utilizing whole chicken at slaughter? rec reading?

[feathersnuggles]

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Thanks for the info, I've always wondered if those raccoon/coyote sacrifices would bring them in closer, for more living sacrifices. I guess "the further, the better."

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I'd use butter, beef fat, or lard, for pie crust. The chicken fat isn't quite as solid as those are, at room temp. But chicken fat it's yummy for sauteing.

 

[galanie]

Chicken fat also makes great soap lol. If I'm going to save it, I'll put the fat to the side when cutting up chickens and then put it in the oven till it's all melted. If you don't have much other stuff in there then it's pretty easy to separate from the bits of skin or whatever at that point then pour it into something and put it in the fridge to harden up.

 

[booker81]

I love chicken fat for potatoes as a sub for butter. Would be good in rice too.

 

[kfacres]

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which of those do you think is healthier?

 

[EggsForIHOP]

I grew up with and was close friends with a girl whose family was Jewish - when it came to chicken fat they called it "schmaltz" and since they didn't eat pork her mom fried everything in chicken fat instead of lard when a recipe called for lard...MMM....the food was very good at their house, I loved to be there at meal time!

I usually leave as much fat possible in the birds I process, I don't know if they really turn out more tender roasted that way or not...but maybe with this batch of meaties I will collect and render some schmaltz and get her mom's recipe for fried chicken...they also used it like butter with baked potatoes because they followed all the dietary laws of their faith and didn't mix meat and dairy, so if you wanted a baked potato with your steak you didn't get cheese on it or butter - but it was still some of the best food ever! ...oh how I miss her mama's cooking!

 

[booker81]

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which of those do you think is healthier?

Either one is better than margarine! I trust the chicken or the cow more than I do a lab made "food"

 

[kfacres]

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which of those do you think is healthier?

Either one is better than margarine! I trust the chicken or the cow more than I do a lab made "food"

that's kinda the direction I was headed...