AB's Beefy Broth

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Made this in my electric cooks essentials P.C. turned out great, it doesn't have a salty bouillon taste. Used it in beef barley soup, used leftover meat. The final soup had a deep beef taste without the salt.

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I like this broth and have made it several times. Perhaps "savory" is the best word to describe it...it certainly does not have an overwhelming flavor, just right in my opinion. I've tried it with a couple of femur bones and the flavor was stronger, but I don't like the earthy marrow flavor, but some I suspect are expecting that.

And for those reviewers who ended up with a bland, weak broth, the problem is probably the pressure cooker. I heard about a pressure test that was done on 11 pressure cookers: 3 of them never reached anywhere near the optimal 15psi. This is why I love the Kuhn Rikon pressure cookers that W and Alton dismiss as too expensive in the show... they essentially have a pressure gauge so you always know what pressure you're at. They're a great investment!

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This recipe seems more like a stock than a broth, so it shouldn't have such a beefy taste so much as feel good in the mouth and be a base to build a soup on.

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I followed directions to the letter. At the end of it all, the broth is only a mild beef taste. I must admit I held back on extra salt as I really wanted to try a beef broth that wasn't salty. Now, what else can I do with this broth? Besides use it as stock for something else or add noodles? Any other suggestions?

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Alton is using a hard anodized Hawkins Futura pressure cooker. Hawkins Cookers Limited is an Indian pressure cooker and cookware manufacturer. They have 10 different lines of varying sizes, for a total of 57 different pressure cookers. I think their top of the line pressure cooker is the Hawkins Futura Stainless Steel pressure cooker, which I think was the pressure cooker that flustered Alton at the end of his encounter with 'W'. The 2nd generation pressure cooker that 'W' described was a Kuhn Rikon. You can get the Hawkins Futura at Amazon and many other resellers. It comes in 8 different sizes, but some don't appear available in the US.

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What kind of pressure cooker was that and where can I find one?

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What an total waste of great oxtail ! We eat the oxtail here in hawaii.

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Tastes way too much like onion and not heavy beef flavor. Has a lovely jelly like consistancy after sitting over night. I will try this recipe again, but go easy on the onions.

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You give a lot more information on your show than you do sometimes with your recipe's

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I'm a HUGE fan of all things Alton and normally I would have trouble finding fault with any of the recipes from his show because they consistently turn out well, but the beef broth one was kind of disappointing.

I followed the instructions to the letter (shank and oxtail pieces from a local meat market that I thoroughly browned for the broth, fresh parsley, filtered water, fresh veggies, etc., and the resulting beef broth looked more like a chicken broth or chicken stock in color. I had been expecting more of a darker brown.

More importantly, the flavor is a little weak. I added some salt and that improved the flavor slightly, but overall I still thought it was lacking.

I bought double the ingredients so I could make two batches so I plan on trying again tomorrow and we'll see if I end up with different results.