Chicken feet

[Recursion]

Responses in a GD thread surprised me. I'm so used to making stock with chickens' feet I didn't realize a lot of people have never seen them in grocery stores. Maybe I just live in a highly Asian and Latin neighborhood?

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	I have bought chicken feet
	3 (50%)
	I have seen them in the store but not bought them
	1 (17%)
	I have never seen them in a store
	2 (33%)
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[Denninmi]

1. They make great stock

What is the big deal? I bet they are used commercially in food in some way.

[Recursion]

6. I make stock with them weekly

a pack of chicken feet and a pack of chicken necks, plus any bones I have left over from the last time I cooked chicken, if it was recent enough.



There was a GD post about a woman who freaked out over finding a foot in a pack of chicken breasts. I would have thought "cool, free chicken foot". Unless it was being sold by weight, in which case that is a rip-off.

[Denninmi]

11. Me too.

I'd just chuck it in a small Ziplock in the freezer until I needed it.

[Ptah]

2. I used to raise and butcher chickens.

We didn't use the feet for food.

[Recursion]

7. Lots of people use them for stock, though. A good chicken veloute or fond blanc

will come from stock made from feet.

[Ptah]

8. I did not know that.

I learned something new, now I can nap.

[Xyzse]

3. I've used it before.

Not my favorite thing, but ah well.

I play with gizzards more, as well as the heart.

[rrneck]

4. Saw them in Hong Kong. Never here. nt

[hunter]

5. Most supermarkets sell them where we live.

It's a small minority of cultures worldwide that don't cook with them.

I don't eat much meat anymore, but I'd use chicken feet in various stews. My wife has stopped eating any meat. But we can't claim to be any sort of vegetarians because we have dogs. There are many sorts of animal parts in dog food.

[truegrit44]

9. I feed my dogs raw meat and use lots of chicken

I found them only one time a few years ago and they were cheap and I bought a ton of them for my dogs, never found them since tho...........

[LWolf]

10. Other:

I don't know if I've ever seen them in a store, but I see them every day on my chickens.

[bluesbassman]

12. Other: Had chicken foot soup at a Chinese restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown area.

This was years ago when I was a kid. Damn thing was right there in the middle of the bowl and I could've sworn it was twitching at me. Freaked me out a bit, but I was raised to finish the food put in front of me, so I ate it. Was pretty good IMSMC.

[Puzzledtraveller]

13. Andrew Zimmern loves them

[KamaAina]

14. The star of the menu at Dick Morris Roasters