What's the difference between soup, stock, stew and broth?

broth is made from flesh, stock is made from bones, stews are generally thicker than soups

some people say a man is made outta mud

a poor man's made outta muscle and blood

muscle and blood and skin and bone

with a mind thats weak and a back thats strong

>broth is made from flesh, stock is made from bones

Correct. Stock is also an ingredient, whereas broth is something that can be consumed as is (and no, "bone broth" is not a real thing; it is a made-up term used to sell people stock at 10X the price).

>stews are generally thicker than soups

It has nothing to do with the thickness, but with the size of the chunks of food in it.

False, just look at the term "Bone Broth" and you will realize how foolish your silly rule looks

>soup

a liquid meal of veg and/or meat

>stock

Meat/veg infused water intended as an ingredient to add to something

>broth

Meat/veg infused water intended to consume as is

>stew

a broth/stock but chunky

>>19190778 (OP)

Stock: Base for sauces or brothes. Basically stuff cooked in water to extract its flavours. Just use thr word fond instead so retards can't bitch about the meat/bones bullshit. 

Broth: Stock that is salted and seasoned and an actual dish. 

Soup: A broth with stuff added.

Stew: A thick soup or ragout.

>>broth

>Meat/veg infused water intended to consume as is

false again , broth can be an ingredament

shut the fuck up gronk

>>19190778 (OP)

soup and stew are meals types.

Bone broth is another name for stock

>Stew: A thick soup or ragout

wut?

You nailed it. Many soups and most stews are broth or stock to which a thickener is added after simmering with protein and/or veg/fruit (tomato and olive are fruit). Thickener may be a portion reserved and blended to puree or potato or flour folded in. Soup or stew are meals and typically broth and stock are ingredients in meals unless you are feeling ill in which instances stock or broth may be more favorably tolerated.

>>19190778 (OP)

you drink soup, eat stew, and use stock/broth as an ingredient.

>>19190778 (OP)

Stocks are unseasoned, they're just an ingredient - a base. They become broths when you add seasoning and more ingredients to it. Broths are in a state that you can reasonably consume in a finished dish whereas stocks are meant to have stuff added to them before you consume them.

The liquid in soups is broth, not stock, even if the liquid was made from bones, because that liquid has been seasoned if the soup was made properly.



Stews are like soups but the liquid is thick. There's a saying "soup is stuff swimming in liquid and stews are stuff coated in liquid."



>broth is made from flesh, stock is made from bones

a common NPC misconception. If this was the case then bone broth wouldn't be a thing, nor would vegetable stock.

>There's a saying "soup is stuff swimming in liquid and stews are stuff coated in liquid."

Also, there are dishes where you can't quite tell if they're soups or stews. It's a continuum, a tasty tasty continuum.

they're actually different things

bone broth is named by retards. Fortunately a couple of those retards are nice enough to make some that work better as cooking stock or cooking stock than all the other bullshit out there with cabbage and whatever the hell else.
