Appreciation post: figuring out how to make my own veggie broth from scraps took me a whole year of trial and error...

Honestly, same. My first batch was just onion skins and celery ends and it tasted like sad dirt water. Took me forever to learn you need some carrot tops or a bit of mushroom to round it out. I definitely froze a bag of scraps for three months once because I was scared to try again.

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the_andrew6mo ago

A whole year? My soup would have been a science experiment by week two!

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reesemiller6mo ago

Yeah the "sad dirt water" phase is so real lol. I had a batch that was just potato peels and it was like drinking cloudy starch. The real game changer for me was saving the liquid from canned beans, that stuff adds a crazy amount of body. I almost gave up too but now my freezer looks like a scrap graveyard.

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