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Default Dumb stock/broth question


Pennyaline wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
> > biig wrote:
> >> Can anyone tell me what the difference is?? I'm guessing that broth
> >> is just the unseasoned liquid from simmering chicken parts and stock is
> >> the seasoned version. What is consomme compared to these?

> >
> > Broth is simply clarified stock. Consomme is broth that is typically
> > carefully defatted and served containing a very small quantity of meat
> > and/or veggies... no more than essentially a garnish. Most of what
> > yoose dumpster divers prepare and call stock ain't worth the
> > clarification process and certainly not something that would ever be
> > served as a consomme... garbage in garbage out... what most of yoose
> > call stock ain't barely passable as POW gruel, in fact I seriously
> > doubt it would pass muster under the Geneva Convention rulz.

>
> Do you mean the old Geneva Convention, or the new and improved American
> version?


Why is it always so easy to pick out the cowardly draft dodger types...
Clinton (all three), Pennyaline, etal.

Sheldon