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drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) writes:

> As usual, after Thanksgiving I simmered the bones until the attached
> meat fell off.  I simmered down the result a bit and put in quart
> Mason jars to sit in the freezer until it is soup time.
>
> Being almost soup time, I just went to pull out a jar to thaw.  It
> looks like I got a little too greedy on jar space.  Two of the five
> jars have broken, even with the plastic lids.  That's a first for
> me (though I don't freeze a lot in jars).
>
> I guess, after careful inspection, I'll be making 2 quarts of soup
> instead of one.
>
> I may need to buy more garlic.

In most cases I buy my chicken parts with bone and skin, usually in
large family packs. The same day, if it's thighs as an example, I will
clean them all and freeze dinner-sized portions. I'll dispose only the
skin then bag the bones separately. Over the course of a year, i have
bone bags on a bottom basket in my freezer that gather. With these
bones, I make large volumes of white chicken/bone stock during late
summer. Sometimes it lasts a year. It all depends on how often I need
stock.

If you don't mind a suggestion from someone else with space
considerations, don't use jars. When it's time to freeze fresh stock,
acquire a stack of tupperware-like containers in the size you want for
cooking. Pour stock into each. Ahead of time, prepare a shelf in the
freezer for the stock containers. Once they're froze (or frozen enough),
transfer the frozen ingots (my wife calls them that) to a freezer bag or
foodsaver (what I do). They will all be uniform in size/shape and
stackable. You'll find that you can store way more stock this way. I
typically have a shelf dedicated to the bagged stock with some
overflow.

Daniel
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Live, freeze, learn drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) - 2025-12-15 02:27 +0000
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