Cook's Illustrated Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts (with bone-in)
On Sun 12 Mar 2006 12:17:11a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Steve
Wertz?
> On 12 Mar 2006 06:28:15 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
> <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat 11 Mar 2006 09:23:34p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it sf?
>>
>>> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:27:59 -0500, Dee Randall wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any help appreciated regarding 30-minute brining.
>>>>
>>> No help here. I'm constantly confoosled about why brining is good,
>>> but buying an injected bird is bad.
>>
>>That confuses me, too!
>
> 1. You're paying for water
> 2. There's almost always phosphates in there
> 3. You control the brining.
>
> Some of those brined pork chops and brined chickens taste like
> hell to me.
>
> If you brined your chicken and can't tell, then you didn't brine
> it right, IMO. There's a world of difference between un brined
> and brined. And home-brined and factory brined as well.
I have no problem telling when I've brined it, and it's always good. I've
just never understood why all the commercially injected stuff. Profit,
probably.
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Wayne Boatwright ożo
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