subject: How to Make Your Own Vegetable Stock at Home [print this page] The soup isle of your local supermarket is filled with various brands of ready-to-use vegetable stocks and broths. To prepare your stock, all you have to do is to purchase one of those cans and place it in a microwave for about 5-10 minutes. However, if you have read this far, you already know how easy it is to learn how to make your own vegetable stock at home. All you need is to have some patience to go through the whole process, which lasts merely 45 minutes. By doing so you will not only be able to make a vegetable stock which will be much healthier, fresher and more flavorful than the ready-to-use ones, but, you will also be learning the basic cooking methods and techniques as well.