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Realized I was throwing away all my vegetable scraps after a coworker showed me her freezer bag of stock bones
I was just tossing carrot peels and onion ends in the trash for years until my friend Jen said 'you know that's free broth right' and now I have three quart bags of scraps in my freezer, any of you actually keep a dedicated scrap container on your counter or is that too much?
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wadefoster5mo ago
Man I read somewhere that keeping scraps on the counter can attract fruit flies so I just keep a bag in the freezer door, works fine. I save carrot peels, onion skins, celery ends, mushroom stems, even parmesan rinds if I have them. Throw it all in a pot with some water and simmer for a few hours, strain it out and you got way better broth than anything from a box.
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taylor_mitchell804mo ago
Hold up, do you really taste a difference though? I tried the freezer bag thing once and honestly my broth came out kinda muddy and weird. Half the time I forget what's in there and it all freezes together into this sad block of scraps that tastes like nothing. Plus simmering something for hours just to get a pot of water that's slightly more flavored feels like a huge time suck. I'd rather just buy a box of Swanson's for like two bucks and call it a day. Those frozen veggie scraps never gave me anything close to what I get from a carton.
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