What's the difference between chicken stock and chicken broth?

Question

Can we use one instead of the other?

Answer 1

stock and broth are kind of the same thing. stock is homemade and you can buy broth in a can. If you don't have time to make stock (you can get recipes on line) you can use canned chicken broth (Campbell's make a good broth). Chicken stock tends to be made more form bony parts, Whereas chicken broth is made more out of meat. Chicken stock tends to have a fuller richer flavor due to the gelatin released by long-simmering bones. But you can use ether or, chicken broth is a big time saver. If your making chicken soup you want to cook your chicken in water and use that as your stock. If you need more chicken flavor added to what your making you can get chicken base, it comes as a powder or in a cube (they are both vary salty so add salt last if more is needed).

Answer 2

Chicken broth is typically just the chicken simmered for periods of time to get the flavour out. Chicken stock is much more flavourful because it is chicken bones cooked with a mirepoix (a blend of carrots, onions, celery and a seasoning sachet). For the majority of home cooking, you will barely notice the difference between the two, and they are completely interchangeable. Try making your own chicken stock or broth next time you cook chicken with bones. I'll bake chicken legs, pull off all the good meat for soup and pot pie, then throw the bones in a pot with water and add vegetables, You can add anything you want, if you love the taste of eggplant, use it and your stock will have a eggplant flavour to it! In restaurants, usually we don't even use whole new vegs for the stock, it's all the trimmings. Put your carrots peelings and ends in there, the parts of the celery you don't use and the ends and skins of the onions. These are often some of the most flavourful parts of the vegs so it tastes great and saves money!

Answer 3

Watching Alton Brown last night, he defined broth as a liquid cooked with meat, vegetables and seasoning while a stock will always use the bones where you want the stock to have the gelatin extracted from the bones of a chicken, for example.

This makes sense... most stock recipes call for using the bones whether it's a beef stock or a chicken stock.

Yes, they can be used interchangeably. Just watch out for the salt content of the broth.

Answer 4

You can substituted one for the other... stock is the liquid left after stewing chicken with vegetables, and broth is what's left after JUST chicken.

Answer 5

Same ingredients (chicken, vegetables, water, seasoning) except that broth is the filtered, strained version

Answer 6

They are the same

Answer 7

They are virtually interchangeable.

Answer 8

Yes you can.