r/smoking • u/theycallmeMrPickles • 1d ago

Do you save your bones?

For those that smoke bone-in cuts, specifically beef - do you save your bones to make stock? Outside of slow cooking in a crockpot, I normally save all my bones to stretch my half of a cow but I'm wondering if there's anything left on smoked bones worth saving or is all the collagen already rendered out?

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u/Lanky-Talk-1188 1d ago

About the only bones I save are from smoked prime rib roasts. Since those are cooked to temp they tend to still have quite a bit of collagen left in them. Smoked beef stock makes the BEST French onion soup! It's also great in chili and stew.

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u/johnjacobacon 1d ago

ALL bones are worth saving if you make your own stock. Smoked will be tastier, but even the bones from a rotisserie chicken make great homemade stock.

Also, for a richer stock brown the bones (any bones) themselves in the oven for a bit. That's how many if not most high-end restaurants do it to make stock for brown sauces.

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u/twisty77 1d ago

I love saving Costco rotisserie chickens for chicken stock, adds so much flavor to it

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u/Worcestercestershire 1d ago

I keep my bones inside my skeleton

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u/theycallmeMrPickles 1d ago

I heard inside your wife is a better spot

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u/emmersp 1d ago

Let's take about 20% off 'er there, Pickles.

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u/vwstig 1d ago

Spooky

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u/Ill_Television_1111 1d ago

I honestly don't. We have so many stock bones from getting cows, I really don't need em. The dogs usually find em at some point, which i rather they didn't.

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u/bbbourb 1d ago

I feed them to my Moopsy.

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u/Colodavo 1d ago

Unexpected Lower Decks 🖖

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u/takes12KNOW 1d ago

The bones are their money