Cooking Tips: Use duck fat to sauté mushrooms or vegetables, to roast potatoes, in place of oil in salad dressings, and for pan-searing steaks and chops. Rub duck fat over the skin of lean game birds, chickens, or turkeys before roasting for a burnished, crispy finish. Mix duck fat with peanut oil in a 1:3 ratio for extra-tasty fried chicken. You’ve got to have duck fat to confit. Slow cook duck, chicken, or turkey legs, even garlic in duck fat for tender and tasty results. Unlike butter or olive oil, duck fat can be recycled several times, just strain the fat in a fine sieve and store it in the refrigerator. Duck fat also keeps well in the freezer. Take it out an hour before cooking to soften, or use a hot spoon to scrape off a portion.

Cooking Tips: Use demi-glace as a base for meat sauces, stocks, soups, and braises. For a delicious pan sauce in minutes, sweat some chopped shallots in pan-drippings, add fresh herbs and deglaze with demi-glace. Add a small knob of black truffle butter to finish. Mix one container of demi-glace in 2 cups of water and use in place of beef, lamb, or veal stock in your favorite recipes.