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Re: Salt in store bought stock - CLICK HERE for the Cooking Forum Index
Alan Moorman@visi.com
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:16:36 -0500, Michael Odom
<modom@un-koyote.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:50:47 -0500, Alan Moorman@visi.com wrote:
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>>>"Michael Odom" <modom@un-koyote.com> wrote in message
>>>news:jrb0g0d81njff6pq76rqop627qn1qkrogr@4ax.com...
>>>> Why is store bought beef and chicken stock so salty? Better yet, why
>>>> is chicken stock saltier than beef stock? Even reduced sodium chicken
>>>> stock has more salt than regular beef stock, according to the labels
>>>> I've read.
>>>

>>Salt is cheap and it gives the stock more 'flavor'.
>>
>>To concentrate the stock and give more legitimate flavor
>>would cost a lot more, and, who knows, it might not taste
>>very good, anyway!
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>>Cheap way to give their product some zip.
>>

>So you're saying that the reason canned chicken stock has more salt
>than canned beef stock is "flavor." This had occurred to me, but I
>was wondering if something else might be afoot.
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>
>modom
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