Can a pot make your soup go off??

CarolnMalky

Bizarre question I know, but everytime we make homemade soup in our souppot is it off the next day.No matter what kind we make.I personally reckon the pot is cursed :eek: , hubby being more of a rational being reckons the pot might be turning the soup? Does this happen?
All suggestions gratefuly accepted!
Carol

msmicawber

What's it made out of? I used to have a big cast iron saucepan that I used for soup and stews and it 'tainted' things that were cooked in it. Since I was anaemic, I figured any extra iron would do me good!

Could you not decant the soup into a bowl or jug once it's cooked, then keep it in the fridge?

CarolnMalky

Hi msmicawber, its a stainless steel type pot.Thankfully we had frozen most of the soup(my new lets be organised thing).
Seriously thinking about buying a new pot.Will pop the soup into the fridge in future though.

Queenie

What is it made from?

You should be decanting the soup into a clean container and keeping it in the fridge anyway between usage.

A vegetable based soup can turn in a couple of days but not overnight

CarolnMalky

It was a veggie based soup Queenie...my favourite, leek n tottie.
Gonna start being more sensible and putting it into the fridge, these things never occur to me til someone else points it out.
Thanks

stuart264

I used to be a kitchenware buyer so cookware is somthing I know a fair bit about.If its "proper" stainless steel i.e. 18/8 or 18/10 then its pretty much bombproof about the only thing that will damage stainless in regular use is cooking lots of acid based fruit in it.

If its 18/0 though then it will react, the way to tell is to see if a magnet sticks to the pot, if it does then its the 18/0 "magenetic stainless" and its possible it could corrode its also a good idea not to go on the stamping on the bottom as I caught a couple of factories stamping 18/0 as 18/8 and while its not common practise it does happen.

Addiscomber

I think it is more likely the leaving the soup in the pan that is responsible. As the OP has raised this now, does this mean that soup has been left out overnight recently? Although it has got cooler the last 10 days or so it is still relatively warm indoors overnight. I believe starchy/vegetable based things start to ferment quite quickly.

seraphina

Do you add any dairy products to your soup - you mentioned leek and potato soup, which I usually add cream/milk to.

Whenever I make this it does go off very quickly, no matter where I store it, and needs to be eaten the day it's made.