Marmite

[The Cat]

Love the crisps but not the proper thing.

 

[MmmBeer]

Never bought a jar, but like tiger bread and used to like twiglets back in the day. It made me wonder why marmite gained the reputation of the ulimate 'love/hate' food, I think olives are a better example of that title, personally I'm a 'hater' of them.

 

[pms67]

It makes me think of a “Bovril”at Celtic Park from 1986-1990
I hate Marmite.
Maybe because we used to get beat a lot. ( except the Centenary year 88, won the double)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I have Bovril in my flask in winter but hate Marmite.

 

[foxy]

I have Bovril in my flask in winter but hate Marmite.

We have an equivalent, Bovril got banned from Australia through the mad cow saga. Its called Bonox I was working with some Swiss guys who had taken a liking to Bonox, we were commissioning some machinery and was working late on cold winter nights. They asked me if I would like some Bonox I accepted and was given a mug of Bonox complete with added milk!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I accepted and was given a mug of Bonox complete with added milk!

 

[Pjam]

Oh dear, I'm in the minority ....Love Marmite (even if the spell checker doesn't!) :) They used to say it was a brewing by product ...... myth perhaps?

 

[Banbeer]

brewing by product ...... myth perhaps?

That's why there's a shortage of the stuff, the OP states it.

 

[Pjam]

Your absolutely right !

Brewing slowdown hits Marmite production.

 

[MyQul]

For any of you marmite freaks. You can get a personalized jar with your name on it. My manager had one on her desk

https://social.marmite.co.uk

 

[Victor Churchill]

For any of you marmite freaks. You can get a personalized jar with your name on it. My manager had one on her desk

https://social.marmite.co.uk

Link says
Marmite
The site is currently out of use, we are sorry for any inconvenience.

:-(

 

[An Ankoù]

I prefer....

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Tesco's £2.19

Vegemite is the absolute bollocks. Marmite is the bee's knees. They're completely different, but similar in a strange sort of way. Love Marmite, love Vegemite. Tried Bovril once, yeuuch!
Must get our lad in Tas to send us some Vegemite.

 

[MyQul]

Link says
Marmite
The site is currently out of use, we are sorry for any inconvenience.

:-(

Thats a shame. It was working when I posted it

 

[Uist Brewer]

Anyone made marmite beer?

I think I just have, albeit by mistake. I made an oatmeal stout a couple of weeks ago and bottled it tonight. On drinking the contents of the FG sample jar, what I have is definitely liquid marmite.

I'm not complaining, exactly: I love marmite. But here I would have preferred beer.

 

[Viamphie]

That’ll no doubt go well on a crusty bread slice of toast.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I think I just have, albeit by mistake. I made an oatmeal stout a couple of weeks ago and bottled it tonight. On drinking the contents of the FG sample jar, what I have is definitely liquid marmite.

I'm not complaining, exactly: I love marmite. But here I would have preferred beer.

That's the classic taste of autolysis, literally "self-splitting", it's the corpses of dead yeast decomposing from attack by their own enzymes. Usually because either the yeast has been stressed too much during fermentation or because the beer has been left on the yeast too long.

Big fan of Marmite - it's meant to have double the glutamates (and hence umami) of just about anything else (even soy sauce or beef stock), I often use it as a stockcube replacement. Handy when you're cooking for vegetarians as it's vegan but gives a good meaty taste.

Also Marmite cashew nuts are a winner, although I struggle with most of the other branded products, the crisps aren't half as good as Twiglets and I can see why Marmite cheddar never took off...

 

[Griffster77]

It made me wonder why marmite gained the reputation of the ulimate 'love/hate' food

Marketing...

(Marmite lover here)

 

[Satellitemark]

I've just returned from Aldi, where I found they have started selling their own brand yeast extract at around £1 cheaper than Marmite, I haven't tried it yet, but in the past I've found other own brand yeast extract such as Sainsbury's to be fine.

Mark

 

[Griffster77]

Yeah we have Asda's version and its pretty good.

 

[DocAnna]

Marmite XO is the best - it's not available anywhere in Scotland so my mum sends me up jars from her local Tesco when she can get it.
https://www.marmite.co.uk/marmite-xo-is-back/store-list.html
Anna