today we're gonna render duck fat
a few days ago we harvested 13 male ducks and as we were processing the
Ducks we decided to keep a bag of all of the fat that we were taking off of the
Ducks so that means we get to render some duck fat duck fat is this
incredible substance that is absolutely phenomenal for cooking and if you have a
whole bunch of it it's really easy to make so let's go get the duck look at
this stuff there's a lot of it ah maybe feels like two pounds maybe two pounds
of duck fat yeah you can see there's actually some feathers as I said in a
previous video we didn't do a great job plucking but that's gonna be okay
because when we strain the duck fat the feathers will get sifted out I'm gonna
use our Dutch oven here to render the duck fat you don't want to add too much
but just a little bit
bring it up to a boil the purpose of the water is to keep the duck fat from
sticking and burning against the pig oh I want to show you to what I got on
the back burner here so you might notice this pot here so inside this pot you'll
see a whole bunch of duck duck toenail you notice they sort of incomplete and
as I pull off the lid notice they deflate pretty quickly I
feel very strongly about trying to use absolutely all the parts or at least as
many of the usable parts of the duck as possible so doing things like making
stock out of their feet and rendering duck fat that to me makes the the
sacrifice that the animal made to give me food feel that much better so that's
why you're seeing me put so much effort into you know cooking down things and
Plus this is gonna give us some delicious delicious food so our water is
starting to boil and bubble a little bit let's turn this guy down just a bit get
it a nice low flame now nice so that's like that out of the bag
pouring it in
the trick is you want this low heat very very low do not want to cook your fat
you just want to render it down and liquid fire get all that yeah like I
said don't worry about those feathers we're gonna take care of those a little
duck ducks are difficult animals applause for doing this at home so have
a little empathy here for me we're just gonna let that cook down so while we're
waiting for the fat to render down let me show you this Alison was out in the
garden this morning and she harvested the delicata squash look at these things
delicata squash is so good
Allisyn get annoyed by the feathery bitch she's cutting out the feathers you
should plan to stir it every couple of minutes just to make sure nothing sticks
to the side of the pot the idea is you want it to render so it's cooking really
really slowly and essentially liquefying all the fats the fats are the good stuff
that's what you're gonna offer there's so much cooking in here right now it
smells like duck cooked duck a little bit that is looking pretty much entirely
rendered down good duck bet in there all right all right so now that we've
rendered down all the duck fat it's time to pour it off to pour it off what I'm
gonna do is pour it through this strainer and then pour it into this pot
I might end up straining it twice we'll see how many of the feathers and crap
that's in there and impurities get through a lot of people actually will
use cheesecloth unfortunately we do not have any cheesecloth so we are
improvising here today
get it all out
that worked pretty good would you look at that
that's good duck fat we got going there now that I have strained it I'm gonna
pour to store it here Lee I don't make a mess I am such a klutz God you look at
that I'm terrible at pouring stuff
hope Alison doesn't notice according to this line here
we have exactly two and a half cups of duck fat there you go so there you have
it that's our duck fat fat with 13 ducks raised out on our pasture if you're
curious about us processing the Ducks be sure to check out this video and if
you're curious about other things check out this I hope you've enjoyed this
video and I'm gonna go make something with this wonderful duck fat maybe some
french fries or something I don't know