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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I use my huge pasta pot occasionally, without the insert, for making chicken stock. For pasta, I use a pot about half the size and perfect for cooking a pound of pasta. [/quote]

Chicken stock! That's actually a great use for it that I hadn't thought of.  With the insert, I mean. You could just lift the chicken out.

Which reminds me of another time when mil watched me make chicken soup once and was like, that's how you make it? I bring a pot of water along with a whole chicken to a boil. Simmer for a couple hours. Take out the chicken and pull apart. Put bones back in and simmer bones longer. Then I scoop out all the bones with a fine mesh skimmer, then add the other ingredients and add back the chicken and cook.

I asked her how she made it, she says she first cuts up the raw chicken, with bones, into small pieces. Then boils the chicken with onion, celery, carrots. Then she gets cheese cloth and a colander and another pot to pour out everything, to make sure she gets all the little pieces of cut up bones, and throws the veggies away. Then removed the bones by hand from the cut up chicken. And then rinses the chicken to remove leftover bones. And adds the rest of ingredients in and cooks.

So many extra steps and cookware used. I avoid cutting raw chicken if possible because I'm lazy and a salmonella freak and hate cleaning it.[/quote]

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