Brining

What is a brine? What is a brine?

Brining is like putting it in a salt bath for two days before Thanksgiving-

It's like marinating

... and it helps the moisture, like, stick into the turkey so that it's really juicy meat.

And the reason that I did the test more than once, so I did it once with four pork loins, and then a another round of testing and the reason for doing it more than once is really because pork loin roasts have different shapes some of them are longer and slimmer than others and I wanted to make sure that whatever effect I'm getting is really because of the time in the brine and not because the differences in the pork roasts and I can say that actually all of my testing got the same results it did not seem to matter about the size or shape of the pork loin roast so the That is good.

It just meant a lot of eating pork loin in my house for the last couple of months, you know? So quickly, what exactly is brining? Brining is soaking your meat in a saltwater solution before cooking it.

And you do that because it changes the meat in three ways.

So saltwater is more easily sucked up into the meat than plain water.

way?Um, that was in the, uh-

Brining and curing bonus episode

Oh, yeah, yeah.

That's right, the bonus episode.