Update on Coffee-Urn Stockpot

Well, it wasn't until tonight that I had cheap chicken parts for our first urn-stock effort. WOW! It worked so well!

When I tapped off the stock it was totally clear and no sediment in it. The glass jars were too hot to hold, so I opened a drawer, set the jar in the shallow drawer, and aimed the spigot over the jar. I tipped the pot to get the last of the dregs out through the spigot, and then dumped the whole thing out into the trash. Only about a tablespoon of stock had not drained. None of the basket's contents had escaped outside the basket.

I washed the urn while it was still hot, with hot soapy water. I let the soapy water drain out the spigot to clean it. After a good hot rinse I filled the urn with almost 2 gallons of hot tap water, to drain out from the spigot and rinse the inside of that. The last drops were tasted-- no chicken, no grease, no soap.

A lovely surprise was that when I tapped off the stock, the last jarful got all the grease!!! Grease floats on top; the spigot taps the stock from the bottom. So the grease is the last out of the spigot. Next time I'll tap directly into an old muffin pan and freeze it for big stock-blocks, since now I know they'll be pre-de-fatted.

~S~