It's been so, so good. At about midnight I'll throw all the bones in a pot of water with some salt and pepper and put it on low, and add a bunch of water in the morning. Then before lunch or dinner I'll dump the broth through a strainer into a bowl, put it back in the pot, and chop up some onions, carrots, celery, and potatoes and throw them in in there with some spices.
Today I threw a handful of rice in there. I cook it for about another half hour.
If there's any leftover chicken I'll cut that up and put it in 5 minutes before it's done, otherwise it's just chicken vegetable which is still bomb. I often put a little butter in there too.
It's so good. I had a longstanding brainworm telling me I don't really like soup, but that's because people eat WAY more canned soup than homemade soup. It's so so good.
Posting in my own thread: Also if you have good bread that went stale, it can be so good in soup.
I found that breaking it up with a hammer isn't great because there's too much dust and it just thickens it way too much. Either carefully saw the bread into chunks, or hit a knife with a rubber mallet to make cleaner breaks. I am not responsible if you die btw
bread makes amazing dumpling-like morsels that are often not even soaked all the way through after a long time.