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Old 11-13-2000, 10:40 AM
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Wink Normally discarded material?

I'm always interested in chefs who use normally discarded matierial like, stems, roots, skins, bones, etc to cook with and flavor their dishes. What do you do?
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Old 11-13-2000, 02:27 PM
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Bones from roasted meats always go into the freezer for stock; if I bone something before I cook it, it goes into the freezer as well. Uncooked shrimp-shells go into the freezer for seafood stock. If we have leftover steamed crabs, we remove the lungs and freeze the rest for crab soup. I don't usually have enough veggie trimmings to amount to anything. If I think about it, I'll put poultry fat into the freezer (shmaltz!!), and if I do several roasts at a time, most of the drippings will go into the freezer as well. Parmesan rinds go follow the parade into the freezer to boost up soup or chicken stock that I know I'll use for risotto.
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Old 11-13-2000, 04:34 PM
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well there are so many things that are usable waste, e.g:

Bones for stock
Meat trimmings for mince
Cilantro roots for thai curries/guacomole etc
Parsley stalks for mirepoix
root veg offcuts for mirepoix
Onions offcuts for mirepoix
onion skins for brown stocks/demiglas
imperfect berris for coulis/fruit glazes
Bacon fat for terrines/pates
Rendered bacon fat for frying/soup flavours
Egg shells for brown stocks(helps to clarify)
Old bread for bread and butter puddings


Plenty more from where that came from.

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Old 11-15-2000, 09:31 PM
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Hi! I'm new to this board and happy to be here. One idea that some cooks seem to over look is that a lot of the kitchen waste can be afforded to the compost! Including veggies/fruits/egg shells/coffee grounds and all that extra "non-meat or dairy" stuff. When I complete a stock, of whatever kind, I sort through the "strainings" and make sure that the veggie matter gets to the compost. Just an idea!(Great compost when the time comes to grow those fantastic little salad greens or whatever.)
Thanks for the great site and all this incredible information.
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Old 11-15-2000, 09:43 PM
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