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oxo chinese stock cubes
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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there not a more authentic stock you could get from a chinese supermarket? Do you live anywhere where there is a chinese comunity?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!
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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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.
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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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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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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Not use them myself but I was going to suggest going along the lines of Chinese 5 spices
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