Professional-Grade Stock & Demi Glace Online in the UK
FINE & WILD carries a range of professional-grade stocks and demi glaces from Salsus, alongside cooking pastes and stock bases from Terre Exotique. Good stock is the foundation of good cooking — it underpins soups, sauces, risottos, braises, and countless other preparations. The products on this page are what professional kitchens use when they don't have the time or volume to make stock from scratch. They're a genuine shortcut, not a compromise.
Salsus — Professional Stock & Demi Glace
Salsus is a Norwegian producer that makes stocks and demi glaces for professional chefs. Their products are slow-cooked from fresh Norwegian raw materials — vegetables, herbs, meat, fish, and dairy — with no additives or flavour enhancers. The recipes are developed in collaboration with some of Norway's leading chefs, and the quality is immediately apparent: these stocks have genuine body, clean flavour, and the natural gelatin content that comes from proper long-cooking of bones and aromatics.
We carry Salsus chicken, beef, fish, and vegetable stocks, alongside chicken, beef, lamb, and veal demi glaces.
Stock vs Demi Glace — When to Use Which
This is an important distinction. Salsus stocks are seasoned and ready to use as they are — as the liquid base for soups, risottos, braises, poaching, and any recipe that calls for stock. They are not designed to be reduced down into sauces. Reducing a seasoned stock concentrates the salt and seasoning, which quickly becomes overpowering.
For sauce-making, use the demi glaces. A demi glace is a concentrated, reduced stock — already intensely flavoured with a thick, glossy consistency. It's designed to be the foundation of pan sauces, gravies, and classical French sauces. A spoonful of beef or chicken demi glace deglazed into a hot pan after searing a steak or roasting a chicken produces a restaurant-quality sauce in minutes. This is the single most useful product in the collection for elevating everyday cooking.
Terre Exotique Bases & Pastes
We also carry a selection of Terre Exotique cooking bases and pastes. The chicken, fish, and veal bases are concentrated flavour pastes — stir a spoonful into water for a quick stock, or use directly in sauces and marinades for added depth. The tandoori paste is a ready-to-use Indian spice paste for marinading meat, fish, and vegetables. The garlic paste provides the convenience of prepared garlic with a clean, natural flavour — useful for dressings, spreads, and quick cooking where fresh garlic prep isn't practical.
Delivery
Salsus stocks and demi glaces are frozen products — store in the freezer on arrival and defrost as needed. Terre Exotique bases and pastes are ambient and shelf-stable. All orders are shipped via express courier service in insulated packaging — orders placed before 2pm are dispatched the same day. Select your preferred delivery date at checkout. For orders over £225, weekday delivery is complimentary.
