Meat

Just as when you’re making stock for soups or stews, boiling will cause soluble proteins and rendered fat to emulsify into the cooking liquid. By… Read More »Why Should You Not Boil Chicken Broth?

With boiling, any fat rendered by the meat or bones will be churned back into the broth instead of floating to the top where it… Read More »Why Is My Chicken Broth Greasy?

However, any backyard poultry can carry Salmonella germs that can make you sick. Always take steps to stay healthy around your flock. Backyard poultry, like… Read More »Are Backyard Chickens Less Likely To Have Salmonella?

Making chicken broth I usually use a rotisserie chicken carcass to make homemade broth, but any cooked chicken parts and/or a carcass will work. You… Read More »Can You Put Chicken Skin In Broth?

Consider the Chicken Instead of tasting flavorless and washed out, the chicken breast produced the cleanest-tasting stock, with the most intense chicken flavor. The thigh… Read More »What Part Of Chicken Makes The Best Stock?

But just as important, if you don’t skim it away, it will recycle back into the cooking stock and make it cloudy. What happens if… Read More »What Happens If You Don’T Skim Chicken Stock?

Modern broiler chicken breeds are very fast-growing, reaching a 5-pound market weight in five weeks, compared with a 4-pound market weight in ten weeks that… Read More »How Long Does It Take For A Chicken To Grow Without Hormones?

Chickens don’t take steroids or hormones. Because they can’t. The Food and Drug Administration actually prohibits the use of these growth enhancers in the billions… Read More »Are Meat Chickens Injected With Hormones?

A number of factors go into raising larger, healthier birds than ever before, but genetically modifying chickens to be larger isn’t one of them! There… Read More »Can Chickens Be Genetically Modified?

No Hormones Added Despite what you may hear, no artificial or added hormones are used in the production of any poultry in the United States.… Read More »Are Hormones Allowed In Chicken?