Stock cubes (OXO) v Knorr Stock Pots

Had never checked the ingredients of Oxo (which are printed in the teeny tiniest font under the box) until yesterday!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnifying-Handheld-Illuminated-Magnifier-Lightweight/dp/B01MQE91R5/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1547378232&sr=8-4&keywords=magnifying+glass+with+light

Thank me later

are Knorr 3x the price of oxo?

You tell them how you like your stock Lady. Make no bones about it.

Aspro.... I had to use a magnifier to read it....

Price....at the moment Oxo are £1.69 at Tesco for twelve.

Knorr Stock Pots are on offer at £1.00 for four so, considering that you need two or three Oxo cubes, to get anywhere near to the intensity of flavour,
and integrity of the ingredients, it's a no brainer really!

Also, dependant on the volume you are cooking, you may not need a whole STOCK pOT!

so that would be £3 for 12?

when they're on offer of course

Are Bovril cubes better than Oxo?

I crossed an Oxo with a hyena. I made myself a laughing stock...... (courtesy of the joke thread)

LFV - Your comparison between Oxo AND Knorr is a good one but you have overstated it. Not knowing how much of the Knorr beef stock is still water flaws your 70% somewhat.

Stock cubes are a nightmare.  The original (and still available) Knorr Beef Cubes contain 4% "beef extract".  The latest Knorr "Rich Beef Cubes" contain 2% "beef extract"
with presumably the claimed "rich"ness coming from the new addition of malt extract (marmite??)

i quite like knorr chicken stock pot, ...i put one in my chilli, at same time
as the tomatoes go in. .....get nicer taste than with oxo or beef stockpot

you pays yer monets and yer takes yer pick!

stockpots are often on promotion , and can be bought 2 for 1 or similar

rather like nescafe coffee, why buy them at full price?

Gordon would be incandescent if he caught anyone using an oxo.

stock cubes are the devil's spawn

gordon isn't in decent cans - I think he only likes fresh veg and fruit

Baphornet....sorry, I thought that might confuse!

As I described Oxo as being for twelve cubes, I similarly meant a pack of four with Stock Pots!

Anyway I've just come back from there, and now the Stock pots are £1.69 and Oxo are £1.60.....

Good job that I always stock up, whilst offers are available.

will they be able to fly them in during the airlift? or come by rubber boats?

stock up on stock pots before the end of march!!!

iceland had em 8 for £2 last i saw

Re the comment "Bovril Cubes v Oxo, Bovril wins hands down.

Not everywhere stocks them however, but I'll be checking them out again, if I see them....

Actually, having just found the ingredients, I won't bother!

Salt, Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate), Colour (Ammonia Caramel), Flavourings, Potassium Chloride, Palm Fat, Potato Starch, Beef Broth (3%), Sugar, Yeast Extract, Acid (Lactic Acid), Onion Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Oil

I only go to Tesco Express, but the main supermarket, and Morrisons have them at £1.00...

I used to always have Bovril (which is sold as a drink) in the larder but it went up in price from £3.39 to over £4.00
which I would say is a bit strong!

I used that before the Stock Pots were available.

Thing is that, for a price of £4.00, you can get sixteen Stock Pots (when on offer) and I doubt one could get sixteen generous tea spoons, from a jar!

Beef Broth (50%) [Water, Beef Bones],
Yeast Extract (27%) [contains Barley, Wheat, Oats, Rye],
Salt,Water,Colour (Ammonia Caramel),Corn Starch,Beef Powder (1%),
Flavour Enhancers (Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate),

The Knorr Stock Pots are more than 70% beef....

Concentrated beef stock (66%) (water, beef extract), salt, beef fat (5.2%)

more likely 70% water

it's extremely disappointing to find so many relying on these kind of products rather than making their own stock.

Actually, I boil up a chicken carcass, onion & carrot sliced, bay leaf, some black peppercorns, but at the end I will add a knorr chicken stock cube or Lidl's own which are fraction of the price.

Oxo cubes are a 19th-century German invention, oddly enough. Justus Freiherr von Liebig, possibly the greatest chemist who ever lived imo, was also the man who invented Marmite.

It was all part of his efforts to educate people in where the actual nutrition comes from in food. He got frustrated by people pouring away the fat and juices from meat, for instance, as that's where the goodness lies, hence the Oxo cube to restore those juices.

He discovered all the secrets of what makes crops grow (basically, if a single vital mineral is lacking in the soil, then it doesn't matter how much of everything else you have - nothing will grow).

Without his research there'd be none of the reliable crop yields we now take for granted.

McCoy Carp - Your recipe made me giggle as it is my mothers recipe (plus celery) for chicken soup (Delicious it is too). Right or wrong, she said you can't make chicken stock with cooked chicken.  I use bulk raw chicken wings from my butchers! - a chef I know uses "feet" as well.

Sorry, should of been a bit clearer. If I buy a chicken I like to get at least two meals out of it after I've roasted it, ie Sunday dinner then, then maybe buttered noodles with green beans and chicken. Then I'll boil up what's left as above, for the basis of soup or stew, but it needs a bit of oomph so I normally add a stock cube at the end, and also once I've made the soup/stew I always add a bit of cream sherry (fortfied British wine). We've got an arrangement in our house where I do the cooking, the wife does everything else ie, washing ironing cleaning, which as it happens, suits both of us

Lady Faye has the big issues covered. knorr pots 4 times the price of an oxo cube but worth it imo

Oxos we're good for mixing in with mash potatoes

If you are truly interested, I would suggest waiting until you can buy the stock pots for £1.00, and buy both them and Oxo...

Make a simple drink with just hot water, for both (use only a third of a stock pot in one, and a whole Oxo cube in the other)
then make a judgement....

i'm semi interested

These badgers, Lady F?

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=knorr%20stock%20pots&icid=tescohp_sws-1_m-sug_in-knorr%20_ab-226-b_out-knorr%20stock%20pots

Incredible trilby!

I don't go to the main Tesco supermarket, but only (for convenience) Tesco Express!

I never saw packs of eight anywhere, but at £1.32 is incredible!!!

Only yesterday, a pack of four was £1.69!

Was in today, but I didn't look!

Spooky thread for me, had a bovril drink for the first time i would guess in 20 years on saturday at football, with a hotdog ditched the so called sausage wanted the crusty bread, took me back to watching floyd win when i was a young nipper.

Never use the stock cubes but I go through loads of Bisto gravy.
As Alan Partridge used to say:

"Ahaha! Bisto"

(Actually the missed a massive marketing trick there didn't they).

Talking of Bovril I've actually tried using watered down Bisto as a sort of Bovril substitute if I wanted a hot drink at night that wasn't coffee or tea. Kind of works!

For houseofpain:

Thanks for that sfb, great memories with me old grandad taking me racing. Where you think that is kempton??

I took the photo in the pre-parade ring at Ascot, just before Christmas 1990. The horse was a 10yo then, and making his seasonal debut in the Long Walk Hurdle, after yet another injury lay-off. He went on to win, making all as usual. I was determined to get one good photo of him, because pictures of any but the very best horses were hard to come by in those days. I had £1,000 to £80 each way, which was a hell of a bet in my circumstances back then.

I loved Floyd more than I've loved any other horse, even my own. He was simply inspirational. The way he battled back again and again to win races was unreal. David Elsworth had a couple of similarly courageous and enthusiastic front-runners, in Desert Orchid and Persian Punch, and Floyd was never absolutely top-class like those two. But, as Elsworth said, Floyd was the one you'd want in the trenches with you.

And then there was the sheer speed of his hurdling. He actually appeared to jump faster than he galloped. Make A Stand is the only other hurdler I've seen with a technique like that, but Floyd somehow did it while jumping out to his right at every hurdle.

I think Oxo makes dinner taste weird and is not as good as any other stock cube. Stock pots and cubes aren't much different to each other though.

You appear pleased Lady F

I get through a large amount of Oxo (beef & chicken, mainly) & shall stop by Tesco tomorrow to purchase each of the four Knorr eight packs on offer.  A wee "stock" up, if you like

Jan 14, 2019 -- 10:21PM, screaming from beneaththewaves wrote:

I took the photo in the pre-parade ring at Ascot, just before Christmas 1990. The horse was a 10yo then, and making his seasonal debut in the Long Walk Hurdle, after yet another injury lay-off. He went on to win, making all as usual. I was determined to get one good photo of him, because pictures of any but the very best horses were hard to come by in those days. I had £1,000 to £80 each way, which was a hell of a bet in my circumstances back then.I loved Floyd more than I've loved any other horse, even my own. He was simply inspirational. The way he battled back again and again to win races was unreal. David Elsworth had a couple of similarly courageous and enthusiastic front-runners, in Desert Orchid and Persian Punch, and Floyd was never absolutely top-class like those two. But, as Elsworth said, Floyd was the one you'd want in the trenches with you. And then there was the sheer speed of his hurdling. He actually appeared to jump faster than he galloped. Make A Stand is the only other hurdler I've seen with a technique like that, but Floyd somehow did it while jumping out to his right at every hurdle.

Good read that, was my first real horse racing star that i followed.

I used to make a warming and comforting drink with Bovril and plus Passata and chilli....

Since it went up to over £4, I'm using the stock pots and also adding some of the Veggie ones.

Going to follow your lead Trilby, and pop to the main Tesco supermarket....

In my local Asda OXO stock pots(all flavours) are the same price as KNORR stock pots (£2 for 8) didn't check the ingredients.

Please insert appropriate swear words here...

Just back from Tesco and the only packs of eight are Vegetable!

Packs of just four Beef are £1.45!

What I have picked up are Tesco branded packs of four beef, for £0.90 which I'm thinking may be just the same, and also Bovril at £3.39
as opposed to over £4. at the express.....

Ok....have done a comparison of Knorr and Tesco....

Appearance wise the Tesco are not as gelatinous as the Knorr.

Taste wise the Tesco aren't in the same league, though still better, I think, than OXO!

Bearing in mind that, perhaps in isolation, the Tesco would probably be acceptable, as part of a Bolognese sauce,
especially if made into a Chilli!

I certainly wouldn't buy them if the Knorr were on offer at £1.00, but might consider if Knorr were £1.69!

That said, I would have to prove they were acceptable in the final dish, because as with anything else, the price is secondary!

Here are the ingredients of the Tesco......

INGREDIENTS: Water, Salt, Glucose Syrup, Dextrose, BeefFat, Flavourings, Caster Sugar, Yeast Extract, Beef Extract, Onion Concentrate, Barley Malt Extract Powder, Stabiliser (Tara Gum), Ascorbic Acid, Red Wine Concentrate, Parsley, Black Pepper, Antioxidant (Rosemary Extract).

LFV, I've just ordered one each of the chicken, veg and rich beef before their offer expires on Tuesday.

Would you recommend rich beef over regular beef?

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=knorr%20stock%20pots

More precise link …

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=knorr%20stock%20pots&viewAll=promotion&promotion=offers
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Trilby - re Knorr Beef Cubes.  I posted this earlier on in this thread.

"Stock cubes are a nightmare.  The original (and still available) Knorr Beef Cubes contain 4% "beef extract".  The latest Knorr "Rich Beef Cubes" contain 2% "beef extract"
with presumably the claimed "rich"ness coming from the new addition of malt extract (marmite??).

They are both ok though, but I prefer the original as the new rich one is saltier.

trilby    I've only ever used the "Rich Beef" as that's what they have at Tesco Express so I can't comment on the other option!

They make it difficult to read the ingredients, by the way they have brackets after brackets, but I can't think extra salt will be very significant, considering the small size of the pots......

I mean if they had 20% salt, it would only be something like a level teaspoon, which will be lost, in the volume of the finished dish!

Ah, okily.  I'll get the regular beef ones too and report back with a taste test once I've tried them both.  Thanks

Just back from the main Tesco, and I bought the last nine Rich Beef, and another Vegetable (I got four last time).

Ridiculously. they still have packs of four at £1.45. and I wonder how many suckers buy them!

Not long updated my order LDF.  Eta this time tomorrow

I can barely contain my excitement!!..Stock cubes????..ffs!!

sofia, you clearly don't understand the importance of things like this!

Next we are going to be discussing "X-Stitch" and knitting patterns....

These are very good, LFV.  Thank you for the heads up & don't mind that sofi loon.  He's more a connoisseur of "Noodle de la Pot" & "Tesco Beans Range de la Basic" with Knorr Stock Pots being way out of his league.

The beefs make a great cuppasoup with a distinct marrow taste to the rich beef.  Both a touch salty perhaps but a larger mug would easily have taken care of that after my additions of black pepper, turmeric and chilli sauce.

I recommend these to the house.

I make a large pan of a warming Beef drink, with added Passata and Pepper/Chilli....

Just about to make my first Beef Stew of this winter, and will have some tomorrow, with Herby Dumplings....

Just a timely update foe anyone who cares...

Having been a quite expensive £1.70 for a pack of four, over many months, they are now two for £2.00 at Tesco.

I'm assuming that, perhaps, other supermarkets may follow suit, but in the meantime I have filled my boots!

I also make a hot, comforting drink, but I add Tomato Passata/Puree, and a teeny pinch of Chilli Powder....

Don't know why I just repeated myself!

Must be stock pot drink overload.....