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"...carefully selected meats, herbs & spices are gently simmered into a concentrated litttle pot".

Ingredients - ".......Chicken fat 1.8%.......!.

Convinced??

Quote from: tim on January 23, 2009, 16:00:02
"...carefully selected meats, herbs & spices are gently simmered into a concentrated litttle pot".

Ingredients - ".......Chicken fat 1.8%.......!.

Convinced??

Nah..........my favourite remains Kallo 'Just Boullion' stock cubes if I haven't got fresh....they are getting harder to find now as most stores only do their bottled (naturally much more expensive) versions, but I did do a special trip to Morrisons to get a load before Christmas!

I can expand on that Tim, courtesy of Ocado...

'Water, Salt, Vegetable Fats and Oils, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Vegetables in varying proportions [Carrots, Leek, Onion], Chicken Fat (1.8%), Flavourings (contains Mustard), Thickeners (Xanthan Gum, Locust Bean Gum), Garlic, Pepper, Parsley, Chicken Powder (0.25%), Colour (Burnt Sugar Caramel), Maltodextrin, Rosemary Extract.'

The Knorr cubes...
'Salt, Potato Starch, Vegetable Oil, Yeast Extract, Chicken Fat (3%), Chicken Powder (1.5%), Spices (Tumeric, Pepper, Celery Seed), Flavourings, Onions, Herbs (Parsley, Tarragon), Citric Acid, Caramelised Sugar, Maltodextrin, Spice extracts (contains celery).'


What on earth his chicken powder  ???

Vaporised chickens? :-\

There is a brief description of chicken powder here.
http://www.ecvv.com/product/vp1660818/Chicken-Powder.html

Barnie - yes. I only extracted the iffy bit!

Deb - like this?
"Concentrated juice from chicken bones and meat (35%), Maltodextrin, Glucose syrup, Chicken fat (9%), Natural flavourings, Salt, Lactose, Yeast extract, Vegetable concentrate (carrot, onion), Rice starch, Garlic powder".

Now that's REALLY REAL!!

just bought a 14ltr stock pot

can't beat making your own eh!

 
To Deb P there still on sale in Sainsburys at the moment.  If you get stuck e mail me your address and I'll send you some.
  I can't visualise 14 ltrs.  How you going to lift it of the cooker Wilko
                                                       

I read this as 'Knorr Chicken Stockport' and was intrigued at the connection  ;D

Quote from: Baccy Man on January 23, 2009, 18:28:06
There is a brief description of chicken powder here.
http://www.ecvv.com/product/vp1660818/Chicken-Powder.html

I'm guessing that's translated from Chinese....... ;D ;D

Quote from: Baccy Man on January 23, 2009, 18:28:06
There is a brief description of chicken powder here.
http://www.ecvv.com/product/vp1660818/Chicken-Powder.html

Scarily industrial sounding...

I starting using Kallo organic chicken stock a while ago. I feel happier using them.

Ingredients:~
natural flavouring. Sea salt,yeast extract, corn starch, vegetable fat, chicken fat 6%, chicken meat 5%, onion, caramalised sugar, celery, turmeric, herbs (parsley,rosemary and thyme), garlic,

Duke

Quote from: Duke Ellington on January 26, 2009, 16:59:13
Ingredients:~
natural flavouring. Sea salt,yeast extract, corn starch, vegetable fat, chicken fat 6%, chicken meat 5%, onion, caramalised sugar, celery, turmeric, herbs (parsley,rosemary and thyme), garlic,
Duke

'sea salt'?? come on folks!! salt is.......NaCl...  anything else added are impurities and should be reported if not listed on the packaging, thus; 'sea salt is the same as any other salt, apart from the jolly picture of the sea on the packet !!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

If you look at the packets of cooking salt in shops Tonybloke, you will find that apart from sodium chloride, there is an 'anti-caking agent' aka sodium hexacyanoferrate II.

I'll stick with sea salt where the only ingredient is sodium chloride ;D

valmarg

I was using Knorr Stock Pots and pleased with them.  I also have Just Boillion stock cubes.  What do you all recommend I use if I don't have chicken bones to boil up for stock?  any advice would be appreciated. 

Well, you could buy a pack of chicken wings from your supermarket.  Put the wings in a pot, cover with water, sprinkle with salt and place over a lowish heat.  When the scum starts to form on the water, skim off.  After a while add bay leaves. After that add vegetables, ie onions, celery, leeks carrots, parsnips, shallots (anything you have that will enhance the flavour of the stock).

Simmer on a very low light until the vegetables are cooked.  Tip the stock and veg into a colander lined with muslin.

Hey presto - chicken stock.

valmarg

Valmarg I like your idea because chicken wings are so cheap :D

If you have a pressure cooker stock can be made in it very quickly (around 10 mins with a cooked carcass.)

Break up the carcass~place in the cooker along with any pieces of chicken meat. Add one sliced onion, carrot, celery 2 bay leaves add some pepper corns add 2 pints of water. Bring to the boil, remove scum.
Close the lid of your pressure cooker bring to pressure and cook for 10 mins
Strain skim off the fat adjust seasoning.
If freezing you can add half the amount of water and just add more when you use it for cooking. (it saves space in your freezer)

Duke

I've started making stock with a slow cooker because it's very hard to get a simmer on gas in a kitchen when the cooker's near an outside door. Comes out nice and clear.

We keep a good supply of stock in 1 pint containers in the freezer, regularly making the stock when we have a carcass.  I never use bought stock or cubes.

I always use our largest saucepan, from which we get about 4 pints a time of good strong stock.  But looking on Amazon at stockpots - about half of them give the measurements in cms.  What use is that, when they don't say how tall the pot is?  At least the other half give the capacity as well.

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Chicken wings? Yes - but don't discard afterwards - in your fingers!!