Making Chicken Stock

JackD201

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I subscribe to the "odds and ends" version of making chicken and vegetable stock.

I have a couple of plastic bags in the freezer. One I toss chicken bones (when deboning thighs) / wing tips / carcasses of roasted chickens into, the other, I toss veggie ends into - the woody parts of asparagus, carrot peels, broccoli stems, etc. When the bags get large enough, I make stock - which I cool and then freeze in small containers for later use. The addition of herbs comes later in what ever soup / stew I am cooking that the stock goes into.

I have bags of pacific crawfish and black tiger prawn heads and shells in the freezer for use in making stock later used for bisques or sauces. I think using a pressure cooker on these would be a great idea!
 

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My ex-wife spray painted the kitchen ceiling with the Vita-Mix when she had it running high speed without the cover and dropped the spoon she was using [for some unknown reason] to stir the smoothie she was making, but I still like the Vita-Mix! :p :p

thats hilarious those things were like blenders on roids. my parents bought one like 40 years ago at the county fair. the demo that cinched the deal was a soup a smoothie and ice cream all three made within 15 mins.
 

Keith_W

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I have bags of pacific crawfish and black tiger prawn heads and shells in the freezer for use in making stock later used for bisques or sauces. I think using a pressure cooker on these would be a great idea!

I wouldn't. Making fish or shellfish stock only requires 20 minutes on the boil. Overboiling seafood stock risks extracting too much Calcium, which will give you a metallic chalky flavour. It will also kill the delicate seafood flavour.
 

JackD201

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Wow thanks for the tip! I'm a stone former (Calcium Oxylate). You may have just saved me an attack!
 

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