You can’t beat the flavor! It has more flavor than any store bought broth you’ll buy. You won’t regret doing it. It’s cheap, easy, and really amps up your meals. It adds that special touch that’ll make your family and guests think you are an epic cook. All you did was use real food with layers upon layers of flavor. That’s the key! It’s how my soups turn out so well. Soup can be boring really easily, but the homemade broth actually makes you want to eat it. The store bought broths have too much darn salt that’s why I started primarily using homemade. I do buy store bought (in the lowest amount of salt I can find) only for emergencies.

I’ve also started putting a layer of wax/parchment paper in between the baggies sitting on top of each other in the larger baggies because I can sometimes have trouble with them sticking together if I didn’t clean them up good enough or if there’s a spill in one of the baggies.

Then when I want to to use I just take one of the baggies out and microwave for a few minutes to get it back to a liquid form and use or just put it on the stove to liquefy for use. You can easily cut away the snack baggies when it’s a solid cube of frozen broth. Take a knife or scissors and peel it away from the frozen cube. Makes it so easy!

My easy/lazy method:
I throw cooked/used bones and vegetable scraps in a gallon ziplock bag in the freezer as I go about my days. Then when I’ve determined that I have enough to merit doing a broth (or running out of room in freezer/in the bag then I’ll take it out rinse it off a bit to get any residual seasonings/sauces used on the meat.

Then I throw it all in the crock pot, fill with water to just below covering it, add 1tblsp of raw apple cider vinegar per cup (rough approximation), turn crock pot to high and wait until it’s boiling. It usually takes a couple of hours for me. So the whole idea of having the bones sit in ACV and water prior to cooking actually gets accomplished while also waiting for the crock pot to heat up.

Once boiling I turn it to low. I usually start this in the evening and then I check the water level in the morning, stir it up to make sure nothing is sticking, and then in the early afternoon I turn it off with the lid off to cool it down a bit.