Can I eat this, does it count as reheating twice?!

[Tinkjon]

Yesterday I made turkey stock (which will count as cooking the liquid) and tonight I'm going to use it in a stew (which will count as reheating it once). All well and good so far. BUT - can I reheat the stew once more? The stew itself will only have been cooked once and reheated once if I do that, but the stock that went into the stew will have been reheated twice. Do we worry about reheating stock more than once?

I wouldn't worry about it.

Stock seems to be an exception to the reheating more than once rule - I don't know the science of why, but it seems to be so.

I'm really fussy about food hygiene, but even I will reheat things with stock again. Go ahead and use it.

The only reason we're told not to re-heat food is that the bacteria levels in food increase with temperature.

IMO and IME, as long as the food is thoroughly reheated (i.e. boiled) each time, then there isn't a problem.

Just boil the stock for a few minutes before you use it again.

God, go ahead.

Thanks! I guess it's ok because there is no actual food content in stock, other than water?

Of course there is food content in there! Along with millions of bacteria that will be increasing as it gets warm. The bacteria will be killed, though, by boiling the stock. They can't survive the temperature. This is why food that is re-heated has to be heated to a very high temperature (i.e. boiling)

stock lasts forever! Just boil fuck out of it each time you use it. I keep mine in the freezer, defrost and use as necessary, then refreeze if necessary

"Of course there is food content in there!"

But none of the meat or vegetables go into the stock, they're just there to flavour it, surely....?

And what do you think the flavour is?! It can't just be water, otherwise it would be tasteless.

Depends, of course, on what you mean by food content ...