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

It was an absolute pain during the height of the BSE concerns.

Then I found out that butchers would supply you with bones for the dog if you asked nicely and they knew and trusted you.

lol, it's just so easy to make your own stock that tastes shocking and uses up all your freezer space. Why don't we all do it

Jenai Am beginning to think I am somewhat minging I make beef and lamb stock from old bones too after the dog has finished with them

FunnyInLaJardin lol, it's just so easy to make your own stock that tastes shocking and uses up all your freezer space. Why don't we all do it

Erm, because it doesn't take shocking, saves money, uses up food that might otherwise go to waste, reduces packaging that might go to landfill, you know what you're eating and makes your food taste good? One chicken carcass = approx one litre of stock, so doesn't take up that much room in your freezer.

I do approve of your incensedness. I feel the same about liquid handwash, tinned coconut milk (solid creamed coconut is far superior and less dear) and (not remotely controversially) mineral water.

It's all such a waste of resources, mainly in the transportation.

I should probably eschew Baxters soups in favour of Cup-a-Soup in that case (I won't).

I don't like the knorr jelly cubes, too salty for my taste.
the kallo cubes and marigold powder are nice. occasionally use oxo cubes.

I get bones from the butcher round the corner for nothing. Saves him chucking them. But then I like that kind of faux self-sufficiency.

OP is NBU about the fucking ridiculous overpackaging of certain foods in this country, although I do think we are getting better. Black plastic is my bugbear as it automatically can't be recycled. Can it really not be blue or green or white?

OP YABU about the general stock issue though, obviously.

agree about the packaging, though.
not only on stock cubes. compostable wrapping for most things would be nice (if packaging is neccessary at all).

I keep meaning to write to Waitrose about black plastic trays, but I'm waiting for someone else to do so instead We can recycle most things here, but not that.

BOUILLON
Not Boullion
Definitely not Bullion!

Feel better now

Kallo cubes here btw

Ahhh sod off with yer stock making, you domestically, frugally, super mum esque individual. Am a stock cube user, AND PROUD!

horatia I do that faux self-sufficiency thing too - I get an inordinant amount of pleasure picking blackberries and apples and cadging free bones from the butcher.
Am about black plastic though...can't think of any food products that come in black plastic?

Bouillion made my lips blister the one time I've tried it

I like the dry knorr stock cubes.

I have no desire to boil up old bones whatsoever.

Jenai Hadn't thought about liquid soap

Booo WEEEEE On(silent N) Lady. BooooWEEEOHn.

I am also waiting for someone else to write to waitrose re black plastic!

Boiling bones makes your house smell like a tropical abattoir & makes me wretch.

Booo Eeee Yong (silent ng)

You are so, so unreasonable.

They have no gluten and no celery in them. Do you have any idea how rare thAT IS IN A STOCK CUBE? dO YOU?

(so enraged I have started to randomly capitalise).

If you only use your own stock you either use very little, or spend your whole life boiling bones.

Totally agrees op, I used to get the knorr bottles which were great cause you could vary how much you used now they don't do them

Youseveredhead - after a gap and a special but successful trip to Tesco I noticed yesterday that Sainsbury's had the Knorr chicken stock bottles back in stock :)

Do I need to be stockpiling? Didn't buy as I'd only just started the bottle from Tesco.

If they have discontinued, I will revert to the Knorr stock cubes.

MIL swears by the Kosher chicken stock powder (can't remember the brand but you can get it in the "Foods of the World" aisle in Sainsbury's) - might give it a go.

Barbarian Why are you shouting? My post was about the cost and packaging, not the ingredients!

I was "shouting" because I'd accidentally hit the caps lock key on the computer, then couldn't be bothered to retype.

There was also meant to be a winking face next to it - no idea where that went. Sorry .

I like shouting. If I was bothered about FUCKING CELERY I'd shout too.

Nairy has given the definitive bouillon pronunciation.

No YANBU

Your incensedness has provided an excellent stock discussion.