What can I do with chicken fat?

[Cloo]

We're in the process of making some Japanese-style chicken stock and the house smells lush - apparently we'll get a good chunk of chicken fat out of it as well and I'm not sure what to do with it. Might it be good for making chips? Preparing any dishes? Any suggestions welcome.

 

[Idaho]

I was going to suggest something, but it sounded too schmaltzy.

 

[Epona]

I would think chips or roasties.
When I'm cooking solo and don't have to worry about meat juices/fat on the veg, I cook the potatoes in the same dish as my chicken leg and the fat coming off the leg gives a lovely flavour and crispiness to the roasties - so yes I'd be inclined to keep the fat and do something potato-related with it.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Can add something the gravy.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Leave it outside and set up a camera to see which animals it attracts.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Leave it outside and set up a camera to see which animals it attracts.

Rats.

Actually that's unfair. In our last house our cats were coming home with big chunks of meat. We were worried they were stealing it from a neighbour, but we found out several months later the neighbour was leaving it out for the badgers...

 

[Silas Loom]

Kneidlach!

 

[Saul Goodman]

Rats

Rats celebrate Christmas, given the chance.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Spread it on bread like bread and dripping.

 

[Silas Loom]

Spread it on bread like bread and dripping.

And then add a scrape of marmite.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Soup innit?

 

[Lurdan]

Spread it on bread like bread and dripping.

Not so fond of chicken dripping. Much preferred beef.

You could always dance to it

 

[xenon]

Candles. Actually no. I think it’s generally not good for much. Drink it?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Apparently you can make biofuel from it. Cloo might have to build a chemical plant in her back yard though.

 

[BassJunkie]

I save any fat from cooking - chicken, beef, lamb, in a jar in the fridge. Then when I come to roast potatoes or veg (for instance, yesterday) I use that.

I used to throw fat in the bin, and then go to the shops to buy goose fat (for instance). Then I had an epiphany.

 

[xenon]

I remember having a good sip of some sort of meat fat when I was a kid. My mum had cooked a roast dinner and obviously put the fat in a mug. Passing through the kitchen, as he had to do to get to the bathroom I saw it on the side and took a sip. I thought

I save any fat from cooking - chicken, beef, lamb, in a jar in the fridge. Then when I come to roast potatoes or veg (for instance, yesterday) I use that.

I used to throw fat in the bin, and then go to the shops to buy goose fat (for instance). Then I had an epiphany.

No one sells chicken fat though. For a reason.

 

[Silas Loom]

No one sells chicken fat though. For a reason.

What are you talking about, any butcher round our way does, and it’s available from hundreds of places online.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Add flour to make a roux and then add some of the stock to make soup?

 

[StoneRoad]

main thoughts would be to use it up roasting veggies, or add a little to anything that requires fats to carry spices.

 

[The39thStep]

Fried bread or croutons in it with a bit of crushed garlic is good

 

[WouldBe]

Fat balls for the birds.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Get extremely shiny hair ?

 

[ouirdeaux]

 

[maomao]

Coat your body in it then swim the channel.

 

[Monte]

I save any fat from cooking - chicken, beef, lamb, in a jar in the fridge. Then when I come to roast potatoes or veg (for instance, yesterday) I use that.

I used to throw fat in the bin, and then go to the shops to buy goose fat (for instance). Then I had an epiphany.

How much fat do you get from an epiphany?

 

[trabuquera]

Roast potatoes or use it as the fat to fry the onions/garlic/carrots/celery off with when starting any soup or stew.
And btw: leftover chicken skin should ALWAYS be crisped up for poultry scratchings. unreasonably delicious cook's privilege.

 

[8ball]

Roast potatoes or use it as the fat to fry the onions/garlic/carrots/celery off with when starting any soup or stew.
And btw: leftover chicken skin should ALWAYS be crisped up for poultry scratchings. unreasonably delicious cook's privilege.

I endorse this post.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

How much fat do you get from an epiphany?

Depends on on how enthusiastic it is

 

[Spymaster]

Coat your body in it then swim the channel.

I seem to remember an old wives' tale that rubbed on the chest, chicken fat is a cure for colds.

 

[moomoo]

Fat balls for the birds.

I’d do this. Mix some bird seeds into it and hang them in the garden.