Frozen stock - can I refreeze?

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fizzpops · 05/04/2009 16:39

I made some stock a while ago from a chicken carcass and today I defrosted it and used it to make soup.

Can I freeze the soup?

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ShyTalk · 05/04/2009 18:19

Yes, because you have re-cooked the stock but I understand why you are asking. This is a bit like if you have a pack of frozen mince, thaw it and then make lasagne. The resulting lasagne can also be frozen. You have "changed" the thawed product by re-cooking it so it is OK to freeze the "new" food, IYKWIM.

onadietcokebreak · 05/04/2009 18:26

I saw this thread earlier and didnt know the answer! Thanks ShyTalk...now I remember my mum explaining it like that to me only a few months ago!

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fizzpops · 05/04/2009 19:05

Thanks for that! I am a vegetarian which doesn't help, I tend to be a bit paranoid about meat etc because I have little experience of cooking it. Makes me feel a bit like I am experimenting on my DD - you have put my mind at rest

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ShyTalk · 05/04/2009 19:27

Mind at rest - result.

Gloria42 · 07/04/2009 13:39

I was going to post on this very subject for my mum who did exactly the same, made stock from a coooked chicken carcass, froze it, defrosted it to make soup then froze the soup.

Maybe I'm being dense, but I don't see how the stock is being "changed" by making the soup? Surely it's cooking as it's being made (into stock)?

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