The pretentiousness of 'bone broth'

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Flinderskleepers · 01/06/2025 12:09

As peddled by laughable influencers. Gimme a break - you're just drinking beef stock!

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MyUmberSeal · 01/06/2025 12:35

It’s not pretentious at all. Freja chicken bone broth is lush, and tastes totally different to a chicken oxo cube dissolved in water 🥴. I’ll stick with the broth.

jamanbutter · 01/06/2025 12:33

I do make it from time to time as I grew up with it, bone broth with sour dough bread.
Not sure why it would be pretentious.

EBearhug · 01/06/2025 12:31

I was quite surprised that one of my mum's friends didn't boil up chicken carcasses or bones for stock, because we always did and I still do. It's just good household management AFAIK.

GrumpyOldCrone · 01/06/2025 12:24

Bone broth is how my grandparents made do, when food had to be stretched as far as it would go. It’s quite funny to see it called pretentious. I suppose it depends on the context.

Avantiagain · 01/06/2025 12:22

Looking at a recipe it looks how my mum cooked when I was a child. All bones were stewed to get any meat off them.

LeaveALittleNote · 01/06/2025 12:21

It’s cooked for many hours to get the gelatine from the bones. Stock is just cooked long enough for the flavour. There’s a difference between stock and bone broth, so YABU

BlueSlate · 01/06/2025 12:21

There is a difference between bone broth and stock.

Bit silly to mock something just because you don't understand it.

Holly485 · 01/06/2025 12:17

It's really good for your gut I think, I've read about it because I have IBS (not from influencers!). I wouldn't drink it straight but i wouldn't be laughing at people drinking it. It's a type of stock but cooked for longer to get the collagen and gelatine out of the bones.

SummertimeFeelingFine · 01/06/2025 12:14

There is a difference colloquially tbf. But I get what you're saying.

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Flinderskleepers · 01/06/2025 12:12

I'm talking about drinking it btw. (If it has some other culinary uses, that's fair enough but that's not what the influencers use it for!)

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