How much chicken drippings are produced from roasting?

tetraneutron
tetraneutron Posts: 7 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm roasting a chicken (I didn't add any oil to the bird) with carrots under the roasting pan. I'm going to eat the carrots/dripping as a side. But while I can find the calorie content of drippings (even though I imagine it must vary widely) I can't find out how much is produced from a roast. So if my chicken releases 4 tbsp of drippings and I eat half the calories, that's an extra 252 calories, significantly more than my usual method of roasting that same volume of carrots in 1 tbsp at most of oil.

So I'd really like to know for sure.

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  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    It all depends on how fat your chicken is. I suggest you weigh/measure it after cooking.

    Different purpose, but when I am making gravy I pour out all the liquid and drippings in a mason jar, in the refrigerator. In a short while I skim off the fat. That way I can decide how much fat goes in to the gravy.

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