Chicken - re-cooking and safety?

[BernieBear]

I need some help as am a little confused. I know that once chicken is cooked it can only be re-heated once. However, I am currently making a chicken stock out of the carcass of a roast chicken. If I were to make soup out of this and then freeze portions of it, would it still be safe to re-heat then (i.e. for a second time?) I really hope so, credit crunch has hit!

I used to make chick stock, add it to ds's food and freeze it

well I do it all the time and have never come to any harm. TBH I can't see how you could do it any other way.

Other examples: I've made pies out of leftover roast chicken, frozen the pies and reheated. I've made curries from roast turkey and reheated that. As long as you are careful, cool and freeze quickly and reheat thoroughly you'll be fine.

TBH I think the "once only" rule is to stop numpties eating lightly warming the same roast every night for a week.

I wouldn't freeze the stock, then defrost to make soup, then freeze again IYSWIM, but you're doing same as I did and ds is fine

BUt I don't think Bernie is going to freeze the stock is she? It's the soup she wants to freeze.

Honestly as long as you practice sensible food hygiene you'll be fine. It's not like it magically becomes dangerous at the 2nd reheat, it's just that each time you freeze and reheat it kills off the weak bacteria and leaves more room for any particularly strong and virulent bacteria to multiply. The more times you do it the more likely you are to run into trouble.

Many thanks. Will get on with my soup making