what is the difference between chicken stock and chicken broth ?

Question

i need to know for a recipe

Answer 1

Stock or Broth

Chicken stock tends to be made more from bony parts, whereas chicken broth is made more out of meat. Chicken stock tends to have a fuller mouth feel and richer flavor, due to the gelatin released by long-simmering bones.

Canned low-sodium chicken broth is the busy home-cook's best friend. If you've got an extra few minutes, enhance its flavor by adding any combination of the following and simmering for as long as you can: carrots, onions, leeks, celery, fennel, parsley, bay leaf, black peppercorns, or garlic. That'll help the flavor tremendously.

Enriching store-bought broth still won't give you the full stock experience, but unless you're making something like chicken noodle soup, where you really do want the stocky mouth feel, it's a great timesaver.

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

Zedpoint, you were a 'Chef' for 17 years????

Steve G is absolutely right on about this one, as are some others.

And just to add, the full flavor of a well done STOCK is the basis of just about every great sauce out there. Making a stock can be a very refined skill one must learn through experience, and although some broths may turn out pretty tasty and be the base of a decent soup or even gravy (although that has more to do with the roux, but that's another topic) you will never be able to duplicate with a broth a great sauce that was meant to be started with a well done stock

Answer 4

From what I understand, stock is made out of mostly the bones and broth uses the meatier parts. The stock has more gelatin and is cooked for much longer than the broth. Makes it silkier and more concentrated. That is how it was explained to me, but I am no chef.

Answer 5

Chicken stock and chicken broth are essentially the same thing.

both start with chicken bones (weather raw or roasted) and some vegetables (usually carrot, celery and onion) added to water then boiled to impart their flavors.

"Broth" is usually a clarified version of "stock", meaning that all of the 'solids' (the bits that you see floating around in your stock) have been removed.

if your recipe is calling for "stock" and all you have is "broth" you can substitute it and your recipe will be the same.

Answer 6

chicken stock is what you can do yourself, bones, scrapes, and the other parts of the chicken that you would not normally
use in a pot of boiling water with some seasonings of you're choice (me, black pepper, a little kosher salt), you use this mixture for adding to a recipe if you want it to be authentic.
broth is somewhat a diluted form of the same thing it's just the flavoring is not as defined.this is true of all stocks by the way,
beef,lamb etc.

Answer 7

No, they are not the same.

Broth is the clear liquid you get when you cook a chicken. Stock is the result you get when you cook it down for 24 hours. Generally you leave the carcass in and throw in some seasonings and let it simmer overnight. You end up with a very rich 'Stock' that is concentrated and can be used as a base for soup or other dishes.

Answer 8

If you bought Purdue shares 15 years ago, you'd be rich. Just kidding! It's the same thing...stock & broth.

Answer 9

Broth is made with meat. Stock is made with bones.

Answer 10

Same thing different words.