Indispensable Turkey Stock

Directions

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   ["Here we go.\r\nIn a very deep stock pot bring enough water to cover the turkey parts to a roaring boil. If your stock pot has a pasta maker insert, use that. It will help throughout the entire process.", "Blanch the bird. \r\nCarefully place the turkey parts into the water, and bring back to boil for roughly ten minutes. This is a critical step as it helps to remove a lot of the impurities from the bones If you're going to skip a step, skip the clarification later on, not this one. Discard the blanching liquid, rinse out your stock pot and go forth.", "Chop the veggies. \r\nBig, rough chops here, since we'll be straining everything out. Leave the peels on the carrots, onions, and garlic, unless this weirds you out. In that case, peel away.", "Saute the veggies. \r\nI usually do this in my stock pot and dump the mire poix out into the waiting pasta strainer with the turkey parts. However, if you have a large enough saute, feel free to dirty another dish. This is another critical step. It wakes the aromatics up and really gets them going. Overlook this one, and your finished product will likely be weak and lifeless like the turkey, and you'll have what basically amounts to turkey water.", "Stock it up!\r\nPut everything in the pot, veggies on top, and cover it with water, and get some heat under that baby! Now is the time to add the sage, thyme, peppercorns, and bay leaves you forgot to saute with the rest of the aromatics in the previous step.", "Simmer down now.\r\nDo not let that pot boil! It breaks down the ingredients and will undoubtedly render you a cloudy stock. A low and steady simmer wins this race. And it's a long race. Three to five hours long, to be exact.", "The waiting game.\r\nSo go find something else to do. Do some reading, sanitize the counter by the sink where you spilled half the blanching water, or have a few drinks. Whatever you do, don't go to sleep. Don't pass out because \"a few\"" means ten in your vocabulary. You do occasionally need to stir and make sure the pot isn't boiling or burning down your house.""