Save Your Scraps!

   Scythrop Glowry on Feb 2 14:00:33

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I will add much more to this later , but presently I'm just going to say that a very good chicken broth may be made by simply adding water, salt, and the right scraps to a rotisserie chicken carcass and simmering all day. The right scraps: herb stems, onion peels (even the papery part), asparagus ends, carrot peels, turnip peels, and/or garlic skins.

Also, potato peels , one of the most commonly eaten scraps, are very bad for you, containing a lot of oxalates! On the other hand, if you have such resources, they make good fodder for the chickens or compost. .

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Carl Milsted, Jr on Feb 2, 2024 2:04 PM
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Potato peels are high in alkaloids.

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Scythrop Glowry on Feb 2, 2024 2:26 PM
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That too. 😉

"4. Potatoes

A medium baked potato has 97 milligrams of oxalates per serving. Much of this content is in the potato’s skin, which contains high levels of nutrients like fiber, vitamin C, and B vitamins."

- Foods High in Oxalates by WebMD

Thank you. I didn't know about the alkaloids.

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