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Stock, Broth, Jus

What is the difference between traditional Stock, Broth and Jus explained: a large cooking pot of water has bones thrown in to make Stock. A second pot has meat added to water to make Broth. The cooking tray used to roast a chicken is tipped up to pour out the Jus, made from pan drippings.

What is the difference between traditional, meat-based stock, broth and jus?

  • Traditionally, stocks have the flavour and gelatinous collagen-y thickness that comes from cooking bones.
  • Broth was cooked not with bones but with the meat itself.
  • While a jus is a sauce made from the pan drippings, usually from a roast.

I learned this simple distinction from chef Thomas Keller .

Now, you can also have vegetable stock. So, another useful distinction between stock and broth includes that, generally, stock is intended to be used in the preparation of another dish rather than eaten directly like broth. As such, you would more likely use whole vegetables in stock to impart the flavour, but still scoop them out afterwards, while a broth would have cut vegetables ready to eat in the broth itself.

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