Okay. Last night I put a whole fryer in the crock pot with a bunch of potatoes, carrots, celery, onions, etc. Yes, I was bright enough to remove the giblets first. Anyhow, it’s been cooking all night and smells heavenly, and I have no idea how to actually get the chicken carcass out of the crock pot without leaving bones and gristle in the stew.
HALP!! Please.
pour it into a spaghetti strainer over a pot, and use your very talented fingers to remove the ickky parts, then dump the goodies and broth back into the crock pot:)
Use two big spoons and don’t rush. Be gentle and go slowly.
One of the things I make in a crock pot is ham hocks and blackeye peas. (Recipe: Soak blackeye peas overnight. Drain and rinse. Put blackeye peas and ham hocks in the pot. Cover with water. Cook.) Hamhocks have some little bones and cartilage in them, plus the thick skin and lot of fat. When it’s almost done, I remove the hamhocks and put them on a paper plate. I take off the skin and any fat that had not been rendered, and pick out all of the bones and cartilage that I can find. When I have seperated the meat from the other stuff, I put the meat back into the pot.
This is how I’d do it, except you might mush your veggies a bit–but, you’ll get everything you don’t want out.
[hijack] For some weird reason Hama, you were in my dream last night. All I remember is you were off to my side, making notes on a yellow legal pad, and you looked exactly like your LJ picture. I have no clue as to what I was doing, though. [/hijack]
Dumped it into a colander, put the veggies and broth back into the crock pot and used two plates - one for meat, one for bones/ickies - to pick the chicken apart. I mean, such as it was…it totally fell apart as we TOUCHED it. I’ve thrown in some garlic salt and celery salt and some more pepper, and this stuff is friggin’ heavenly.
Java: WEEEEEEEEEEEEIRD. I am not the stuff that dreams are made of. 
Ahem Oh yes you are!
[sub]Sorry, but I just couldn’t let a thread started by Hama go by without tossing in a flirt[/sub] 
next time ya might want to consider putting said item to be removed in a small net
I can’t imagine that anyone smart enough to figure out roast beef chicken has a cooking question too dumb for GQ.
FWIW, Hama, I make my chicken soup almost the same way - although I put the colander over a big bowl and dump the whole thing into it, put the broth back into pot and add the veggies at that time; then, I pick off the meat and toss it back into the pot.
Kin I have 'em?
{scurrying over to the corner to gnaw on the gizzards and neckbone}