11-day-old roast chicken - safe for making stock?

filigree_2

Good grief, where was the chicken hiding all this time? I would have used it up much earlier, if only to make some room in the bloomin fridge :rotfl:

I'm a great one for making proper bone stock but on this occasion I'd bin the chicken and use an Oxo cube instead.

Generally I get the carcase ready for stock-making straight away, by chucking the bones and bits straight into the slow cooker along with the veg cooking water. It's cooked by bedtime, cools overnight and goes in the freezer in the morning.

lil_me

48 hours I try for, 72 hours upmost maximum when it comes to cooked meats I either use, freeze or fling after that.

sloppychops

Theres money saving and theres money saving to the extreme, but not at the expense of risking either your own health or one of your families by actually using the chicken after 11 days..I wouldnt ever consider keeping a chicken anywhere near that long no matter what.

natzini

Urgh, this is making me worry! I made soup with chicken that was 3 days old and then left it in the fridge for a day (the soup), then froze the soup... do you think that it's ok to eat the soup? This has scared me now as the chicken in the soup was 4 days old by freezing time!

susank

It would be fine as it had been boiled to make the soup - our grannys stock pots were never empty but the difference was they boiled them all day every day and added things to them - fine if it is boiled up long enough.

natzini

Cool, thanks susank!

lemontart

basically NO...............chicken is one of the worse offenders for problems so do not risk it.

chalky_75

Ughhh that jus makes me feel sick thinking about it

bobmats_shel

Step away from the chicken! Please don't do it, you're asking for trouble there, after 11 days I'm surprised the chicken hasn't started to stink :eek:

odds-n-sods

this threads a few days old, folks! pretty sure the 11 day old chicken has been binned.