To be incensed by Knorr Stock Pots?

[NairyHipples]

The amount of packaging (plastic, foil and paper) is shocking. It costs very little to boil some bones up with some old carrots and onions to make your own stock, so why do people buy them?
www.knorr.co.uk/Products/Knorr-Stock-Pots.aspx

[NairyHipples]

Pancakeflipper I use stock cubes too! It's just I prefer to make my own if I've got any bones from the Sunday roast. Never make my own vegetable stock though, it's foul

[ChestnutsRoastingonaWitchesTit]

The beef ones are amazing! Really rich and tasty

[fuzzysnout]

'old bones' 'incensed' ....
Are you ruddy faced cook Mrs Patmore from Downton Abbey OP?

[prettybird]

I like the bottles of Knorr stock - can use how much or how little I want and not be faffed with the packaging (and cost ) of the Stock Pots.

I also make chicken stock myself every time I have a roast chicken - but we make chicken noodle soup every week (ds' new favourite and a nice easy and cheap option for the night he's out at rugby training) and I don't have roast chicken on a weekly basis

[NairyHipples]

No fuzzy but I might be Clarissa Dickson Wright

[gotthemoononastick]

Love them....AND...Marco Pierre says I must use them!!!

[SoleSource]

Knorr stock pots are £1 per pack. Four pots in each pack. Co - Op supermarket. I have chicken flavour :)

[StiffyByng]

We make stock when we have the chance, but we don't end up with bones often, so we need extra stock, and the stock pots are decent quality.

Christmas Day/special gravies are made from scratch, with giblets etc., and we spend hours over them.

[Woozley]

I thought there were 6 or 8 in the pack actually.

[valiumredhead]

They are SO much nicer than Bouillon powder stuff - blerk.

And they are cheap as they are on offer a lot in Tesco so a quid for 6 or 8 pots is not bad at all.

I often make my owns stock and gravy etc but they are very handy.

so basically you are talking bollocks

[SoleSource]

Yeah Woozley therer are 6 or 8 in packs of stock, sorry
The gravy knorr pots are 4

[Trills]

Some packs have 4, some have 8.

[JenaiMathis]

I've not tried them. I assume the difference between them and cubes or powders is the gelatine (or whatever it is) that you get from proper bony stock you make yourself?

fwiw I think most homemade stock is a bit rubbish. Chicken is fine, but dark stocks? Does anyone actually do that? Roasting bones and onion skins? It utterly reeks.

I used to like the non-organic Kallo but nobody seems the stock (arf) it anymore. The Organic is OK but the other stuff was better.

[JenaiMathis]

Knorr Pot au Feu cubes brought home from France are good. Salty, but good. IMO.

[Oblomov]

I find them generally too salty and have ended up buying a pot of stock from sainsburys.

[Dogsmom]

I don't think the packaging is excessive, or am I thinking of the wrong thing?

I thought they were a couple of little pots with foil peel off lids wrapped in a sleeve of cardboard? I don't see how they could lessen it really, surely it's all recyclable too?

[FivesAndNorks]

Who has old bones lying around just when you need them?
Aha, here's those bones from that chicken we had 2 weeks ago, so glad I never got round to clearing them up.

[JenaiMathis]

Fives (not that I ever do) but you can freeze bones if you don't want to make stock with them there and then, or make the stock and freeze that.

You can also get them from butchers. Our local Morissons sell them for pennies (you used to e able to get them for free iirc).

[NairyHipples]

StiffyByng Christmas day gravy is the best! Giblet stock, meat juices, port and redcurrant jelly. Takes forever but it is so worth it. Dog loves it too, as she gets to eat the giblets afterward

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

I don't keep the bones lying around, just do the stock the same evening after dinner and freeze it. I only do chicken though.

[NairyHipples]

FivesAndNorks Who has old bones lying around just when you need them?

I do, I save them

[JenaiMathis]

Nairy you minger

What about beef stock? Do you make that?

[FivesAndNorks]

I have entered a strange new world inhabited by people who actually cook.

I had no idea gravy wasn't as a rule made from granules until I was an adult.

[GrimmaTheNome]

Our local farm shop (which is mainly a butchery) gives away big bags of bones 'for stock or dogs'. I get them and freeze them for the dog - simply not convinced that stock makes such a difference to most dishes. If its got meat in anyway, how much difference does meat stock really make? If you want celery or onion taste put some in.

Of course there's a few things like French Onion soup which need proper stock, I can't imagine using stock cubes for that being anything other than horrid.

[NotQuintAtAllOhNo]

Well, it is not like you can smoke it.

And neither will you be able to put it alight, for a nice scent.

fnaaarrrr "incensed"