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Can chicken skeleton be made edible?
Chicken bones have a tendency to 'splinter' when 'mashed' (as in chewed upon), which is why you never give chicken bones to a dog. This applies equally to humans, if we gnaw on a chicken bone it is ...
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What's the beef cut with solid, thick bone?
You're doing it wrong™.
Your question is, essentially, "What code-word should I use to tell my butcher to give me a cut of beef with properties X, Y and Z?" Don't do that. Just go to your ...
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Is there any advantage to cooking steak on the bone?
Well, many steak experts have held for years that bone-in steak just tastes better, something about that marrow being good.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt from Serious Eats tested that theory.
He found that the ...
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Can chicken skeleton be made edible?
Pressure cookers will quickly soften most chicken bones. We make stock with our chicken carcasses in a pressure cooker, and the resulting bones can be crushed with fingers, no splintering.
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What's the beef cut with solid, thick bone?
If you are looking for a bone-in cut of beef for an aesthetic purpose then it would be hard to do better than beef shin, also known as shank. It has a good, strong bone with a cavity and the bone will ...
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What's the beef cut with solid, thick bone?
I believe an arm roast is what you are after:
For cooking purposes note that this is a "roast" (and not just a 'big honk'in steak') and is suitable for a low & slow cook time in a crock pot but ...
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Can chicken skeleton be made edible?
Absolutely!
My wife makes her own dog food out of 1 Lb of rice, 1 Lb of carrots, and the trimmings of 1 whole chicken. After she breaks down the chicken for the meat that the family will eat during ...
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How to cook a fish to make its bone as soft as those in sardines?
The USDA released a paper on the effects of cooking on 'fish bones softening', and you can find it if you search online...they tested pressures of 15, 20 and 25 psi (which gave them temperatures of ...
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How many times can you reuse bones to make broth?
There's a specific term for reusing ingredients for stock twice: remouillage (which literally means a "rewetting"). Usually this "second stock" is not used directly for broth, as it has significantly ...
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Can I make bone broth with bones without marrow?
What you're proposing is similar to 'remouillage' ('rewetting'; sometimes called 'second stock'). It's a stock made from bones that have already been used to make stock.
It may not be quite as ...
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how do I remove partially-disintegrated sediment/tiny-bones from stock?
Straining might work, but you may need to use a process known as "decanting":
Let the stock sit until any sediment falls to the bottom.
Remove the good liquid, avoiding the sediment at the bottom.
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What to do with soft chicken bones after making bone broth?
No.
Bone is not typically considered fit for human consumption. Cooked, they become dangerous. They are brittle and sharp and can puncture the intestines(source). Uncooked they become a pathogen risk, ...
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What to do with soft chicken bones after making bone broth?
Paitan broth
Depending on how long you cooked your bone broth, your chicken carcass still might have some flavor. After straining your first broth, add fresh water and more aromatics to the pot. Boil ...
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Is the red substance leaking out of the ham bone blood or marrow?
From the information you have given, I am almost certain that what you are describing is the bone marrow, found inside the pig equivalent of the femur bone. The bone marrow of pork has a very rich and ...
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Soups: Can I leave bones in indefinitely?
I always leave bones in stews and stocks, even when freezing. I don't think there is anything in bones that would accelerate spoilage, specially after being cooked for so long in high temperatures.
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Can I use short rib bones alone to make beef stock?
Yes, you absolutely can make stock from the bones. In fact, I used to be a bit mystified at people using "meaty" bones, since I first read about making stock from the bones.
The method for making ...
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How does one break long bones for broth?
A hacksaw (used for cutting metal) is a relatively inexpensive hand tool. Keep a blade set aside for food use only, or buy a new one if you don't use it frequently for that purpose. That's good for ...
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Animal Stock from Vegetable Stock
I'm not certain what you are asking?
Are you wanting to start a vegetable stock and use it as a base for the bone stock at a later time ?
IMO that would work.
Do a vegetable stock when you have ...
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Overnight cooking: Is sous-vide safer than electrical oven?
On top of the stove the issue is boiling dry. At that point the temperature can rise almost unchecked. This will result in unpleasant fumes at best, flames at worst. Even in the latter case, because ...
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Why is the meat closer to the bones tastes better?
This contains a nice explanation of why meat is juicy and tasty, and it is due to the presence of fat and conjunctive tissue in the muscles, as well as brining and marinating.
If you take a look at ...
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Browning bones in a skillet
Depending on what kind of stock pot or soup pot you intend to use, you can just brown the bones right in the bottom of the pot. I don't think my mom ever put bones in the oven to make soup.
Put a ...
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Is there any advantage to cooking steak on the bone?
It definitely doesn't make cooking easier. A bone acts as a heat-sink and a heat-reflector, and has the effect of slowing down cooking around it. That's not really a problem, but you do need to take ...
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Is there any advantage to cooking steak on the bone?
An excellent article grilled-ribeye-bone-boneless
What they found and consistent with my experience is the meat is less cooked near the bone due to thermal properties of the bone. Like a full ...
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Do these fish have bones, and are they dangerous?
Buy a iron skillet and you can cook your fish over open fire in you yard. No cost other than scrounging some wood. Use a piece of heavy aluminum foil as a lid. Adjust temperature by height of pan ...
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Are there any fish bones which are edible without canning or pressure cooking?
Sprat and even larger fish like small jack mackerels (up to 10 cm length) are typically eaten with their spine bones when fried. The fins and heads are removed though.
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Can I freeze beef bones and use them to make a broth later on?
Yes, you can. The advantage, as you point out, is that you can collect the bones until you have enough to make a flavorful stock. They freeze well, but will last even longer (avoiding freezer burn) ...
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Is the transparent thin layer on top of my broth gelatin?
That's probably fat, which congeals (and sometime solidifies, depending on how much) at the surface of cold broths and stocks. Gelatin will often be distributed throughout, and if there in sufficient ...
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How to preserve bone broth?
You cannot do this safely without a pressure canner (not pressure cooker). Freezing is probably your safest and easiest option, if you don't want to invest in a pressure canner. To save space, cool ...
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How to preserve bone broth?
When canning to make shelf-stable finished product, you must follow tested recipes directly to ensure proper preservation -- following both the method and processing time carefully.
To preserve stock/...
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How to preserve bone broth?
Using the answer space to provide translation of the German government document.
The document is from the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment -
a body under public law of the German federal ...
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