Autumn is upon us, and in addition to being decorative gourd season, it’s also soup season. Though most people prefer their soup homemade, there’s something to be said for the simplicity of the noble canned soup. And, beyond that, there’s something to be said for condensed soup—which isn’t quite as mindlessly easy to prepare as regular canned soup because you need to add water—but it is a more versatile product. But what is condensed soup? Here are all the answers you need, condensed into one easy article.
Condensed soup is essentially soup boiled down to a thick stock, with most of the volume of water removed. If you took a can of regular soup and boiled it down to half the volume, you’d get the same thickness as condensed soup.
What is condensed soup?
Condensed soup is essentially soup boiled down to a thick stock, with the bulk of the volume of water removed. According to the Campbell’s soup website (and who’s a better authority on soup than them?), if you took a can of regular soup and boiled it down to half the volume, you’d get the same thickness as condensed soup. So the math works out to “1 can of condensed soup prepared = 2 cans of regular soup.” Typically, to prepare condensed soup you need to add water. Or have some thick toast ready to spread that soupy goo onto…that actually sounds pretty good!
What does condensed soup mean?
Condensed soup means that the soup has been boiled down, or “condensed,” into a thick, cream-like stock.
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