Cooking Tip
The easiest way to de-fat the juice in a crock pot, is to pull all the meat out and pour the liquid through a strainer. Stick a paper towel in the strainer, put a bowl underneath, and pour away. The broth will go through the strainer, but most of the fat won't. If you let it sit for half an hour or so, the saturated fat will turn into nice, solid lard. Ewww. Pour the liquid broth back into the crock pot, add the meat, and let it finish cooking.
20 years, I've been using a crock pot; and I only just now figured that out.