The pretentiousness of 'bone broth'

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

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!)

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

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.

There is a difference between bone broth and stock.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think it’s because the cost of the energy to do that is more expensive than just buying the stock.

The stock cube is named after the process of making stock and designed to mimic that, not the other way round. It's just stock.

I just suck an Oxo cube each morning after brushing my teeth. I find the minty favour of the toothpaste is a very nice combination.

I know that purists will say one should use a Knorr LAMB stock cube with minty toothpaste but I know what I like.

(A small glass of Côtes du Rhônes is nice with an Oxo cube too, in a evening.)

Ha. Had a very bemused conversation with Greek family about this fad a few years ago. One cousin has a restaurant in a swanky village frequented by holidaying slebs.

Someone asked the chef if they could make a bone broth due to their current diet and tried to educate them on how they would need to prepare this extravagant dish. It’s been a simple greek village dish for centuries. We raise our kids on it.

My cousin charged her 3€ and she asked if there had been a mistake.

Family were amused that people often go off menu to ask for special dishes, but this was the first time someone wanted leftovers soup and expected to pay lobster prices for it.

It's pretentious if influencers are peddling it for the collagen and the glowing skin and other miraculous health benefits.

It's not pretentious if you chuck your chicken carcass (or any other bones / shellfish shells) in the slow cooker along with left-over veg, peelings, old herbs etc. A really good stock you can have on it's own (or with a few bitsand pieces to make chicken noodle soup), 2nd boiling you keep in the freezer and make soup. Buy ham bones from the butcher to make lentil and tomato soup or pea and ham.

OK, it is probably pretentious to post online about roasting prawn shells and heads adding tomatoes, saffron and anise and making a bisque!

I mean, I have no truck with 'influencers' of any sort but bone broth and stock are different.

On a very simple level, broth doesn't contain vegetables or herbs; stock does and bone broth cools to a firmish jelly consistency; stock is a liquid.

My daughter uses it for Ramen … I’m guessing it’s a lot nicer than an Oxo cube

stock isnt bone broth

This bone broth looks like a stock recipe to me. Maybe I've been making stock wrong.

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bone_broth_95463

I have a lamb leg bone I the freezer. I hope I will get round to making broth out of it someday . I need a huge stock pot

Don't follow any influencers (can't stand the whole business) but do sometimes drink bone broth. The benefits pre-date trout pout Tik Tokkers or Intsta huns.

I suffer from autoimmune disease and use bone broth as part of an anti-inflammatory diet when I flare up. It works. It is definitely not the same as stock, I make my own and either slow cook bones for a full 24 hours, or pressure cook for 4-5 hours. I only use water, a bit of salt and some raw cider vinegar. Mucky and time consuming, so I don't tend to bother unless I'm inflamed. It does taste significantly better than stock though, so that helps me cope with the disgustingness of it. I can't bring myself to drink it neat, so make stew. I don't know why I can't just drink it though as it's literally the same thing, just with lumps of meat floating in it - which you'd think would be more off-putting, not less...!

My dogs have bone broth. It’s gelatinous and contains Apple cider vinegar vinegar, which is essentially the part that activates the anti-inflammatory action.

So if it is real bone broth it’s a little more than homemade stock.

Influencers are pretentious, it’s kind of inherent in what they do!

But I got recommended to drink one cup a day of bone broth instead of tea/coffee by a nurse when I was going through chemo. It’s full of lots of collagen and minerals, electrolytes, etc. Good for your gut and joints.

Depends how you make your stock. It you’re just throwing the carcass of your Sunday chicken in the pot with a bay live and some veg, you have a point. But if you tend to try for something tastier, your home made stock may well be bone broth, my main stock recipe is.