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>>How long can I keep homemade chicken broth in the freezer before it goes
>>bad? Thanks.
>
>One usually hears "about three months." But I've never known it to go bad.
>It's frozen.

I think 3 months is way too conservative for typical meat stocks... properly
frozen, and depending on salt concentration, it should be fine for about a
year... it's best not to add any salt to stocks which are to be frozen.

Frozen spans anywhere from 32degF down to more than 400degF below zero.
Typical home freezers are not nearly cold enough to hold foods longer than the
USDA recommended standards. And some foods (typically preserved foods) contain
too much salt to freeze solid in home freezers, not only are they prone to
spoilage from bacteria, salt laden foods tend to change texture considerably,
and not for the better, (it's primarily the salt in cheese that causes textural
changes upon freezing).


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