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Ratio Guide: Cooking Times for Basic Stocks

This guide contains many standard and traditional recipes you will use at the Culinary Insitute of America. Please bookmark this page to use it as a quick reference.

Cooking Times for Basic Stocks

Fish stock and fumet

35 - 45 minutes

Vegetable 45 minutes - 1 hour
Court bouillon 45 minutes - 1 hour

Chicken stock

3 - 4 hours

Brown veal stock

6 - 8 hours 

White beef stock 8 - 10 hours 
Meat broth simmered until meat is fork-tender. 

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