The only reason I usually don't eat the stuff from stock making is that I usually start out with leftover bones and veggie scraps, and things are pretty overcooked and bland by the time I'm done making stock with them!
I have no idea why it wouldn't be, especially if they say eating the marrow afterwards is so yummy. I already ate some. I am just asking to double check.
You know how all the whacky food ideas around make people cautious!
Thanks!
It is safe, sometimes I eat it if it hasn't cooked too long, or I will take big pieces off after it has cooked a while and save it to go back into soup after finishing cooking the stock.
It's safe but it's usually pretty tasteless. And, as a caution: do not let your dog woofle down all of the stock bits (ie including bones) unless there is only a little bit. Unless you live somewhere without poop pick-up bylaws. Just sayin'.
I do usually salvage marrow if I can, dump a bit of salt on it and eat it on toast. Yum.
Originally Posted by spughy
It's safe but it's usually pretty tasteless. And, as a caution: do not let your dog woofle down all of the stock bits (ie including bones) unless there is only a little bit. Unless you live somewhere without poop pick-up bylaws. Just sayin'.
Really? I always run any small bones, leftover meat or fat scraps, and veggies through the food processor and feed it to my dogs. They LOVE it. Actually, so does dd--she eats chicken stock leftovers all the time, I think the mushy leftover bones are really yummy for her.
Originally Posted by Ally'smom
Really? I always run any small bones, leftover meat or fat scraps, and veggies through the food processor and feed it to my dogs. They LOVE it. Actually, so does dd--she eats chicken stock leftovers all the time, I think the mushy leftover bones are really yummy for her.
Wow, your bones get that soft when you make stock? How long do you usually cook it for?
Originally Posted by Ally'smom
Really? I always run any small bones, leftover meat or fat scraps, and veggies through the food processor and feed it to my dogs. They LOVE it. Actually, so does dd--she eats chicken stock leftovers all the time, I think the mushy leftover bones are really yummy for her.
Oh, my dog loves it all right. But it makes her poop really weird and slimy. I don't think it's actually bad for her, it's just a big mass of bulk without much nutrition, since all the good stuff's in the broth, so it goes right through her.
And bones go mushy if you put vinegar in the stock - it leaches out the calcium and minerals (a good thing!) making your broth more nutritious, and the bones left in just sort of fall apart.
Originally Posted by spughy
And bones go mushy if you put vinegar in the stock - it leaches out the calcium and minerals (a good thing!) making your broth more nutritious, and the bones left in just sort of fall apart.
So how much vinegar do you use? I've yet to find a level where the stock doesn't taste like vinegar (Which DH can't stand) and yet it turns the bones soft. I suppose I could try following a recipe, but does anyone have suggested proportions?
Originally Posted by cheenya
So how much vinegar do you use? I've yet to find a level where the stock doesn't taste like vinegar (Which DH can't stand) and yet it turns the bones soft. I suppose I could try following a recipe, but does anyone have suggested proportions?
You really don't need very much. I usually put in maybe 1/4 cup at most for a big stock pot? I don't know, I never measure. My stock never tastes like vinegar.
I don't measure either, but about 1/4 cup might be right, maybe less. If you put it in at the beginning it cooks out I think, I have put it in later and still could smell it, but I opened the lid and let it simmer a while longer and it didn't taste like vinegar.
I always wondered this too about the veggies, every recipe for stock always says to throw away the veggies??? I think I saw somewhere though, that you could leave them in and puree them with a hand blender. I don't know what color it will come out, but I'm sure the taste would be fine
I don't use 'real' veggies in my stock; I use bits and pieces, odds and ends, like the ends of carrots and the root part of onions. So I don't eat 'em; but my chickens love them!
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