Making stock out of chicken bones

[HanSB]

...leftover from people's plates is disgusting?

I had a lovely roast chicken dinner at a friend's house and was helping her clear the table. She scrapped all the leftover bones covered in bits of gravy from everyone's plates into a saucepan to make a stock.

I'm all for using the stripped leftover carcass to make a stock but it had never crossed my mind that you would use the half eaten around left over bits of bones from plates.

Is this actually the norm??

🤮 I think I’d decline future invitations, although no doubt plenty of posters will be along to say it’s fine and not at all unhygienic, because germs are killed when it’s cooking.

How is that disgusting? They are going to be boiled for hours.

Gross.

I also see no point in making stock from the bones anyway. Stock cubes are still pretty cheap and energy is expensive.

I would never scrape the bones off peoples plates that's grim

I often make chicken stock but I'd draw the line at that

If it was just me and ds then I would, other people no.

Although I wouldn’t serve chicken on the bone for Sunday dinner tbf

I put everything into the stock pot. Simmer gently for an hour or so. Nobody here has died. Although stock cubes are cheap ish, I think (in a slightly sloppy way) that it is showing some sort of 'respect' for the chicken that you make the most of all of it. I'd be vegetarian if I could handle it.....lack of willpower. We eat far less meat than we did.

Also homemade stock is far nicer than an oxo cube for soup

I don't see the problem tbh.

Why didn’t she strip the chicken from the bones before serving it? I always strip all the chicken and put it on a serving plate, then I’ve got all the bones for making stock.

I don’t think it’s disgusting. The bones get boiled for hours. There may be a theoretical risk (so I wouldn’t do it if making soup for elderly people or toddlers), but soup for me: no problem.

A few years ago there was a poster here who said how they save money and that was one of the ways- make broth from leftovers bones people chewed on, I almost threw up in my mouth.

I really wouldn’t be fussed …the bones get well and truly boiled .

I wouldn’t be fussed either.

I doubt it saves any money at all. I mean how much does the average person spend on stock cubes?

I do this- it's absolutely fine. A bones that has been on a plate, hasn't actually been in contact with anyone and is then boiled for hours is not a risk at all.

Huge stock person, but I strip before serving.

My stock is incredible and no stock would come near it.

The simplest of soup is delicious as a result.

I cooked pasta in it when my children were small, topped with butter, black pepper and freshly grated parmigiana.

A favourite whenever they were feeling off.

Onion soup from a good stock is a feast.

I add it to curries. The nourishment factor is huge.

I strip the chicken first to use the bones and I'm sure it makes no difference if it been on a plate first but the thought makes me dry heave

I do , but then I only cook for myself. Other people doing it yo share outside their immediate family . . Hmm I am not so sure about .
Those saying a stock cube it the same , bones give the natural thickness to soup / gravy and no salt

Om not saying it does- the OP of that thread was just saying how she uses EVERYTHING even chewed on bones.

What exactly is disgusting about it? Leaving aside the fact that everything will be boiled as you may not know that, can you articulate what is disgusting about it? Were people licking the bones or eating with their fingers? Or is it literally that the tines of their forks went in their mouths and then touched the bones?

Hmm, not a fan

I'm with @billy1966 homemade stock is far superior to pots or cubes, but there is still a place for them.
I love making a stock (from a stripped carcass - no chewed bones for me!)
I can make a good litre, usually 1200mls. I'll often drink some fresh from being sieved through a Muslin cloth. It's full of good stuff.
It makes sauces and curries have so much greater depth and glossiness.

Well any germs will be killed in the cooking process, but I still wouldn't. It would feel odd for one reason but there would also be dressing, or gravy or anything else that I wouldn't want in the stock.

Hmmm. I do this with DH and I. But we remove the chicken with cutlery so the bones aren’t chewed.

if someone had been eating chicken drumsticks by biting them then I wouldn’t use them - I agree that sounds gross. Yet I’m not sure that’s logical as I think any germs would be killed by the boiling to make stock. It just seems gross.

that's f.. disgusting.