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Brine RecipesBelow you'll find some great brine recipes that you can use as a pre-cursor to your smoking activities. You'll also find out about how to brine and why it works. Brining or wet curing meat and fish has been around for many years and effectively has three purposes:-
Today we don't use brine so much for preserving, it's more for adding flavor and actually moisturizing the meat (in the case of turkey) rather than dehydrating it. Dependent on the meat you are cooking the brine recipe with vary in strength ie. the concentration of salt in the solution. For example, you'll find that a lot of the fish recipes have a high salt concentration and you may only leave the fish in the brine for a matter of minutes. Contrast that with Turkey where a weaker salt concentration is the order of the day, you may brine a whole turkey overnight or even for a matter of days. In addition it must be said that brining is a matter of taste, inevitably it makes food taste saltier and some folks prefer their food more salty than others. The impact of brine is also affected by the size of the piece of meat or fish that you are brining together with the fat content. This means that timings for brining are approximate and the only way to gauge what's right for you is to experiment. For this reason it's always better to start off underdoing the brine timings rather than overdoing it, that way you can gradually build up to the degree of saltiness that you enjoy. In the brine recipes listed we'll cover all these aspects so you'll find great brines that are specific to particular foods. Before we get to that there's a few things that everybody should understand about brine both for food safety and general understanding. Turkey BrinesTraditional Brine For Smoked Turkey Brine Turkey With A Quick And Easy Recipe Smoked Turkey Brine Rich In Worcestershire Sauce Fish BrineUse this link to learn more about Smoked Fish Brine.Seasoned Smoked Salmon Brine Recipe JerkyI've included these last two in this section because it's difficult to determine whether thay are a brine or a marinade. On one hand I've described them as marinades but then again the mix is similar to the bucket chemistry techniques used to make a brine.If you're looking for how to make jerky then you probably don't care anyway, right? California Jerky Seasoning Recipe Wild West Beef Jerky Marinade Recipe See Also:-How To Brine A Turkey
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