Canned condensed soup

[Daehawk]

Do you guys ever add that recommended 1 full can of water to your soup when you cook it? I never do. Never have. Im guessing my parents didn't either since I dont . Or maybe I just chose to do it this way. Who knows.

I will add just a 'little' water if its too think . Depends on the brand and type of canned soup. Like cream of chicken I always add about 1/4 a can to make it thinner and easier to eat and seem to get more of. If you count chili then I do the same. Unless Im using the chili for hotdogs. Keep it thick then.

[Jaymann]

I use milk (where applicable), and usually less than the full amount. However, most canned soup I see nowadays comes already mixed.

[Max Peck]

I've always added liquid (water or milk, depending on the type) to condensed soup if I am making it to eat as soup (as opposed to using it as an ingredient in a recipe of some sort). These days, though, I usually buy ready-to-eat soup rather than condensed since the RTE soups are generally much better quality, so there's no reason to add liquid.

[Daehawk]

I only add some milk to tomato soup. Super improves it. Learned that from my father in law. He made THE best tomato juice and soup. Then at the end he'd add milk. Mm mm. His own home grown tomatoes.

[Holman]

C'mon, guys. This kind of post clearly belongs in the Soup forum.

[Holman]

(I add the water. And also additional salt and seasoning, because I always find condensed soup to be really bland.)

[Madmarcus]

I don't think I've ever eaten condensed soup with or without added water or milk. In college I'd occasionally have soup but only the ready to eat kind. I've always preferred sardines and crackers for a shelf stable meal in a pinch.

[Kraken]

I make soup from scratch. Have never had canned soup that I know of. Maybe in childhood.

[Hipolito]

C'mon, guys. This kind of post clearly belongs in the Soup forum.

I wonder if soup is still doing the van life.

[ImLawBoy]

What kind of maniac doesn't add the recommended can of water???

[hepcat]

God, you're so right. I've always thought of it as if it were preparing blow fish for human consumption. I don't wanna die, for Christ's sake!

[$iljanus]

I punch a hole in the top with a K-Bar and chug it down as practice for dining in the post-apocalypse.

[hepcat]

I punch a hole in the top with a K-Bar and chug it down as practice for dining in the post-apocalypse.

....while driving an eighteen wheeler across a suspension bridge in the Amazon, and simultaneously wrestling a half dozen giant anacondas into submission?

That's what I've always liked about you, Sil. You ooze machismo.

[em2nought]

I mostly use condensed soup as an ingredient for other dishes. Sometimes a can of mushroom soup along with some sautéed mushrooms on top of pork chops, a can of tomato in Shipwreck, or a can of cream of celery in my mother's Hamburger Chinese which I all of a sudden find myself extremely hungry for. Did the Shake & Bake, might as well do the Hamburger Chinese next. On the rare occasion I eat condensed soup the way it was intended, it would be tomato soup served along with a grilled cheese sandwich.

[Kraken]

After thinking about it some more, I'm sure I used to eat canned soup when I was a kid. I remember chicken noodle and chicken & stars specifically.

[LordMortis]

After thinking about it some more, I'm sure I used to eat canned soup when I was a kid. I remember chicken noodle and chicken & stars specifically.

Mom did canned soup and grilled cheese a lot when I was very young. I occasionally live that childhood experience. I keep a couple of cans of chicken noodle and cream of mushroom around for that purpose. Only now I eat an entire can (plus water that rinses the can) instead of a small bowl.

Grilled (sometimes meat, sometimes egg, sometimes both, sometimes neither) cheese has become a regular thing for me again since "retirement." Not because of affinity for them but for my affinity for a hot sandwich and a grilled cheese and probably plus something is the easy way to eat a hot sandwich.

[Jaymann]

I add peas to split pea soup and corn to various chowders.

[hepcat]

Is that chowder or chowdah?

[Jaymann]

Is that chowder or chowdah?

It's only chowdah when Ahnold comes to sup.

Edit: I try to make conversation, but he always says, "Can we get to the chowdah?"

[hepcat]

[$iljanus]

I punch a hole in the top with a K-Bar and chug it down as practice for dining in the post-apocalypse.

....while driving an eighteen wheeler across a suspension bridge in the Amazon, and simultaneously wrestling a half dozen giant anacondas into submission?

That's what I've always liked about you, Sil. You ooze machismo.

Awww, shucks. It was really just 3 big anacondas.

[TheMix]

Is that chowder or chowdah?

It's only chowdah when Ahnold comes to sup.

Edit: I try to make conversation, but he always says, "Can we get to the chowdah?"

[Daehawk]

I bet Arnold and Mark Wahlberg pronounce chowder the same.

[Blackhawk]

I punch a hole in the top with a K-Bar and chug it down as practice for dining in the post-apocalypse.

I have done this a time or two. Not by preference (and not with a knife), but when in need of food with near-zero time to make or consume it. Popped the top off, chugged it out of the can. Entire meal was less than a minute.

Not terribly pleasant, but it served a need.

[Unagi]

I punch a hole in the top with a K-Bar and chug it down as practice for dining in the post-apocalypse.

[Carpet_pissr]

Only popped in here to state how disappointed/sad I will be if this topic makes it to more than one page.

[Unagi]

Only popped in here to state how disappointed/sad I will be if this topic makes it to more than one page.

Wait, you only bumped this topic because you hoped it would not get more attention?

[Carpet_pissr]

Only popped in here to state how disappointed/sad I will be if this topic makes it to more than one page.

Wait, you only bumped this topic because you hoped it would not get more attention?

That is correct.

[Carpet_pissr]

Only popped in here to state how disappointed/sad I will be if this topic makes it to more than one page.

Wait, you only bumped this topic because you hoped it would not get more attention?

That is correct.

Sir.

[Unagi]

Well, what I like to do with condensed soup is slowly reduce it down to a dense glaze and serve it with salted crackers.

[Exodor]

When my wife is sick she likes to cook Campbell's Chicken with Rice on the stove top. She'll leave it cooking until it no longer has the consistency of soup but is more a ricey porridge.

It's kinda gross and I'm glad she only does it when she's sick.

[ImLawBoy]

When I have canned soup for myself, it's typically Campbell's Chunky or the Progresso equivalent, in which case no water is added since they're not condensed. When the twins are home from school we'll often do a soup and sandwich lunch, though, that uses Campbell's condensed. That, of course, gets the mandatory additional can of water because I'm not a monster.

(I add the water. And also additional salt and seasoning, because I always find condensed soup to be really bland.)

I think most condensed soups already contain approximately 2000% of your recommended salt intake for a month. Campbell's Chicken Noodle is like a salt lick with noodles and small chicken bits.

[Carpet_pissr]

When I have canned soup for myself, it's typically Campbell's Chunky or the Progresso equivalent, in which case no water is added since they're not condensed. When the twins are home from school we'll often do a soup and sandwich lunch, though, that uses Campbell's condensed. That, of course, gets the mandatory additional can of water because I'm not a monster.

(I add the water. And also additional salt and seasoning, because I always find condensed soup to be really bland.)

I think most condensed soups already contain approximately 2000% of your recommended salt intake for a month. Campbell's Chicken Noodle is like a salt lick with noodles and small chicken bits.

This. People adding salt to condensed soup blows my mind. It has one of the highest concentrations of salt on the grocery store shelf (which is also why you almost always see a low sodium version as well).

[Unagi]

When I have canned soup for myself, it's typically Campbell's Chunky or the Progresso equivalent, in which case no water is added since they're not condensed. When the twins are home from school we'll often do a soup and sandwich lunch, though, that uses Campbell's condensed. That, of course, gets the mandatory additional can of water because I'm not a monster.

(I add the water. And also additional salt and seasoning, because I always find condensed soup to be really bland.)

I think most condensed soups already contain approximately 2000% of your recommended salt intake for a month. Campbell's Chicken Noodle is like a salt lick with noodles and small chicken bits.

This. People adding salt to condensed soup blows my mind. It has one of the highest concentrations of salt on the grocery store shelf (which is also why you almost always see a low sodium version as well).

Yeah. The idea of adding salt is just mind blowing.

That’s why my joke reply was to put the condensed condensed soup paste on a salted cracker.


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[Unagi]

I think most condensed soups already contain approximately 2000% of your recommended salt intake for a month. Campbell's Chicken Noodle is like a salt lick with noodles and small chicken bits.

Yeah, one can is 2225 mg of salt.

98% of the recommended daily allowance. Which is still a ton

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[Jaymann]

There can only be two.