Using half-eaten bones to make stock -- sanitary?

Is it safe use half-eaten bones from a family dinner meal to make stock? Or is this unsanitary, and it's better to just obtain bones through filleting and deboning while raw or after slow or pressure cooking?

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It's not sanitary, in the sense of following the health rules. Especially since it's unlikely that you're following the two-hour guidelines: the gnawed bones have been in the danger zone enough to potentially pick up an enterobacter that produced heat-stable toxins. Boiling will not fix that. And having been in somebody's mouth increases the chance that such bacteria is one that infects humans.

Consider it this way: even if you're not squicked out by the basic concept, how would you feel if the bones had been left out on the plate for a day? A week?

As for whether it's safe, the short answer is "no".

The odds it being actually dangerous are pretty low. The food safety rules are designed to keep the most at-risk people safe: small children, people with compromised immune systems, etc. Given how many other opportunities there are for food-borne infections to be picked up, I'd consider something that I picked up and simmered for many hours to be about as free from pathogens as anything I got out of the dirt, i.e. vegetables, which we often eat raw.

So I'll admit to having done it, but I wouldn't feed it to anybody except myself.

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Can you use eaten bones for stock?

Can I use bones we've eaten from? Yes. It's just about to spend hours in a pot bubbling away.

What can I do with leftover bones from stock?

*Alternatively, you can go to your local butcher and buy bones exclusively for making broth. But we find it's much more streamlined to buy a whole chicken, roast it, and then use the leftover bones to make broth.

Can you use already cooked bones for bone broth?

Step By Step Instructions. Roast Bones: If you are using bones leftover from a cooked chicken or roast then you can skip this step. However, if you are using raw bones, roasting them first will give your bone broth great flavour, colour and richness.

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