Bone Broth?

[tinaja]

So I tried a sample in the organic grocery store recently. It tasted good, but more like beef broth. Today I went to a different store and they had it in flavors like chocolate, etc. I bought "beet", café mocha and a plain one. Trying the beet first in hot water. The base is chicken.

Really the health craze here. Not sure how much I believe its any better for you than say, chicken soup.

Tried it?

[Liiisa]

Chocolate? wtf! That sounds absolutely vile.

Nope, I've seen it in various places here for a couple of years now and read about how cool it is etc and never have bothered to find out why.

[Bastet]

It’s basically stock / soup and very trendy with intermittent fasting people as it has food nutrition and electrolytes.

Not tried it yet myself or done any research to see if it’s any better in reality.

[tzarine]

so i had some
it's expensive & the faddy people all adore it
it tasted like broth

[ozziegiraffe]

How is this different from what I make myself using a chicken carcass?

[tzarine]

it costs a lot more!

[shilgia]

I had the same question, actually. Other than being hip, how does bone broth differ from regular nonvegetarian broth/stock?

[Liiisa]

It seems like even Bon Appetit was confused about it: www.bonappetit.com/story/difference-between-bone-broth-and-stock

[shilgia]

Thanks, Liiisa! Just weird then. I think we can all blame the paleo community, who seem to seek a neanderthal aesthetic (meaaaaaat! bone! muscle! more meat! meat with bone! soup with bone! meaaaaaat!).

[Liiisa]

They should start a new magazine Bone Appetit

[shilgia]

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

[wombatrois]

Bone broth = stock = fad

Nuff said.

[sprite]

i'll have to check, but i think i have a freezerful of this stuff.

finally! i'm trendy!!

[sophie]

Good broth has always been trendy

[sprite]

so, basically, it's stock but cooked for 24+ hrs rather than 4-6?

depends a bit on reliable stove tops, good pans, and cheap power.

[ozziegiraffe]

Ah. In Australia we would be paying a premium for all that power.

[sprite]

once again, 'health' food is expensive. this actually really irritates me, this gentrification of food. like, you can't eat healthy, according to the experts, unless you eat foods a, b, and c, which are super easy to make, but actually expensive because of the time, or because you need small amounts of an expensive product only sold in large quantities...

[Liiisa]

Edited to completely change it to:

I just deleted this statement about the fact that healthy food doesn't have to contain expensive stuff like bone broth, you can just eat vegetables, etc. But then I saw on twitter a bunch of folks in low-income areas saying that if you're on food stamps (social welfare food assistance) here in the US you can't even afford vegetables, (so never mind, actually I knew that already and therefore am not quite sure what I was going on about there).

[sprite]

healthy food shouldn't be expensive. If a person has the knowledge, the kitchen, and the staples, they can cook good food for very little.

but not everyone has all of those things.

[wombatrois]

In news just to hand, my local greenskills is offering a bone broth workshop ;-D

Good food shouldn't cost the earth. Buy seasonally and be canny and you should be able to eat well (healthily) for little.

Having said that, I just found out that the unemployment benefit is $240 a week. It would be difficult to find anywhere to live for that amount of money, let alone power, food, water (yes, any excess water the tenant usually shares the cost with the landlord), medicine (of course you can get discounted if on welfare), doctors (of course you can find one that bulk bills).

And so much for having any fun or meaning to life.

Sorry, feeling particularly negative about how our society treats those less fortunate.

[tzarine]

some of the farmers' markets are letting people use food stamps for produce, but are they buying heirloom tomatoes @ $5 a pound or the $15 duck breast of the $7 strawberries? bc the farmers' markets here cater to a different class

bc the healthfood stores are just ridiculously priced here
bc in the states, the poor get to eat the pesticides if they eat fresh vegetables at all bc there are no supermarkets in many low income areas

i made broth from a free pigfoot one of the vendors gave me last winter. i simmered it for 12 hours & made ramen.

[ozziegiraffe]

I have the remains of a roast chicken in the freezer that will get turned into soup over the weekend.