It's been an exceptional week...

...for soup.
With a noticeable introduction of pepper to the mix, todays soup rates right up there with the best so far.

Out of 11

• Taste: 9.5
• Texture: 8
• Bouquet/Aroma: 8
• Heat - Temp: 9
• Heat - Chilli: 8
• Brownness: 8
• Beef content: 7.5

Dipping choice for today: Cheese and Onion by Seabrooks.
These flavours work quite well together.  In another post I alluded to beef being an obvious choice, however, this only made the whole experience more beefy, where as if you have a dipping choice flavour that's not in the stuff your dipping into, it broadens your taste experience.  The secret is getting things that don't clash.

Days since "the spillage" and I've still not cleaned my keyboard: 26

Souperfood

I was offered the change to have some watercress soup today. Really?
Watercress over Chilli Beef, let's think about this for a minute, break it down to the bare root essence. Just the basic make up of the name sounds fundamentally flawed.

Water & Cress
vs
Chilli & Beef

Only a vegetarian or some wierdo with a child like stomach would take the choice of the Co2 loving, peppery superfood.

Out of 11

• Taste: 9
• Texture: 7
• Bouquet/Aroma: 8
• Heat - Temp: 9
• Heat - Chilli: 7
• Brownness: 7
• Beef content: 6.5

Dipping choice for today: Sea Salt by Seabrooks.
These flavour of crisp actually makes me angry, i mean it's just salt, they all have salt in them. Why not just make potato flavoured crisps for the people with no flavour expectations. I suspect the people who eat saled crisps also have a glass of water with their crisps, for dippng of course. Ala Ned Flanders.

Days since "the spillage" and I've still not cleaned my keyboard: 25

N.B. I actually quite like Watercress.

Schrodinger's soup

We have the soup in it's cauldron.
The observer cannot know whether or not the soup is tasty, and consequently, cannot know whether it is worth buying. Since we cannot know, according to quantum law, the soup is both amazing and awful, in what is called a souperposition™ of states. It is only when we purchase a soup and learn the condition of it's taste that the souperposition™ is lost, and the soup becomes one or the other (amazing or awful). This situation is sometimes called runny food indeterminacy or the customer's paradox: the observation or measurement itself affects an outcome, so that the outcome as such does not exist unless the measurement is made. (That is, there is no single outcome unless it is observed.)

Todays soup is amazing, by the way.

Out of 11

• Taste: 9.5
• Texture: 8
• Bouquet/Aroma: 8
• Heat - Temp: 7
• Heat - Chilli: 6
• Brownness: 8
• Beef content: 7

Dipping choice for today: Sea Salt and vinigar by Seabrooks.

Days since "the spillage" and I've still not cleaned my keyboard: 24

Fridays soup poem

Mondays soup is full of hate,
Tuesdays soup is fair of taste,

Wednesdays soup is full of beef,
Thursdays soup is fit for a chief,

Fridays soup, is always spectacular,
When it arrives, you know that you are,
Halfway through, the last day of the week,
When it's 7am tomorrow, I'll still be asleep.

Out of 11

• Taste: 7
• Texture: 6
• Bouquet/Aroma: 8
• Heat - Temp: 9
• Heat - Chilli: 5
• Brownness: 5.5
• Beef content: 7

Dipping choice for today: Cream Cheese and Chives by Seabrooks.

Days since "the spillage" and I've still not cleaned my keyboard: 21

Primordial Soup

Pretty sure this is a new batch today. I arrived at this conclusion through a variety of routes, allow me to enlighten you:
It smells fresher, it's very runny and the taste is quite weak.

Chilli Beef close up

As the soup boils in the cauldron, it thickens and throughout the week the smell becomes less fresh. It is my assumption that, over time, the smell becomes taste, this is possibly done by wizards in a parallel dimension (the gateway to which is at the back of the soup shop). The beef is dissolved by the constant stirring performed by a team of dedicated workers, who monitor the soup 24/7, stirring, tasting, performing midnight vigils to prey for the gods of flavour and texture to bestow their powers unto the CB.

Out of 11

• Taste: 6
• Texture: 6
• Bouquet/Aroma: 9
• Heat - Temp: 9
• Heat - Chilli: 8
• Brownness: 5.5
• Beef content: 8

Dipping choice for today: Beefy by Seabrooks.
An obvious choice.

Days since "the spillage" and I've still not cleaned my keyboard: 20 - This has now gone past the point of being boring, I'm now starting to become proud of my lack of cleaning achievement.

For more or less 5 moths I've been doing blog.

5 Months, what the hell is wrong with me? (This is a rhetorical question by the way).

Good soup today. Very savoury, full of flavour and the texture is just right.
Seabrooks crisps have a slogan on their packets which reads like this: "Once tasted, Loved forever." Long live the Chilli Beef.

Out of 11

• Taste: 8
• Texture: 8
• Bouquet/Aroma: 7
• Heat - Temp: 9
• Heat - Chilli: 8
• Brownness: 6
• Beef content: 7

Dipping choice for today: Cream cheese & chives by Seabrooks.
I've not commented on the combination of crisps and soup for a while, but this strange mashup seems to work very well. The two ends of the preverbial taste spectrum converge in a very nicely rounded taste. The chives make the soup seem quite, erm, herby i guesse.

Days since "the spillage" and I've still not cleaned my keyboard: 19

..slightly better than average

Back to work after Monday off and the soup couldn't arrive early enough and it was if the powers that be could feel me pain and removed all customers from the soup shop.

The soup supplies seemed slightly low in the CB cauldron, this sometimes affects the beef levels, today is no exception. The soup tastes slightly better than average, which I have to admit, is still very good.

Out of 11

• Taste: 9
• Texture: 8
• Bouquet/Aroma: 7
• Heat - Temp: 9
• Heat - Chilli: 7
• Brownness: 6
• Beef content: 6

Dipping choice for today: Worcester sauce by Wheat crunchies

Days since "the spillage" and I've still not cleaned my keyboard: 18 (I'm getting bored of this now)