Those who know me, know that I make some bad-assed Buffalo chicken wings. It’s a hobby of sorts. Well lately I’ve been saving the very tips of the wings (gross nasty parts you don’t want to eat) to make chicken soup. The idea is to boil the wing tips in water for a while, wait until everything breaks down, strain out the yucky chunks and VOILA! you’re left with a yummy yummy chicken broth. At least that’s the theory anyway…<\/p>\n
Things were progressing rather smoothly, I’d boiled the wing-tips for a couple hours, let everything cool down and strained the chunks of chicken bits from the broth. Unfortuantely the act of removing the chicken chunks caused all the yucky little fat droplets to mix back in with the broth. I’m not a big fan of fat so I figured I’d heat the broth again until the fats and oils coalesced on top, cool the whole thing down, and then skim off the hardened fats. Seems like a good idea, right?<\/p>\n
I cranked up the burner under the nearly full 8 quart stock pot, put on the lid, and went to my computer to pass some time. I found some interesting articles to read on Digg.com and then I found this really cool article about Flash and how it’s going to… Oh crap! I forgot all about the chicken broth! I rush back to the kitchen just in time to remove the pot from the burner and stop it from boiling over. Whew. That was a close one.<\/p>\n
And then for some bizarre reason (I blame the devil) I thought it might be a good idea to let the broth simmer a little longer on the stove, perhaps a slow simmer would gently coax the oils to the surface. I cranked the burner back up on “high”, set the pot on top of it and waited for the broth to begin boiling again. I intently watched the pot, waiting for the slightest sign of a bubble so I could turn the burner down to “low” and get back to my computer. I gazed at the pot atop the stove, waiting, waiting… waiting.<\/p>\n
And then all of a sudden, KA-FWUMP! In an instant<\/strong> the broth immediately comes to a raging boil and about 1\/2 a gallon of chicken broth erupts out of the pot and splatters everywhere. I believe the words that came out of my mouth at that very moment were “Holy F**king S**t Batman!”<\/p>\n I grabbed the pot, removed it from the burner and gawked at the unique devastation which can only be caused by a volcanic eruption of chicken. Chicken broth on the stove’s heating elements. Chicken broth under the heating elements. Chicken broth in the overhead vent. Chicken broth on the floor. Chicken broth in the toaster. Chicken broth on the refrigerator. Chicken broth leaking into the oven. Chicken broth, chicken broth, chicken broth! Damn it!<\/p>\n I’m not sure what happened but in the future I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting all of my chicken broth from a can. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The seemingly simple task of making chicken broth goes horribly wrong. I think I’ll stick to Buffalo chicken wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}