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Old 02-04-2008, 09:56
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help, oxo chinese stock cubes, I use them all the time, in loads of recipes , cant seem to find them anywhere, have oxo stopped producing them?

could anyone tell me where I can get some ?
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Old 02-04-2008, 10:23
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Have you tried different supermarkets?

I see this is your first post, welcome to DS! Did you actually search for a food forum to find this place by the way?
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Old 02-04-2008, 10:32
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Have you tried different supermarkets?

I see this is your first post, welcome to DS! Did you actually search for a food forum to find this place by the way?
searched for food forums found this one, tried all supermarkets everywhere, nothing, tescos said they no longer stock them
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Old 02-04-2008, 10:47
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Well how bizarre. I never realised the difference in what oxo means across the pond to here. Just been looking and couldn't even find stock cubes on oxo.com, and then go here oxo.co.uk, and thats the first thing you see.

Are they different companies?
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Old 02-04-2008, 10:50
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Is there not a more authentic stock you could get from a chinese supermarket? Do you live anywhere where there is a chinese comunity?
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Old 02-04-2008, 10:50
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help, oxo chinese stock cubes, I use them all the time, in loads of recipes , cant seem to find them anywhere, have oxo stopped producing them?

could anyone tell me where I can get some ?
how funny! I was wondering this myself. Can't get them in ASDA anymore.
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Old 02-04-2008, 12:20
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Is there not a more authentic stock you could get from a chinese supermarket? Do you live anywhere where there is a chinese comunity?
difficult one , most authentic chinese stock cubes contain
fish or fish products , which is no good ,as we are both strict
vegetarians and dont eat any meat or fish or anything containing meat or fish products , oxo ones where veg friendly
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Old 02-04-2008, 13:22
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difficult one , most authentic chinese stock cubes contain
fish or fish products , which is no good ,as we are both strict
vegetarians and dont eat any meat or fish or anything containing meat or fish products , oxo ones where veg friendly
Sorry can't help you then, I'm a complete carnivore.
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Old 02-04-2008, 14:13
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Could you make some? Since they put up the prices to ridiculous amounts I now make a big batch of condensed stock up, then freeze in icecube trays (it's nicer anyway, nowhere near as salty and I know exactly what went in!).

I'd use the water from boiled tatties as a base for this (or maybe even rice water for a further chinese style) and then whack in some 5 spice, ginger, soy etc. Experiment with wee batches first till you get the right flavour
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Old 02-04-2008, 14:17
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Could you make some? Since they put up the prices to ridiculous amounts I now make a big batch of condensed stock up, then freeze in icecube trays (it's nicer anyway, nowhere near as salty and I know exactly what went in!).

I'd use the water from boiled tatties as a base for this (or maybe even rice water for a further chinese style) and then whack in some 5 spice, ginger, soy etc. Experiment with wee batches first till you get the right flavour
Wont that just be a gingery veg stock though? I presume they make the veg chinese stock by using E numbers to replace the taste the fish bone would give it. So surely you need either the fish bone or the Es to get the flavour of it. And for veggies, it leaves just the E number left.
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Old 02-04-2008, 14:24
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Beef Oxo Cubes

Wheatflour, Salt, yeast extract, cornflour, colouring, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate), beef fat, yeast, flavouring, dried beef bonestock, sugar, onion pepper extract.
Vegetable Oxo Cubes

Salt, potato starch, wheatflour, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), flavourings (include celery), onion extract, dried glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil, carrot extract, yeast extract, tapioca dextrin, dried tomato, dried herbs (parsley, bay and thyme) and sugar.
Italian Herb & Spice Oxo Cubes

Wheatflour, salt, sugar, potato starch, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), herbs and spices (fennel, parsley, basil, black pepper), hydrogenated vegetable oil, dried onion, dried glucose syrup, flavouring (contains milk), dried tomato, yeast extract, tapioca dextrin.

Wow - I don't use stock cubes, but wow. All I use is bones, veg, water and salt.
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Old 02-04-2008, 14:31
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I thought all oxo cubes were in fact veggie friendly, much like crisps, but i see the beef ones actually do have beef fat in. Makes a change.

But does that mean the chinese ones weren't veggie friendly either?
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Old 02-04-2008, 14:35
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Beef Oxo Cubes

Wheatflour, Salt, yeast extract, cornflour, colouring, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate), beef fat, yeast, flavouring, dried beef bonestock, sugar, onion pepper extract.
Vegetable Oxo Cubes

Salt, potato starch, wheatflour, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), flavourings (include celery), onion extract, dried glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil, carrot extract, yeast extract, tapioca dextrin, dried tomato, dried herbs (parsley, bay and thyme) and sugar.
Italian Herb & Spice Oxo Cubes

Wheatflour, salt, sugar, potato starch, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), herbs and spices (fennel, parsley, basil, black pepper), hydrogenated vegetable oil, dried onion, dried glucose syrup, flavouring (contains milk), dried tomato, yeast extract, tapioca dextrin.

Wow - I don't use stock cubes, but wow. All I use is bones, veg, water and salt.
Thats why I never use OXO. They are full of nasty stuff. No wonder why there are fat people out there with all that fattening poison called MSG!
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Old 02-04-2008, 14:42
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Thats why I never use OXO. They are full of nasty stuff. No wonder why there are fat people out there with all that fattening poison called MSG!

Dito ! I only ever use organic stock, free of any artificial additives or MSG.
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Old 02-04-2008, 14:48
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Thats why I never use OXO. They are full of nasty stuff. No wonder why there are fat people out there with all that fattening poison called MSG!
So easy to make your own - makes your chicken (free range off course) go so much further.

I had a heated argument over wether fish stock really was a stock, as fish have no marrow or gellatine in their bones.

Still not sure.
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Old 02-04-2008, 15:43
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Wont that just be a gingery veg stock though? I presume they make the veg chinese stock by using E numbers to replace the taste the fish bone would give it. So surely you need either the fish bone or the Es to get the flavour of it. And for veggies, it leaves just the E number left.
I guess so, but it's how I would make a veggie friendly chinese style stock Aren't E numbers just industry codes for stuff rather than specifically manmade flavourings? So could they just be using fish bone under a code or do they specifically say veggie friendly? I guess, having never (to my knowledge) had a chinese oxo cube, I should stay out the debate!
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Old 02-04-2008, 15:51
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I guess so, but it's how I would make a veggie friendly chinese style stock Aren't E numbers just industry codes for stuff rather than specifically manmade flavourings? So could they just be using fish bone under a code or do they specifically say veggie friendly? I guess, having never (to my knowledge) had a chinese oxo cube, I should stay out the debate!
Dont know about the veggie thing or not, but E numbers are just euro authorised food ingredients aren't they. So one could just be fish bone, or it could be a manufacture flavour not using fish, much like beef chrips are actually veggie friendly. Same as the meaty flavoured potnoodles.
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Old 02-04-2008, 18:31
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hi

i just got some for the first time a couple fo weeks ago, first time i had seen them, and wish i had got more.

It was at a place called inshops/poundstretcher, if that helps.

They are great.
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Old 03-04-2008, 15:51
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Not use them myself but I was going to suggest going along the lines of Chinese 5 spices
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