Beef stock cubes

[Merlin5]

I've been using supermarket own cubes. 10 in a pack for 50p. I dissolve 2 cubes to about 6/700ml boiling water. All tastes fine in my cottage pie, and the flour thickens it. I'm just wondering, am I missing out by not buying Knorr, Oxo or Bovril beef stock cubes, has anyone here compared? Knorr you only get 8 cubes for three times as much money. The others are 12 for £1.

 

[Merlin5]

Taste is fairly subjective and I doubt you'd notice the difference in a cottage pie (for example) but I'd be interested in the salt and other ingredients. You tend to get less weird stuff in the more expensive brands - as a vague rule.

Yeah true . Well, I've just compared the ingredients and nutritional values of all of them. To be honest, it's all very similar, I don't see any dodgy stuff in the cheap cubes, and also, both knorr and oxo are showing 0.9g salt per 100g and the supermarket one is showing 0.7g per 100g.

 

[Merlin5]

I normally use Knorr for everything,try adding a chicken stock cube to pasta instead of salt next time.

Interesting. I make a tuna, sweetcorn, tomato, chilli pesto and pasta (usually fusili) dish. Maybe I can buy fish stock and throw a cube in with the pasta as it boils?