sf wrote on 11 Mar 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> I'm constantly confoosled about why brining is good,
> but buying an injected bird is bad.

Well let's see injected ...you shoot/force fluids into the bird increasing
it's weight. Brining...you soak the bird in a flavoured salt bath causing
the salty flavoured fluid to replace via osmosis some of the normal fluids
in the bird.

Also I don't believe the injected birds are flavour tailored to your
personal taste. As you can with a brine. See the various brine recipes that
use garlic powder, oj concentrate etc...

Brining...You buy the bird then mess with it's weight, hence only paying
per lb for chicken, not the 15% weight increase that would be salted water
if it were injected.

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-Alan