You can easily make your own “Calcium Fortified Chicken Broth” by adding about 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar to the water when you boil chicken bones etc for soup stock. The vinegar will leach the calcium out of the bones, but you won’t be able to taste it in the finished product.
It’s like that science experiment that we used to do in Jr. High-you know, where you’d soak a chicken bone in Vinegar for a day or two, then when you took it out you could bend it like rubber because all of the calcium had been leached away. . .
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I still love this tip! I remember when you said it in your “rubber chicken” video and I have been doing it ever since. Thanks for posting it again!
This is awesome! I recently started making chicken broth from bones & I love it. It's 20 times better. This really helps! I drink a lot of coffee so I have to make sure to supplement my calcium, thank you!
I have never, ever heard of this before! What a brilliant and valuable idea!
(And we never did that experiment in my high school–sounds like fun!)
Even us foodies miss stuff like this–thanks for this post.
Seriously? That’s actually really, really cool!
one word description for thie ……excellent!!!
awesome tip. I have never heard of this. I am planning on making a turkey soon and will surely be adding a little to the broth. Thanks
Great idea! And it dosn’t change the taste of the stock?
Actually, the same priciple works if you need to clean the mineral deposits out of your coffee pot or washing machine or whatever. Every so often I run a pot of part water, part vinegar through my coffee pot. The vinegar removes the mineral deposits (like calcium) from hard water. You will actually see little white stuff floating in the water when it comes out of the coffee pot. Same thing with running a load of just vinegar and water through your washing machine or dishwasher. Also, I have the spout on the fridge that lets you get a drink of cold, filtered water. We are too cheap to use the filters, but we use it to get chilled drinking water. Well, the water drips into the little tray, creating hard water build up. I just pour a little bit of white vinegar on the tray, let it sit for a minute, and wipe it off w/ a damp rag. Gets all that hard water build up right off. How’s that for a cheap cleaning trick?
What great info. Especially for us grandmas who don’t get enough calcium and need to be concerned about osteoporosis. Thanks for the tip!