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[leapetra]

Except for the adding of the candies part, you have the best way to make broth. Do you use bones straight from the butchers, or do you use leftovers, like from a roast. I wonder if that would make a difference in the meaty flavor.

[cool!]

although I am not a vegetarian, I would be more comfortable eating Jello made from Vege Gelatin. Would that be possible?

[crestind]

I have no idea how to extract it from plants, only from animal products. I assume it's much more complicated. lol is the 2nd picture scaring everyone? That is what most gelatin is made from.

[cool!]

Well, I sort of meant using already-made gelatin, but that would be not conforming to the homemade part.

[crestind]

Yeah that would work better and it won't have food coloring. Although I don't know where that could be purchased.

[cool!]

Yeah... I used it to make freezer jam. I just mushed up raspberries with the vege gelatin (I think it is made from seaweed) Put it on bread, it was pretty good. But I dont remember where I got it.

[cool!]

Hehe Raspberries are spelled funny!

[nerdnurture]

How did pink Italian Ice turn the stuff blue?? This looks so gross. I'd rather just eat the pork and the Italian Ice separately, but as a science geek, the experiment looks like a lot of fun!

[crestind]

Yeah I just need to figure out a way to treat the pork to remove the flavor. Then it would taste awesome. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anything online :(

[crestind]

It didn't- the lighting and color of bowl just makes the color look off. It's more of a grayish pink lol. Pink + grey from the gelatin.

[!Andrew_Modder!]

hmm... wanted to try something like this, but honestly if i did this i would just use unflavored jello powder and then add my stuff to it, so it wouldent be meaty or 'sloopy'

[PKM]

"Typically, extraction involves a pretreatment process to ensure high quality of the final gelatin product, but this method skips directly to extraction." "Overall, this random little gelatin extraction experiment yielded a rather meaty flavored Jello" I can't say I'm entirely surprised, to be honest. I would imagine some sort of quick treatment to get any remaining meaty bits off (boil vigorously for a few minutes and then wash the bones to remove meat) could improve matters. You said the mixture was slightly translucent- a finer filtering probably wouldn't hurt. Also, if there was still meat left I would imagine it would tend to stick to the fatty part of the resultant stew, so perhaps leaving the mixture to cool and separate, removing any fat and then using what is left might help? I used to refer to Haribo and similar gelatin-based sweets as "boiled pig's feet" but I never really appreciated just how short the distance is :)

[crestind]

Actually I completely forgot the fat removal step, so thank you for bringing that up. Also, removing excess meat is a good suggestion, and I will add that. I appreciate your comments! I will try to refine the technique the second time around.

[Patrik]

"Free from artificial colorings and flavors"... except for the italian ice and candies'.

Try adding some juice concentrate instead...

[crestind]

Edited* Yeah juice concentrate would work. Actually, the Italian ice was colored with beet juice :P