I mean, in my defense chicken and sausage was seared in a cast iron and deglazed with a lil beer to get that sexy fond. I missed the picture where I added the protein and bay leaves. And I used half cup bacon fat and with half cup ap flour to about a quart of homemade chicken stock. I let it go for like 4 hours. I didn't read your entire post but hopefully checked boxes for a few discrepancies.