I generally agree with making stock in a tall pot in which everything can be submerged and using some of that stock to make a soup in a smaller pan, like a saucepan. When you strain the stock you will need to clean out the pan anyway. So why not start the next phase with the pan best suited to the task at hand. I never sweat mirepoix in the stockpot. I suppose I could, but I like the added richness of a bunch of roasted vegetable trimmings.
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Well, sure. If you’re just assembling a soup, any pot capacious enough to hold it all is just fine.
However, there’s always an implied theme in these threads of using just one pot. If I’m going to roll that way, I’ll still go with something taller. FWIW, I wouldn’t be roasting ingredients in a 5"-tall pot anyway. Why wouldn’t one want a pot that excels at stock and soup?
I just cannot envision making soup in a pot already full of stock, carcasses, spent vegetables, bouquet garni, bay leaves, peppercorns, etc.
As you said, whatever is spent or unwanted gets discarded before the soup is assembled.
Is using one pot twice really one pot cooking?
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I use mine to make Chicken Stock and it is very Clear.
My folks have done the same for many Years with no “cloudy” results.
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Soups generally don’t require a long simmer. Only the stock. They are indeed, assembled, of ingredients that are cooked separately (in a manner more suitable to each ingredient), and usually just heated through enough to allow some cross-pollination of flavors. And that’s it.
Throwing a bunch of stuff in a pot is neither stock, nor soup, well-made.
And you certainly don’t need a pressure cooker.
A soup shouldn’t be on heat long enough for evaporation to even begin to be an issue.
Most people cook soup until it’s not much more than homogenous pap.
Well, Charlie, many people tend to assemble soups from “stock” they make–right then–as part of the soup-making process. If that’s the method, there’s a benefit to a high-walled pot. And if you’re looking to buy one pot, something on the order of a 1:1 geometry would be a solid choice.
Ok, ok. I’ll get up and make some stock. Tomorrow I’ll make tortilla soup from it.
