Today's Cooking Tip from Lokheed:

A BRINE IS NOT A MARINADE

When brining, pay attention to the recommended time to leave the meat in the brine. For chicken breasts, this means about 90 minutes. (And only brine non-kosher chicken breasts. A kosher breast has already been brined.)

What happens if you, say, leave the chicken breasts in the brine all day while you are out playing with your kid at the Magic Kingdom? You get something that looks like a chicken breast and tastes like a solid brick of salt.

Yum!

Pardon me while I go toss a frozen pizza in the oven....

From: (Anonymous)

Oh no!


heh.
live and learn
~Kris~

From: [identity profile] damashita.livejournal.com


time to watch Good Eats with Alton Brown - science and cooking and scathing wit.

From: [identity profile] lokheed.livejournal.com


Ok, I did an actual spit-take at that....

So now not only do I have to feel guilty about being a bad cook, but I may have inadvertantly created a demon child. Or a viral pathogen, depending on which incarnation of the story you read.

From: [identity profile] lokheed.livejournal.com


AB is my cooking hero. It's because of him that I brined my turkey this year for thanksgiving, and it turned out so incredibly moist and flavorful you wouldn't believe it. That's actually why I decided to try brining my chicken breasts. So I guess, really, it's *his* fault I ruined my dinner last night. Right?

From: [identity profile] damashita.livejournal.com


hehehe.... i was wondering about the brined turkey.... :) Since it is his fault, perhaps you could get him to come to your house for a show... he is just up in Georgia, you know. :D
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