7 Tips for Making Bone Broth Gel | Grass Fed Girl (2024)

7 Tips for Making Bone Broth Gel –

Bone broth provides important minerals and vitamins that we need to cope with stress in our daily lives.

It is an inexpensive way to get minerals and vitamins without taking supplements, which sometimes are not absorbed by the body when isolated from foods in supplements.

Broth also fights wrinkles, cellulite and is good for loose skin after weight loss. It also provides glucosamine and chondroitin, so ditch those expensive supplements that are probably just full of chalk and dust.

It helps ease protein digestion and heals the gut lining in the process.

It also stretches your protein so you don’t need to eat as much which will save you some money!

Broth is a superfood should be an most wanted addition to your real food menu!

Bone broth is good for you even if it does not gel, but many people are looking for that magic to happen.

Here are some tips that have helped my broth to gel:

Use My Recipe:

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Cook it low and slow in a slow cooker:

I prefer the crock pot like this one. If just don’t think it is realistic to sit by the stove for a 8-24 hours without burning the house down. In my experience, with a ton of clients, if you do not have a crock pot you just won’t make broth. When the broth is heated slowly it will preserve the collagen making it more likely to gel. I usually cook my broth for 12-24 hours and I basically never stop. I just add more water and throw in a few bones from that nights dinner, lol.

Add more bones:

When in doubt add more bones. My crock pot is seriously almost full of bones to the lid (it looks pretty gross so I will spare you a pic). It makes the broth gel in no time the more bones you add the better!! I save the bones from absolutely everything I eat which is not too hard when you have a cow share and there are bones with every piece of meat. I just put them all in freezer bag and save them until I am ready to make broth, which isn’t long.

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Add apple cider vinegar:

Apple cider vinegar like this one will help break down the bones better meaning more minerals and collagen will get out of the bones and into the broth assisting with the gelling process.

Use chicken heads and feet:

It may sound gross but these cuts are the ones that make the most collagen to help your broth gel. Chicken necks and backs are also good. The best part is that these bones are very cheap and many farmers may even beg you to take them off their hands. Cow knuckle bones are also very good for creating more gelatin.

Use better quality animal bones:

If you are using factory farmed animal bones fed an unnatural diet of corn and soy they will be very deficient in nutrients and their bones will not be able to give you the vital nutrition your body needs. Oh yeah, and cafo animals will not provide enough collagen to help your broth gel up and be perrrrrty!

Find good bones here:

Let it chill:

This one is pretty obvious but people seem very mystified by stock so I will add it. I used to always use my broth right away in a soup such as my cauliflower soup or summer squash soup. I never waited around to see if it gelled or not so finally let it sit in the fridge overnight to see if it did gel, and guess what, it did!

Bonus Tip: last resort

Add a few tablespoons gelatin, such as 2-3 tbsp for a crock pot full. I don’t think this is necessary but it is a cheater way of getting your broth to gel, even though the more gelatin you get you can only win,lol. I love this brand because it is grass fed and easy to find on Amazon. It also lasts a long time especially if you get the two tube deal here.

I have not ever made it with a pressure cooker but you can try my freind Zenbelly’s here. I have heard rave reviews for her method!

Happy gelling, let me know how it goes!

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Source: Monica Corrado, broth expert