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Default How to render chicken fat?

On Sat, 03 May 2014 03:32:30 -0500, Alan Holbrook >
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> Where do you get enough chicken fat to render these days? The packaged
> chicken in supermarkets is pretty well trimmed, and whenever I go to a
> butcher shop and ask them to save me some, they always take my phone
> number, promise to call when they have a pound or two, and then I never
> hear from them.


I buy skin on bone in thighs in 4-5 pound packages at the grocery
store - then I skin and bone them at home. I save the skins to render
and save the bones (in the freezer) until I have enough to make a pot
of stock. So, I kill three "birds" with one package of thighs.


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