Chicken Bone Broth

Once fall arrives, I'm making bone broth. It's a 2-day process between roasting the bones, letting them cool, 12 hours minimum of simmering, letting it cool, bottling, cooling some more and TOTALLY worth it to see that golden, gelatinous goodness the next morning. Well, I do a weekly, extended fast and breaking with bone broth is gentlest on the tummy. So I figured I'd try this for the warmer months when I'm not making broth and oh my GOODNESS, it's YUMMY!! I also bulletproof it and sprinkle a little Himalayan salt on the foam but I did try it before adding the salt. Really, really delicious!

I use to make vegetable soup very good for you

Best tasting broth on the market

I've learned how to make soup from my mum, who used to go the poultry market and buy a live chicken, which they dressed, but also bought extra feet. I haven't seen the feet available for decades, which are full of collagen, mentioned in today's modern fascination with bone soup. Also the market used to sell beef bones cut up for soup but seemed to sell as dog bones now with barely any meat or marrow. I do not use oxtails. One thing about broth, I was taught, it is supposed to be made with meat. Stock is made with bones, and the remnants of flesh, according to my mum. Well, we are talking Mid Century after the Great Depression and World War II Rationing she lived through. So, my mum had this pan that fit on the 1896 gas range with flat burners, to boil up the bones in a couple gallons of water. She used a lot of salt and some vinegar at first. She made a bouquet garni, with some fresh celery, onion, carrot, thyme, and a bay leaf, black pepper corns, and cooked all day, water added occasionally. The stock was then filtered through cheesecloth, and should not be too cloudy. So good with a little pastina (those tiny pasta stars) when we were ill. Got us through the Hong Kong flu!So what about this product? I was very surprised by the intense celery flavor, and yet blandness. Looked like all the good "keto" fat had been skimmed. It was cloudy, and had little aroma. For such a well reviewed product, I was surprised.That's another fallacy I have seen in soup making. One is skims "scum" which is looks foamy with dark particles which are old plasmas and loose proteins. The fat remains, and if desired to remove, is let harden in the fridge overnight, so it is just a layer of fat that can be lifted by hand, and below it should be a nearly firm jelly of the soup's collagen. So this product had little or no fat, and was thin consistency even watery but cloudy, with barely noticeable salt. Just that celery flavor overwhelming any 'beefiness". With long days of hot hot weather, I was hoping to find a good substitute while keeping the stove turned off. It was not this product. It does get rave reviews, but not what I am used to.

Second Update: I’ve braved trying bone broth again. Picked up a few boxes from Kroger. I’ve tried the Butter Chicken, Classic Chicken, and Mushroom Chicken so far. All have been good. They were thin and brothy tasting. Nothing like the ones I tried and reviewed earlier. I can confirm now that they were indeed rancid. Because of my inexperience I didn't realize that bone broth wasn’t supposed the be thick and foamy.Twice I’ve added two boxes to my homemade chicken soup. I’m not yet ready to drink it in a cup. Though I have tasted it before adding to the pot for fear of ruining the soup. It does have a certain smell of bones I’m not fond of, but it works nicely when added to soup.I recommend checking out the local stores because it’s too high priced here for some reason.- - - -Update: I feel badly for giving such a negative review. I’m still not sure if ours were spoiled, or if this particular flavor wasn’t to our taste. After contacting customer service, they very kindly gave us a refund.Original Review: It’s our opinion our boxes had gone bad. We forced ourselves to take a few sips because it’s supposed to be healthy. My daughter told me it tasted like vomit, so we poured it out. So awful, and very thick. I tried to return for a refund because we believe it was rotten, but it says it’s not returnable. What a waste of money! The rest of the boxes are going in the trash.

This product is expensive, however in my opinion is one of the best broths out there. Given that we personally have no means of measuring minerals, gelatin, glycine and other benefits, I will say that when heated up looks richer, and seemingly I can notice a positive response physically. It is speculation but worth noting.