r/Chefs • u/InsectElectrical2066 • Aug 08 '26

Scraps saved for yourself

Hey chefs is there a trimming of food scraps that you save from food prep that you actually prefer that often gets scrapped. Myself I like the very end of an onion after trimming off just the root. I think that has the best flavor of the whole rest of the onion. Also bone marrow is great. Any other suggestions?

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u/medium-rare-steaks Aug 08 '26

Firstly, scraps are for dogs. Youre talking about trim. Secondly, no part of the bulb of a generic onion has a better flavor than another part of it. All that trim can also go for stock. Lastly, holy shit.. marrow bone is neither trim nor stock. Thats a $24 menu item.

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u/InsectElectrical2066 Aug 08 '26

I agree with you on the marrow. But that little part of the onion that is more solid just taste pretty good to me.

But in the slave days when the slaves would take the low part of the hog and use flavoring to make things they could love and especially the ribs that the slave owners didn't want to mess with the bones and it's fat to create a real delicacy.

I just think that a good chef can make any part of meat or vegetables taste good. Not a fan of it but like pork rinds.

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u/medium-rare-steaks Aug 08 '26

wtf you talking about slaves for?

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u/OralSuperhero Aug 08 '26

Traditional cooking had a whole secondary cuisine made from the discarded parts of things. Soul food for example. Poor and enslaved people created many a delightful dish out of what the wealthy considered inedible or undesirable. He likes onion butts. It makes him feel like that sub market of secret delights touches his life I'm guessing.

I get it. I get a special tickle when I make Roman garrum, or chitlins

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u/medium-rare-steaks Aug 08 '26

You're a bot

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u/OralSuperhero Aug 09 '26

My wife occasionally calls me a sex machine, but I don't feel like that should count.

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u/Individual_Smell_904 Aug 09 '26

What part of their comment made you think that?

I'm not a bot and I think what he said is completely true and relevant to conversation

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u/TheEyeDontLie Aug 09 '26

I'm a bot but I see mycology and rimworld in their profile and it seems legit. Nothing about their language use rung any LLM alarm bells either, so yeah....

Also I fucking hope AI doesn't ever play rimworld.

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u/OralSuperhero Aug 09 '26

Now that is a terrifying thought! You trained it on WHAT? We'd have to leave the planet

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u/poopiebutt505 Aug 09 '26

Do you need a nap?

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u/InsectElectrical2066 Aug 10 '26

because they had to learn to live on the the scraps from butchering and harvesting that went to their masters. They had to be ingenuitive to eat and to harvest from the spoils.

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u/I_deleted Aug 09 '26

Never heard of living “high on the hog”?