From the article: Brining Turkey
While the basic method of brining remains the same there are as many different recipes and techniques as there are cooks. The question is, how do you brine a turkey? Share your ideas. Share your Ideas
What a surprise
- Last year was my very first year to cook Thanksgiving dinner all on my own. There were quite a few skeptics about brining a turkey....this year all of those skeptics called me asking me if I would mind making dinner again. Brining is the answer to a moist wonderful tasting turkey dinner. I went to my local spice shop and they already had a bag of spices made up just for brining turkey. I also used the ZipLock Gallon bags, sealed it put it in a cooler full of ice for 24 hours (10lb turkey) and cooked it in a tin foil tent. It was amazing!
- —Guest Rachele
kc cook
- I generally take a plastic trash can, use a regular plastic bag liner, ice it down and put it in the garage where it is cool enough to keep overnight
- —Guest dmd
Brining Precautions
- Be careful when you get ready to remove that turkey from the brining bag. I pulled an oven bag full of turkey and brine up from the styrofoam cooler to place in the kitchen sink, and the bag burst at countertop level. The turkey went crashing down, blowing apart the styrofoam cooler, and brine went everywhere! Lift the turkey out of the brining bag. Don't lift the brining bag.
- —Guest Dr Dave
Simple and Wet
- I brined for the first time ever... in an ice chest with a 5.33 lb. turkey breast and let it sit for 10-12 hours in the brine with ICE... turned out awesome... so I think 1 hour / lb is a bit short... just my 2 cents!
- —Guest awesome_guy
brining
- I start brining a couple of days early and I change the brine every twelve hours. I use the small side of my double sink which makes it easier to drain out the bloody brine and replace with the fresh one. Continue to add ice always and keep a thermometer so you know the bird is under 40 degrees. And you're right, you'll not go back to non-brined again.
- —Guest alaskaturkeyman
wine, oj and chicken stock
- our family recipe calls for bagging the turkey in a zip lock or tightly sealed kitchen garbage bag filled with a mixture of OJ, white wine and chicken stock.
- —fab_flavor
