How do you serve your soup? Do you ladle it out into soup plates in the kitchen? Do you bring your big stockpot to the table? Or do you have an elegant soup tureen? Soup tureens always seemed very genteel and old-fashioned; they're the sort of thing you get at a wedding and never use.
But we think that now in the heyday of soup parties, tureens are getting a fresh moment! Here are a few of our favorite tureens.
• Click here for full post and gallery: Gallery: Fresh and Beautiful Soup Tureens
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Comments (7)
The pictured ones remind me of toilet bowl brushes. (I confess I didn't look at the linked post.)
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who immediately thought I was looking at toilet utensils. I was sure these were new fancy brushes or plungers.
Beauuutiful, beaaauuutiful, soouup!
I have a New February's resolution! Buy tureen. Use tureen.
Beautiful, too bad my partner doesn't eat soup...
I also immediately thought the ones above were toilet brushes. But even a nicer tureen doesn't seem practical to me. It seems like the soup would cool off too soon, even if you warmed the tureen first. Not to mention the possibilities for catastrophe in carrying a large container of soup of any temperature out of the kitchen. Particularly one with no handles!
"It seems like the soup would cool off too soon, even if you warmed the tureen first. "
You're supposed to warm the tureen the same way that you warm a teapot - with hot water that you dump out before placing the soup/tea.
(Also good for getting any residual dust out of the pot/tureen)
Toilet bowl brush was my first thought. Don't use soup tureens--they won't fit in the dishwasher and I don't need the extra dish to wash.