Can I freeze this?

[spanikopita]

Last Sunday I cooked fresh chicken (not frozen previously). I shredded it & froze it intending to use it later. Well I decided to cook a giant batch of soup today and use the chicken.

Can I freeze the soup (thus freezing the chicken 2x) or would it be yuck?

[anna7602]

I do not refreeze meat, but I don't have any scientific info to back up why.

[everafter07]

I wouldn't refreeze 2x. I do thaw chix, make pulled chix in the crockpot and then refreeze, but that's all I'd be comfortable with.

[nessness]

I would. The texture might not be as good after refreezing, but in a soup I doubt it would be too noticeable.

[aurora]

I would since it's a soup.

[wavepool]

As long as it's not chicken noodle, freeze it. I don't like thawed noodles.

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[MixedBerryJam]

i refreeze chicken in chicken soup all the time and it's fine. Assuming I start with a frozen chicke, I thaw it and cook it. Then I freeze the carcass until I've got 2 or 3 to make a big pot of soup. Then I divide the soup into batches and freeze it. So often frozen 3x. And when I make a noodle soup I cook the noodles separately and add them at the very end.

[flatlan]

I would.

[audette]

What MixedBerryJam said - in the soup it'll be fine. I've done it quite often. It's pretty rare that my soup making efforts start with never-frozen poultry...

In fact, I just made a batch of turkey stock and froze it earlier today. I had some turkey legs, roasted them, we ate a couple suppers, I stripped the rest of the meat (and froze it), and boiled the remaining skin and bones and bits to make stock...

[orangeblossom]

Yes.

So if I'm understanding. You froze cooked chicken. Used said frozen chicken today in your soup, and want to freeze the soup. Is that correct?

I'd absolutely freeze it. Now if you said you used the cooked and never frozen chicken in the soup, I would say no.

[rachaelnicole]

I would. The quality of the chicken might suffer a little, but in soup it will probably be fine.

[Deleted]

Yep it's fine

[changedname]

Aug 31, 2014 6:01:14 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Yes.

So if I'm understanding. You froze cooked chicken. Used said frozen chicken today in your soup, and want to freeze the soup. Is that correct?

I'd absolutely freeze it. Now if you said you used the cooked and never frozen chicken in the soup, I would say no.

I'm confused at the bolded. If the chicken had never been frozen, why couldn't she freeze it in the soup? I hate chicken freezing rules, so confusing.

[orangeblossom]

Sept 1, 2014 17:15:03 GMT -5 changedname said:

Aug 31, 2014 6:01:14 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Yes.

So if I'm understanding. You froze cooked chicken. Used said frozen chicken today in your soup, and want to freeze the soup. Is that correct?

I'd absolutely freeze it. Now if you said you used the cooked and never frozen chicken in the soup, I would say no.

I'm confused at the bolded. If the chicken had never been frozen, why couldn't she freeze it in the soup? I hate chicken freezing rules, so confusing.

I would be hesitant to use week old cooked chicken in soup, regardless of I was freezing it or not. 

[spanikopita]

Sept 1, 2014 17:17:33 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Sept 1, 2014 17:15:03 GMT -5 changedname said:

I'm confused at the bolded. If the chicken had never been frozen, why couldn't she freeze it in the soup? I hate chicken freezing rules, so confusing.

I would be hesitant to use week old cooked chicken in soup, regardless of I was freezing it or not. 

Maybe I was unclear.

I cooked the chicken . THEN froze it. One week layer, defrosted & put it in freshly made soup. Then froze the entire thing of soup.

I think I'm good! Lol.

[mbcdefg]

I would.

I don't think it'd make you sick or anything, but the texture might be weird.

[womet]

I have done this and haven't had an issue.

[orangeblossom]

Sept 2, 2014 9:16:36 GMT -5 spanikopita said:

Sept 1, 2014 17:17:33 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

I would be hesitant to use week old cooked chicken in soup, regardless of I was freezing it or not. 

Maybe I was unclear.

I cooked the chicken . THEN froze it. One week layer, defrosted & put it in freshly made soup. Then froze the entire thing of soup.

I think I'm good! Lol.

I got that. That was in response to my earlier response, that what you did was done, but I wouldn't have done it if the chicken was cooked and never frozen.

Sorry for the confusion I added to your post. Hope your soup was yummy!