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Soup Socks, My New Favorite Kitchen Item

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WP_20141105_004I can’t believe I’m writing an entire post about Soup Socks, but here I am. I was going to wait and put together a post like “Five Helpful Kitchen Items You Need To Buy Right Now,” but it’s late and I’m tired and I just want to spread the word to the soup and sauce makers out there.

I make a lot of sauce. At least once a month I make (and freeze) this pizza sauce recipe. It’s really awesome, but it involves putting onion halves and a bunch of basil in with the rest of the ingredients and letting it all cook down for a couple of hours. Then, you remove the onion and basil before serving or storing.

The first time I did this, the onion fell apart and it took me about half an hour to pull all of the pieces out (it a bit of a chunky sauce, so slotted spoons and strainers are no help). The second time I did it I cut the onion differently, and it fell apart less, but it still took me about ten minutes to pull it all out. An annoying extra step for an otherwise easy recipe.

The third time I made it I wrapped the onion and basil in cheesecloth. That should have worked well in theory, but cheesecloth only tends to come in giant pieces which, when cut, release a billion tiny particles of cheesecloth thread into your food.

I started searching for a solution and after a couple of false starts, I finally found one: Soup Socks.

Soup Socks filled with onions and basil

As the name suggests, these were created for making soup. I do make soup sometimes in the winter, but it’s usually the kind where you eat everything that goes into it – I’m not putting in bones and things. But if you do make a lot of stock and soup, you might find these as helpful as I’m finding them for sauce.

The weave is a little bigger than cheesecloth, but it has no problem keeping in things like herbs (in bunches) and veggies. The product description even claims that you can fit an entire chicken in there, and I wouldn’t doubt it.

Soup Socks

After you’ve stuffed what you need to in the open end, you just knot it shut (or use twine). I tend to wrap the end around my pot handle so that I don’t get my hands dirty when taking it out, but you could just as easily submerge it and use tongs or a spoon to get it out.

Technically they’re reusable, but so far I haven’t bothered. I just rip it open, put the food down my disposal, and throw the Soup Sock out. If I were using them more often I might rinse them out and try reusing them, but at this point, I can’t be bothered.

I’m not sure why it took me so long to find this time and aggravation saver, so I want to spread the word!

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