>>Anyone might well ask. Chicken bones do not dissolve in boiling water.
>
>Try it yourself some time.
>
>Perhaps "dissolve" is the wrong word. "Decompose" may be more
>appropriate.
>
>-A


Just how long do you have to let these bones cook before they "dissolve"? I've
left chicken bones cooking all day long in a pot for stock or soup and at the
end of the day the bones are still there. They're clean as a whistle, but
they're still there.