• SippyCup@feddit.nl
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      Stew is thicker and chunkier. Generally made by slowly braising a big ole hunk of otherwise inediblely tough meat for a long time in some kinda liquid. Soup is generally thinner with little bits of whatever the fuck you have laying around tossed in to a broth or stock.

      Chili is a stew. A bisque or chowder is a soup.

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        I think it’s more that a stew is a kind of soup. Bisque is a kind of soup, chowder is a kind of soup.

        The real question is how many noodles can you eat it with before you have to start calling it a sauce.

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          6 days ago

          Bolognese “sauce” is actually a stew and you just dump pasta in there. Don’t use spaghetti for it tho, spaghetti are for actual sauces.

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        How many lentils do you have to put in a lentil soup until it becomes a stew?

        Edit: In my mother tongue “thick soup” is an alternative term for stew, even though a rare/regional one.