Comment on Given gelatin's source, it makes more sense as a savory dish than a dessert
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI make chicken jello (from chicken skin and bones) for my cat all the time, it only takes an hour.
Comment on Given gelatin's source, it makes more sense as a savory dish than a dessert
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI make chicken jello (from chicken skin and bones) for my cat all the time, it only takes an hour.
CountVon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s not pure gelatin though. It’s a mix of gelatin from the breakdown of proteins, and juices from the chicken. Great for your cat without a doubt, and absolutely worth putting in home made soups or stews, but not something you’d want to use to make a wobbly dessert! Getting pure gelatin (i.e. all broken down peptides and virtually no remaining muscle protein) takes either days of careful boiling and straining, or a controlled industrial-chemical process. Gelatin was a fancy-chef ingredient when it took days in the kitchen to produce it with relative purity, but now you can buy Jell-O powder with pocket change because we make gelatin at scale using an industrial process.