{"id":5011,"date":"2017-12-20T16:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T23:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T23:28:15","slug":"brine-time-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/brine-time-guide.html","title":{"rendered":"Brine Time Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Brining is a dynamite way to plump up lean or tough meats and poultry. It makes fish juicier. You cover the food with salted (and flavored, if you&#8217;d like) cold water, refrigerate it and, after a time, you are ready to cook.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The big hitch is that people are brining too long, to the point of over-salted, spongy, pickle-like dishes. You sidestep the problem by brining according to the thickness of the meat, no matter which brine recipe you are using<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brining Times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pork chops, chicken breasts, or meats about one inch thick: 45 minutes to 4 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Fish: Its structure is delicate so brine no more than 1 1\/2 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Whole chicken and Cornish hens: 4 to 8 hours, depending on size.<\/li>\n<li>Turkey (12 to 18 pounds): 2 days.<\/li>\n<li>Roasts: Figure 1 1\/2 to 2 hours per inch of thickness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Important:\u00a0<\/strong> Be sure liquid is ice cold when the food goes into it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always brine in the refrigerator.<\/li>\n<li>When seasoning a brine, overdo it. For instance, for 2 quarts of brine you would want 1\/2 cup hot chile powder; or 10 big cloves garlic, crushed; or 2 cups of fresh basil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The Splendid Table, Lynne Brine Time Guide \u00a9 2005 Lynne Rossetto Kasper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brining is a dynamite way to plump up lean or tough meats and poultry. It makes fish juicier. You cover the food with salted (and flavored, if you&#8217;d like) cold water, refrigerate it and, after a time, you are ready to cook. The big hitch is that people are brining too long, to the point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/brine-time-guide.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brine Time Guide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-information"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}