I happened to watch an old episode of blue's clues with my daughter. During the episode, Steve asked "What's the differnce between soup and stew, is it the potato?"
Is it just the addition of the potato that makes the differnce, or is it something more?
2006-11-09 04:16:29 · 15 answers · asked by Mama JK 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The line between stew and soup is narrow. Stew ingredients are cut in larger pieces and hold their individual flavours and have a thicker broth, and a stew is more likely to be eaten as a main course than as a starter. Soup would be a starter and tends to have thinner broth. Some soups are pureed therefore smoother as well.
2006-11-09 04:27:34 · answer #1 · answered by Smurfetta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely NOT the potatoes. As there are many stew without potatoes and many soups with potatoes.
Mostly, the ingredients in a stew are in bigger pieces and the liquid is more like a sauce due to the usually longer cooking time. Also, majority of stews entails some sort of meat in it.
Soups can be thin and clear as consumme or thick and chunky as a fish chowder but usually is more runny and have smaller chunks or no chunks at all. Many are straight vegetarian items and have no meat of any kind what so ever.
2006-11-09 04:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by minijumbofly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We serve a vegetable soup with potatoes in it, and also there is potato "soup", so it's not just the potatoes that make a difference. Soups usually have thin broths, but don't necessarily have to have noodles (Campbells tomato soup). Stews are usually thicker and chunky, and many have a tomato base.
2006-11-09 04:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by Cher H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think stew are thicker and soups are thinner with noodles. there is potato soup too but it's more liquid than stew. that is hard to explain to a child. good luck.
2006-11-09 04:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by Ginnykitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soup is usually only purried veg etc, whereas the stew contains meat which would be cut into cubes about 1 inch square.
2006-11-09 04:24:46 · answer #5 · answered by Mags 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A stew is much more chunky in its contents while soups are more liquid than solid schiunks of anything that make up the soup.
2006-11-09 04:20:23 · answer #6 · answered by COACH 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I think it's the thickness of the broth....soups tend to be more watery where as a stew has a thicker broth
2006-11-09 04:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stew is thicker then soup.
2006-11-09 04:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by Car bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stew I think always has meat in it, whereas soup does not.
2006-11-09 04:20:07 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its the thickness that make the difference. it can't be the potatoess cause the have potatoe soup and their added to many kinds of soup
2006-11-09 04:20:57 · answer #10 · answered by golden 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋