The chicken can be wrapped in plastic and placed in a bag if you do not have space to leave it uncovered. Use a paper towel to gently dry the surface before cooking. You don’t have to rinse the salt off the skin before roasting. However be careful of over-salting, if you feel tha...
I have found that whole turkey should be brined longer than whole chicken. I usually brine a whole turkey for 24 hours and whole chickens 8-12 hours. Otherwise, at least to me, the chicken tastes too salty. As far as a turkey breast, I guess that I would go somewhere between 12-24...
I have always been happy with my beer can chickens both on the grill and in the smoker. However, this past Sunday, I decided to try to brine the bird before smoking it. I had read that a whole chicken should be brined for anywhere from 1 hour to 8 hours. I decided to stay on th...
Cook’sbrined shrimp, pork chops, and whole chicken in a full-strength solution and a half-strength solution for 1 hour per pound. After cooking and tasting, they found that the meats brined at half-strength were a lot less salty than those brined at full-strength, but the improvement in...
The one-gallon size can be used for small cuts of meat like pork chops, chicken pieces, while the two-gallon size will accommodate a whole or butterflied chicken. Just put the meat in the bag, add the brine, zip the top, and place in a mixing bowl in the fridge for support and to...