bacteria itself in the boiling process, the toxins will remain.

That being said there are some misconceptions about the "perpetual stew" claims out there as well, both historically and contemporary.

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Eh, nice. In Mexico City I had a mole that was four or so years old at the time. I guess it'd be about 12 years old now. They keep adding new mole whenever it gets down to a certain level and the flavor evolves further.

They serve a big dollop of it, with a spoonful of the new stuff in the middle so you can try both. It's cool

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apintandafight@reddit

There is a guy on IG who has been updating his perpetual soup every day for 200 something days now

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AppropriateTouching@reddit

Dont get me started on the food safety issues with this.

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makebelievethegood@reddit

For anybody interested in more perpetual stew content, zaq.makes on instagram has had one going for over 200 days and eats a bowl daily (I am not affiliated at all, just a fan).

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QuirkyCookie6@reddit

I am interested, I tried making some once but it came out tasting pretty acrid so maybe I was doing something wrong.

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fancczf@reddit

Most of the perpetual soups are not actually just the same pot simmering continuously. They are typically drained by the end of the day, kept a small portion, and mixed in with new soup everyday. If you just keep boiling an old soup it will get bitter and wierd because you are over extracting some of the ingredients.

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sideshowmario@reddit

The pizza place I worked at used fresh dough for the deep dish pizzas, but for the thin crust we mixed fresh dough with the leftover uncooked skins from the day before. I guess it was perpetual too

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DeusUrsus@reddit

Pizza skins 🫠

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Rewd_92@reddit

Holy water soup

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NclWill@reddit

the soup of theseus

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happy-to-see-me@reddit

Pretty sure you have to keep it heated nonstop or it'll go bad

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Objective-Rip3008@reddit

You have to heat it nonstop and you also have to eat enough that statistically it almost all gets cycled out and replaced over a reasonable time frame. Idk how reasonable it really is for a personal supply without getting Food sick eventually, in a historical setting it was a communal food thing that would be eaten by enough people that it wouldn't rot

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Bravisimo@reddit

I thought he fucked it up recently and it was a near total loss?

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berealb@reddit

It was a really cool idea till he folded to the commenters and added dried placenta pills

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NotoldyetMaggot@reddit

r/brandnewsentence what the fuck?

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berealb@reddit

Yeah for a while he was adding just sensible ingredients but people kept begging him to add a placenta. It was a joke for a bit but then when he actually did the placenta pills, I stopped watching lol

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True-Molasses-3271@reddit

Dried placenta pills in perpetual stew is the most unsound thing I have read about today.

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canolafly@reddit

Why? It helps postpartum depression, it's fine.

according to bullshit science for women

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MoseBeforeHoes@reddit

Stew Crew checking in

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GrynaiTaip@reddit

I bet there's some specific technique to make it work. OP will get some nasty bacteria in there and die, like that student a few months ago who ate five day old pasta.

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boner_shadow@reddit

A guy in Instagram has been making one for about 200 days now. He has chronicled his additions, mistakes, and flavor daily

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melocotonela@reddit

It's actually debated whether or not this was common or done at all in the middle ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew?wprov=sfla1 (under "historical examples")

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I_ReadTheComments1@reddit

Not long because op strikes me as an idiot

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EmbertheUnusual@reddit

make sure not to put any eggs in it, from what I gather reboiled egg is pretty gross

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_n3ll_@reddit

The key is to keep it boiling. If bacteria get in there boiling won't dispose of their waste iirc

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P8ntba1141@reddit

There is a dude on insta reels that has been keeping a perpetual stew going in a crockpot for like 200 days, worth keeping up with the journey lmao

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UnNumbFool@reddit

I'm personally a fan of the infinity bottle. Where you take the last bits of whiskey bottle and throw it all into a decanter. Same concept but you get drunk instead of fed

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JCas127@reddit

Is that safe to eat?

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HojMcFoj@reddit

If it's not super acidic, super basic, super hot or super cold then anything is safe to eat once. It's what hairbrush after the eating that gets you.

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OkWrongdoer317@reddit

love that idea, might try a similar approach next time i make soup and see what happens

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My_Favourite_Pen@reddit

friendly reminder to be careful with perpetuals fellas. Its a first class ticket to shityourpantsville if you let it get into the danger zone.

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TheS00thSayer@reddit

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disneylovesme@reddit

Sounds like a sick ass gas/electricity bill too

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ejensen29@reddit

It wouldn't be that bad if you're using a crock pot, but i wouldn't use a stove for this, no.

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Relative_Inflation72@reddit

Yeah it's generally discouraged in the UK for sure. We'd have a stockpot boiling for days to make a good jus but it's not great practice to be heating and repeatedly unless you have a blast chiller to cool it quickly. Once it cools to body temperature it can be a breeding ground for shityourpants.

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modest_genius@reddit

If you handle it while hot and then put the lid on and then cool it, then it will keep edible. It's if you keep opening the lid while it is cool it will get contaminated very fast... When brewing beer, and many other things, that is how you keep if from spoiling.

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amglasgow@reddit

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FartCloudintheSky@reddit

My ex did this for a week and almost puked herself to death.

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GiantTinyMan@reddit

Boil it more. Be on safe side. How's it taste.

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CantusAvem@reddit

Well perpetual soup was cooked non stop so bacteria couldn't grow idk if you continue I'd say maybe a week is as far I'd go

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Wyevez@reddit

Day 4 of adding stuff to my soup until Reddit says it's perfect.

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Noseitch@reddit

Were you inspired by zaq.makes ?

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chpbnvic@reddit

There’s an account on instagram that keeps popping up on my feed that has a perpetual stew. He’s on like day 300 or something.

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NeckSpare377@reddit

1000% chance OP is just leaving the soup on the stovetop with the burner off after cooking for 4 days

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School_North@reddit

I've done something similar with a beef stew was delicious I think i went like 4 days

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Llamaaa_scarf@reddit

Boiling and dding ingredients to my soup every day until reddit says chive chef is perfect

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Mr-Clive@reddit (OP)

Your soup will feed many generations to come, chive man is never escaping his purgatory

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Llamaaa_scarf@reddit

True 🤣💀💀💀

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SandNGritCo@reddit

There’s an old UK nursery rhyme about perpetual stew …

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in the pot, nine days old

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Mom_of_zameer@reddit

Stewtheus

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FutureDiarrheagasm@reddit

Is it ready yet?

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Sugar_Kowalczyk@reddit

Baby, you got a stew!

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Puddin-taters@reddit

Any chance it makes you go blind for 1 day? If so I need some for my daughter

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orangentle-@reddit

I’m sorry but bulgogi soba noodle soup sounds fucking abysmal lmao

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OHBHpwr@reddit

Wattana Panich in Bangkok is exactly this but 45 years!

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papayatwentythree@reddit

And a burnt armadillo on the side?

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huskofspades@reddit

I remember a story of the infinite soup if you get a sore throat it's the soup if you get sick it's the soup remember ITS THE SOUP

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loatheandseethe@reddit

the soup

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I_stole_this_phone@reddit

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

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sunnyfulme@reddit

TWO YEARS!

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Cosmonaut_Cockswing@reddit

the soup

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real_hungarian@reddit

punctuation is expensive nowadays

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Different-Fan-4767@reddit

in China, "Century-old brand" is a certificate you have to earn lol, soups never stopped boiling, always adding ingredients daily, for 100years, if you can attract enough customers and don't shut down, you may able to earn it

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