"Little Malice" > wrote

> One time on Usenet, Steve Wertz > said:
>> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:27:16 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> > Just read the latest issue of Cook's Illustrated. Turkey day is
>> > coming,
>> > and we'll have the usual brining in garbage bag thing coming up.
>> > I'm in the 'garbage bags are not food grade ... or manufactured in a
>> > food sterile environment' camp.
>> >
>> > This was an interesting recommendation I could get behind. I've
>> > seen the ads ... those Zip Lock bags for storing large items ... like
>> > pillows and stuff. The magazine says they are food grade ... and
>> > I believe it, I doubt they built a new factory to make the larger bags
>> > separately from the food ones.
>>
>> The problem with plastic bags is that it's nearly impossible to
>> get the bird evenly covered with brine. Sure you can flip the
>> around every few hours, but the two times I've tried that I still
>> ended up with a very unevenly brined bird.
>
> I was envisioning lining a big cooler with the bag...

That was my thought, along with squeezing out most of the air
you could keep the turkey submerged without the turning.

nancy