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Old 11-05-2014, 02:35 PM   #1393
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
That's very weird. The gelatin comes from hooves and bones--that's where actual packets of gelatin come from--so if you just boil meat with no bones you should never get gelatin. On the other hand, it doesn't take much bone to gelatinize even a big pot of soup, and there is a little gelatin in cartilage, so maybe there was a chunk of cartilage still attached to the turkey breast.
I think I see where the confusion is - it was a bone in turkey breast that I roasted and cleaned off. This was definitely a hunk of bone with some meat and I left the icky parts and skin on while simmering.
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