Slow Cooker Soup Should Always Have This Ingredient Cooked Separately

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Slow Cooker Soup Should Always Have This Ingredient Cooked Separately By Rolland Judd Dec. 13, 2025 12:20 pm EST

Using a slow cooker to make a satisfying noodle soup can save you a whole lot of effort compared to making it on the stove, but dumping all your ingredients in at once is a mistake that you'll regret. Cooking time varies for each ingredient in most soup recipes, and in the case of noodles, they can go from an exemplary al dente to a soggy letdown before you know it. While you would do well to add things like potatoes in a slow cooker soup at just the right moment, it turns out you may not want to add the noodles to slow cooker soup until the very end.

The Takeout spoke with Katie Vine, an experienced cook and recipe blogger at Dinners Done Quick , who