Hi Tom, Your recipe is probably from the 1970s or 80s when crock pots were first introduced and when people used to buy their meats from a friendly butcher who owned his or her own shop or worked for a supermarket. Now most meat arrives at the market already having been cut and trimmed. I have never -- in the past 10 or 15 years -- prepared a piece of meat that needed to be trimmed of fat. A little fat is a good thing -- that is what will carry all that delicious flavor into the gravy or sauce. So, just plop that roast into your slow cooker along with the other ingredients, follow the other directions in the recipe, and enjoy! Penny
On 1/11/13, Sherri Crum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Good for you, trying to build your skills. > > I would say that trimming the fat just gets rid of a lot of grease/fat > in the finished meal. > > You are probably able to tell by feel/or sight, where there is fat on > the outer surface of the roast. Just take a knife and cut the fat away > as much as you can from the outer surface. That just gets rid of it so > you don't have all that fat in the cooking liquid. > > Good luck with this, and all your future cooking endeavors. > > Hope this helps, > > Sherri > > > > > On 1/11/13, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi. I'm brand new here. >> I have so little experience cooking but am to the point where I really >> need >> to be trying to get better in the kitchen. >> I do have a question. >> >> I'm trying to make a pork roast in the crock pot. This will be a pork >> shoulder with some carrots and potatoes and such. The thing is that the >> recipe suggests that I trim the fat off the roast. I've never done that >> before. What's a way to trim the fat of this roast? Is it necessary? >> Thanks. >> Tom >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
