Many people believe that soups are easy and simple. However, here are 17 interesting facts and tips that you should know:
- The term “soup” originates in Sanskrit and actually means “Good Nutrition.”
- Groucho Marx explained the title of the 1933 movie “Duck Soup” by stating, “Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you’ll duck soup the rest of your life.”
- If you are on a diet, eating soup is one of the best things to eat because it fills you up. To reduce or remove the excess fat from your soup, you can use a lettuce leaf as a filter. It is low-calorie and keeps you full so that your diet can stay on track.
- Campbell’s Soup labels were originally orange and blue but they were change by Herberton L. Williams because he liked the Cornell University football uniforms that were white and red.
- Soup contains minerals that stimulate digestion. So, soups can help you lose weight and digest food faster!
- Soups are one of the top sources of mineral substances, nutrients, and help you stay hydrated.
- Soups are not always hot, cold soups are great too! If you haven’t tried one, you need to.
- Chicken and Vegetable bases are the most common, but fish broth can be a healthier option.
- Americans consume more than 10 billion bowls of soup per year.
- Soups get better the less they are cooked. A homemade soup feeding 3-5 people will always come out better than a 7-10 person batch.
- You want to make sure that you use porcelain, stone, or enamel, crockery—not anything metallic. This will ensure that you will not get a metal flavor in the soup and it also affects the way the soup heats up.
- As your soup is cooking, you want to make sure that you do not want to add or drain any liquid because it affects the taste and flavor of the soup. You need to make sure that you plan out how much water you need in the beginning, and factor in how much will boil away during cooking.
- A Woman is two times more likely to order a soup than a man.
- Everything needs to be washed, cleaned, and dried before you put anything into the soup. Most people believe that the dirt and chemicals will be cleaned away through the cooking process, which isn’t accurate.
- All extra spices and flavors should be added during the last 4-6 minutes of cooking. This will allow the flavors to be at their highest and provide the most flavor.
- Once the soup is done cooking, do not serve it immediately. You want to let the soup continue to sit and absorb the flavors for another 8 to 20 minutes.
- Boullion and consumme are two different things. Boullion is like a broth, but consommé is more of a gelatin; when it cools it becomes gel-like.
