do chicken bones go bad when saving for making a broth?

[CherryBombMama]

i roasted a chicken and had PLANNED on saving the bones to make a broth, and then a week later ... i remembered it was still in the fridge waiting for me to take the leftover meat off the bones. i threw it in the freezer cuz i wasnt sure if it was still good after a week (the bones to make broth, not the chicken meat.)

what would you do about this? discard and start over? im just annoyed because i bought the chicken to save the bones, and then i forgot to save the bones! 

[34me]

My dh, who works in food safety, wouldn't let me use mine after a week....

[cristeen]

I regularly keep them a week.  Yes, in a professional setting you're not allowed to for food safety reasons, but my kitchen is not a professional kitchen, and I do what I can with what I have.  And that means that food may be a week old before I get to it.  If it's not stinky and not growing, then I don't worry about it.  But you have to determine for yourself where your comfort level is with that. 

IMO, the fact that I'm going to be boiling those bones for a day or more makes a big difference with what I'm willing to put up with. 

[ASusan]

Agree w/ Cristeen. They would get used here (heck, even week-old chicken leftovers would get eaten here). If you heat them up and they smell bad, toss them.

[Chicky2]

I would use them, too.

[icy02]

I'm a (non-working) professionally trained chef. If the bones smell rotten or smelly at all you should not risk it. If it smells fine, it is fine :) I have made the same mistake myself and while it's a bummer not really worth getting sick.