How old would a carrot have to be for you to reject it for soup?

[mrsjavierbardem]

Nigel Slater says, your soup is as good as your ingredients....
But my m and sis use more aged vegetables than I do and they laugh at me!

If I had doubts I'd taste it - if it tastes odd, it's not going to help your soup.

I would go by feel, if it's soft and bendy, it's not going in. Often peeling it helps you get an idea of how soup-able it is.

I detest throwing veg out so much, as long as it has not gone squidgy or mouldy I would soup it

Its not so much the age of the carrot - it's the amount of fur growing on it that matters.

Soup is a great way to use up carrots that have gone a bit old and bendy. If it's too bendy to peel - just wash it and chuck it in with the peel on.

I thought the whole point of soup was to use up your manky veg, woops .

As long as it's not actually rotting it goes in, although even then i would cut off the rotten bit and salvage as much as possible

What Frontier said.

I throw carrots away when they start to go squishy. Agree with sinning that for me the whole point in soup is to use up unused veg!

if they are slimey they are rejected, bendy and shrivelly is fine they call it vintage at masterched

love this thread, thanks,
I used two org carrots, quite bendy and added the rest of the veg in the fridge, celery, leeks, potatoes it was unbeLIEVably delicious, I think it's the Kallo chicken stock though...

Growing whiskers