Re: [london.food] Identifying Fat

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From: Joel Bernstein
Subject: Re: [london.food] Identifying Fat
Date: 11:07 on 29 Jan 2004
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:03:26AM +0000, Nigel Rantor wrote:
> Joel Bernstein wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:51:45AM +0000, Nigel Rantor wrote:
> >
> >>Ah, also, not quite on topic to the use/sotrage of fat, how about the 
> >>identificatino of it?
> >>
> >>I've only recently started cooking things I thought would be fairly 
> >>difficult, and having found them easy am branching out quickly.
> >>
> >>However...when attempting to drain the fat from the duck I was kind of 
> >>stymied by the fact that I couldn't really tell the fat from the juice 
> >>when they were hot, how am I meant to drain the fat off without the 
> >>juices?!?!
> >>
> >>I'm hoping ther is some crafty way that I am not being knowing of...yet...
> >
> >
> >Cool it. The fat will be the solid stuff on top ;)
> 
> *fnaar*
> 
> Yes, thank you. *shakes head*  :-)
> 
> How about when I want to make a gravy with the juices but drain off only 
> the fat?

I have a strange jug for removing fat from gravy - the spout is attached
to a pipe from the bottom of the jug - so you let it settle [and the fat
is on top], pour the gravy out, and stop when you only have the fat left
in the jug.

It looks a bit like this: [' ' = fat, 'x' = gravy, '/' = spout]
|    | / 
|xxxx|/
|xxxx/
+----+

Does that help? I can't remember where I got it - Cucina may sell
them...

/joel

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