HELP! My soup ended up too hot
By Octav1
@Octav1 (1419)
Romania
November 5, 2012 7:31am CST
Hello everybody,
I like to cook and I usually do great things in the kitchen, but this time I screwed it up.
I made a meatball soup and I wanted it to be a little spicy, so I put some pepper in it.
It seems I put too much or the pepper I cut was way too hot, because the soup is too hot and it can't be eaten.
Please, give me advices, what to do to reduce the peppered taste of the soup?
In a few hours my wife will be home and then I'll make myself a fool.
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4 responses
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
5 Nov 12
Great!
Why haven't you called me to tell you the solution to your problem?
Here's what I know it could save your soup: take off the meatballs, then add two or three potatoes (they must be not sliced, as they will be removed in the end) and boil them for 10-20 minutes. After that remove the potatoes, put the meatballs back in the soup and add some water if needed.
This won't take away all the hot taste, but the soup must be edible.
Why haven't you called me to tell you the solution to your problem?
Here's what I know it could save your soup: take off the meatballs, then add two or three potatoes (they must be not sliced, as they will be removed in the end) and boil them for 10-20 minutes. After that remove the potatoes, put the meatballs back in the soup and add some water if needed.
This won't take away all the hot taste, but the soup must be edible.2 people like this
@Octav1 (1419)
• Romania
6 Nov 12
You, devil!
Lucky me I had read your post before lunch! I put three potatoes in the soup and I boiled them for twenty minutes. Of course, I had taken out all the meatballs before boiling the potatoes.
The result was satisfactory: the hot taste has been reduced. It wasn't eliminated entirely, but the soup became edible.
Thank you for the tip, little devil!
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@allknowing (138207)
• India
6 Nov 12
I hope you remembered to give those potatoes away!
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@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
6 Nov 12
Oh, I forgot to tell you the potatoes were not edible.
I hope you didn't eat them.
I am glad I gave you the answer just in time to "repair" the meatball soup.
I know that boiling potatoes can also reduce the sour taste of the soup. Keep this in mind, in case you make another mistake.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
5 Nov 12
If you have too much pepper or chili in food, there is very little you can do apart from diluting it. Adding cream or milk will help if it is just a little too hot but "way too hot" would indicate that you have FAR too much pepper/chili and the best thing to do would be to start again.
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@Octav1 (1419)
• Romania
6 Nov 12
You know I didn't put too many peppers in it, but I'm afraid the few I put were too hot. I had put hot peppers in soup before, but they were never this hot!
Throwing the soup and saving the meatballs was my first impulse. But I don't think the new soup would have been tasty enough. I hoped anybody will come with a solution.
I did try to put some cream in the soup, but it didn't reduce the hot taste.
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@allknowing (138207)
• India
5 Nov 12
You should put in some more meat balls and some liquid and boil it. It will diffuse the pepper effect.
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@allknowing (138207)
• India
6 Nov 12
Who has asked you to eat all that stuff!
It is important that you like what you eat. Whatever is left over may be you could give it away?
It is important that you like what you eat. Whatever is left over may be you could give it away?
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
5 Nov 12
That happens to me all the time. I dont like spicy. But here in Mexico many do. When something like a soup turns out to hot. i just add alittle flour to it. makes the soup thinker, but takes some of the hot away as well. Happy cooking there.
