Cycleops
Legendary Member
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- Accra, Ghana
A good idea for the cat but not for a dog, chicken bones are sharp and dogs can choke on them.Here, some of the chicken also ends up in the cat.
Food thrift - what to do with leftover roast chicken and carcass?
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T4tomo
Legendary Member
Yep Ramen /noodle soup is a favourite here. roast on sunday, cold chicken salad monday - ramen tuesday.
I also did a lovely beef ramen the other week with the bits of rare cold topside of beef in bottom of the bowl and the cooked ramen poured over so it didn't overcook and ruin the texture of the beef.
I usually spatchcock it first if it's a whole chicken (although usually leg portions or thighs these days, less hassle, more meat per £ and easier to do variety of marinades.)
Throw the back bone in too usually. Cooks quicker, easier to keep breasts moist as its flatter, and I find the deboning and stripping bit is quicker and easier after.
Throw the back bone in too usually. Cooks quicker, easier to keep breasts moist as its flatter, and I find the deboning and stripping bit is quicker and easier after.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
I've only ever used carcasses as stock; can't think of any other uses apart from composting. As others have said, strip it all down with your fingers and snap the bones up for full effect. You can get a lot of thin stock, or continue to reduce it down if you want smaler amounts of jellied concentrate. I used to freeze stock done in this way but I don't plan or have the space to do so now....until next week when we move house and hopefully I'll be a lot more prepared with such things
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I don't give the bones, just the meat. Bones, once the stock is made, ends up either in the green bin (summer) or in the fire (winter).
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Ours goes in the field at the back of the house for the foxes and badgers.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Same re cheese. Pray, *what* is leftover cheese?
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
No 'leftover' cheese in this house Grommet.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Quite right. I strip any good meat off but avoid the oily stuff..?it goes right through him. No bones of course.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Something that happens in a really bad nightmare?
winjim
Smash the cistern
Handy video here on how to cut up a whole chicken to make the most of it.
https://growitcatchitcookit.com/2017/10/25/chicken-crown/
Crown goes in to roast, leg meat in the freezer for other dishes, remains get used for stock. Ten minute job.
https://growitcatchitcookit.com/2017/10/25/chicken-crown/
Crown goes in to roast, leg meat in the freezer for other dishes, remains get used for stock. Ten minute job.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Given that I prefer the limbs while my wife will only eat the breast, ours just go in the oven whole to be roasted.
None ever gets wasted.
Time Waster
Veteran
Chicken bones to the dog? I didn't think that was a good idea due to choking on them. A friend lost her dog through a wood splinter from sticks thrown for it. Chicken bones splinter so you could end up with the b same, slow death. The splinter got into the airways which triggered fluid production and a very slow drowning of her dog. The splinter was too far down to remove.
Sad case but she had been warned by a few of us. The risk this could happen is why we make very sure any chicken we give our dog is bone free.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
These ones are fabulously expensive but there are more affordable ones available....
