Chicken and beef stock granules

[notedbiscuits]

Live alone and find its very difficult to buy tubs of these without paying stupid prices online.

Sometimes you have a recipe for 150ml chicken or beef stock. It's difficult to halve a stock cube for making this.

Plenty of vegetable ones available.

I was looking at beef stock and broths last night and concluded that I need to make a batch up myself out of bones and then freeze it in portions that I will eat

Although Im not quite sure the difference between stock and broth. Its beef Im primarily looking at

I'd like to buy granules because I hate trying to crumble stock cubes so I agree! Halving stock cubes doesn't really bother me though, I just cut them and rewrap the remaining piece, or use double because I like strong flavours.

I don't have the space to make stock and freeze it.

I tried lots of different stock, but you can’t beat OXO cubes in my opinion.

I buy the soft stock cubes such as Kallo and then half/quarter them when less is needed then just re wrap what's left for next time

I just use the whole cube regardless….when I’m using homemade stock I have no idea how strong it is, after all.

I cook a lot and never use stocks. What are you using them for?
Store cupboard substitutes I use include:
Paprika and marmite, tomato purée, onion garlic for beef.
Celery/ parsley/ onion garlic curl of lemon zest for chicken/ fish.
And salt and pepper of course. If the recipe for eg a chicken dish specified 100ml of stock I’d add 100ml of water with either finely chopped or steeped in the water celery leaves salt bashes glove of garlic, couple of pepper corns, teaspoon of butter.

I sometimes use chicken stock powder from Amazon, it's less than £4 for 100g.
Half a teaspoon is sufficient for a meal for 2 if I've run out of H/M stock.

But celery steeped water doesn't taste like chicken stock? I'd use stock for onion gravy, homemade meatball sauce like ikea, smothered pork chops German style, you can't get the same flavour from onion garlic etc.

Op I'd just use half a cube or stick pot and save the rest til next time

Neither does stock made from cubes or powder. Unless it’s a risotto when I’ll use home made chicken stock some sort of flavour (marmite, red wine, tomato purée) aromatics and fat does the job.
Try nothing or as I suggested @notedbiscuits, stock cubes are an ultra processed waste of money.

I'd like to agree, home made stock is best, but I use more stock than I can generate in my household, so it's a matter of getting the best substitute.

I’ve seen glass jars of boullion powder in Polish shops, if that's any use. I've also bought jars of jellied stock in Chinese supermarkets but obviously that doesn't keep as long as powder.

I just use the whole stock cubes.

Granules last for forever though so whilst they maybe ££££ it's not as if you have to throw them out.