To think that chicken powder should not be described as "carefully selected meats, boiled for hours"

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I bought Knorr stock pots for the first time today. Read the back, ideal for my risotto. I had read the blurb describing the chefs carefully selecting meats and boiling them for hours with select vegetables.

I picked up the packet while stirring my risotto, and read the ingredient list. "...chicken fat...chicken powder". NOT ONE BIT OF ACTUAL MEAT!!!

Make your own with the chicken carcass and freeze it, nothing tastes like real stock, no matter what Marco de la blahdeblah says....

What is chicken powder?

why would you have meat in a stock cube though (confused)

IFancyKevinELevin (what a name [grin[]) - I would usually do that, but only had chicken breasts.

Chicken powder is....powdered chicken. May as well have used an Oxo Cube.

not a cube - a pot, like jelly isn't it?

Yes - it looked like the real deal.

I'm sure Marco actually uses them in his kitchen too ....

we use the beef ones and they are yummy - a lovely rich flavour much more like homemade stock than you get from a stock cube

why expect real meat though - homemade stock is made from bones, skin, fat, giblets etc all boiled up - but it all infuses flavour into the stock

I think the OP suspects they may be reconstituted cubes with a bit of gelatin or something. Handy to have in the cupboard when you dont have stock to hand. You can buy stock in a vacuum pack or tub though?

PeedOffWithNits - The cardboard outer says, and I quote:

"Knorr Stock Pot is a rich, concentrated, premium stock. Knorr chefs have carefully selected meats, herbs and spices that are gently simmered into a concentrated little Stock Pot, which....."

Now, tell me that you think 1.8% chicken fat and 0.25% Chicken Powder should be described as "carefully selected meat"??

But stock doesn't have meat. That's the whole point. You make it from leftovers after you have eaten all the meat off the carcass.

Yes, it is simmered but then they take out the solid stuff and the stock it what's left, so there never will be meat in it.
Fat and powder are soluble, so they will still be in teh liquid.

Yes, but instead of using a carcass, they have put some chicken powder in a vat with some veg, and simmered it. I wanted it to be real stock, made by simmering a real carcass, like I would do at home. If I had known (and I should have read it more carefully) that it would be a bit of ground chicken with a carrot, I would have used an oxo cube.

No, the powder is what is in the stock cube jelly thing, not what they simmered. They can't put on the ingredients what they removed from the stock.

so you'd buy it if it said it had real bones in it, and expect them to still be there? LOL

chicken powder is what is left after they have boiled everything to oblivion and evaporated the excess liquid. concentrated REAL chicken flavour (not chicken flavouring). yum.

its a bit like the diference between saying something is made with whole milk, or contains whey powder.

OP, you're overthinking this.

How do you think they made the chicken powder?!?!?

They made it by boiling chicken carcasses for hours and hours. Tat's how.

Exactly, PWON. I feel cheated if I see 'whey powder' or 'egg powder'. I don't want powder. I want the real thing.

no, you mis-understand me - i was merely saying they are duty bound to be tell the truth. so you cannot call something real dairy ice cream if it only contains whey powder.

but in THIS case, it IS chicken powder, made from boiling up chicken and filtering out the crud and then reducing it down till thats all thats left. real chicken now as a residue of fat & powder. if they called it chicken, people would expect to see lumps of meat in it. so they cannot call it that.