How do you render chicken fat for cooking?

Question

Has anyone attempted to render chicken fat, also called schmaltz, as a form of cooking oil? How is it done?

Answer 1

I used to get mine from a supermarket which sold Rotisserie chickens. They throw all the fat out every day.

Answer 2

I've cooked with pork fat before never really thought to use chicken fat

Answer 3

Flavoursome, not flavorful. Come on, chaps.

Answer 4

- No butter
- No cartouche
WTF am I reading?!?

Answer 5

How to store and for how long :) ?

Answer 6

The best schmaltz is the fat you skim off the pot of chicken stock
The Best

Answer 7

I have always bought my chicken with skin still on so that I could fry it in its own fat

Answer 8

What would be good for the oven temp?

Answer 9

Ah... It is what my mother hates and always discards...

Answer 10

I thought schmalz was made with bacon. They still eat rendered and flavored bacon grease in Germany

Answer 11

A new narrator?

Answer 12

Could you please do one for beef tallow?

Answer 13

Tallow > Everything else

Answer 14

Not much of it tho

But id imagine its liquid gold it you ever get ahold of some

Answer 15

Interesting. When I think of "Schmalz" as a German, I think of pork fat.

Answer 16

Where in the world can you buy chicken skin by itself?!

Answer 17

Beef tallow works well also. Cheers from Virginia!

Answer 18

Schmaltz is a beautiful lipid to cook with.

Answer 19

Schmalz is porc fat. It is a german word and it is normally just the same as lard

Answer 20

Chicken fat goose fat Bacon fat pork fat goose fat animal fat in general as a substitute for butter or oil !!!