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How a Butcher Makes Stock

What to study

Identity & Self-Relevance

  • Most home cooks make stock from a leftover chicken carcass.
  • Here a butcher turns a tower of cut marrow bones into a tower of rich stock.
  • The title promises his method, not a home cook's, so you want to know what he does differently.
How the packaging works
Title

'How a Butcher' leads with the role, so strangers who don't know Nigel still trust him, and 'Makes Stock' is a job home cooks already do.

Thumbnail

The LEWIS apron and the Gourmet Sausages board behind say real butcher's shop, and two matching towers, raw bones and tubs of stock, show the whole change left to right.

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When you're a professional teaching something home viewers already do, lead the title with your job role. Show the raw ingredients and the finished result stacked side by side, so the scale you work at is obvious.

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The transferable lesson

Lead with the role, and show the pro's scale.

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