Where do you buy gelatin at?

Answer 1

any supermarket

Answer 2

The worldwide production amount of gelatin is about 300,000 tons per year (roughly 600 million lbs.) [2]. On a commercial scale, gelatin is made from by-products of the meat and leather industry, mainly pork skins, pork and cattle bones, or split cattle hides. Recently, by-products of the fishery industry began to be considered as raw material for gelatin production because they eliminate most of the religious obstacles surrounding gelatin consumption [3]. Contrary to popular belief, horns and hooves are not commonly used. The raw materials are prepared by different curing, acid, and alkali processes which are employed to extract the dried collagen hydrolysate. These processes may take up to several weeks, and differences in such processes have great effects on the properties of the final gelatin products [4].

Gelatin can also be prepared at home. Boiling certain cartilaginous cuts of meat or bones will result in gelatin being dissolved into the water. Depending on the concentration, the resulting broth, when cooled, will naturally form a jelly or gel. This process, for instance, may be used for the pot-au-feu dish.

While there are many processes whereby collagen can be converted to gelatin, they all have several factors in common. The intermolecular and intramolecular bonds which stabilize insoluble collagen rendering it insoluble must be broken, and the hydrogen bonds which stabilize the collagen helix must also be broken [1]. The manufacturing processes of gelatin consists of three main stages:

Pretreatments to make the raw materials ready for the main extraction step and to remove impurities which may have negative effects on physicochemical properties of the final gelatin product,
The main extraction step, which is usually done with hot water or dilute acid solutions as a multistage extraction to hydrolyze collagen into gelatin, and finally,
The refining and recovering treatments including filtration, clarification, evaporation, sterilization, drying, grinding, and sifting to remove the water from the gelatin solution, to blend the gelatin extracted, and to obtain dried, blended and ground final gelatin.

Answer 3

Flavored gelatin is usually by the tinned desserts, and unflavored gelatin is usually by the home baking, flours and cake mixes and stuff in every supermarket I have been in.

Answer 4

The grocery store. There are a variety of flavored and unflavored gelatins. Knox is the leading brand name in unflavored gel and Jello tops the field in the flavored category.

Answer 5

Walmart

Answer 6

You buy it at the Supermarket, comes in sachets in a small box. you can set just about anything with it.

Answer 7

Any full service grocery store...Knox's gelatin..

Answer 8

grocers
Knox it may be in the baking isle or with the jello and pudding.

Answer 9

local supermarket

Answer 10

supermarket