7Jul/103
What is a good way to brine a turkey, if you don’t want to spend a lot of money or effort?
I've looked over answers to questions on how to brine a turkey, and they all include tons of fancy, expensive ingredients, and I just want to brine a 10-12 pound turkey for Christmass, just to try brining one for the first time, and I don't want to put too much effort or money into it, and not use too many ingredients.
What's a good way to go, if you want to do it simple?
July 7th, 2010 - 23:43
What do you mean fancy ingrediants? A brine is just salt, sugar and water. Very simple.
July 7th, 2010 - 23:58
okay so all you need is salt, water and sugar.
For every gallon of water you use to cover the turkey add 1 cup of salt. and for every 5 pounds of turkey you need 1/2 cup of sugar.
This is great and keeps the turkey moist and juicy!
But remember to rinse the turkey before cooking it, and dry it off to get a nice crispy skin.
hope this works out and your christmas goes great!
July 8th, 2010 - 00:08
We brined a turkey a few years ago and it was really very good. We saw it done on America’s Test Kitchens and they recommended doing it in an ice chest. All we used was Kosher salt, water, turkey and ice — closed the ice chest and continued to add ice every few hours to keep it cool. We put extra ice and every blue ice brick we could find in the freezer to keep it cool overnight.
Cheap and easy. A little tiresome keeping it cool, but oh well.