If you're a cook who likes to play things by ear, you might not have the ingredients or time to assemble a quality brine off the cuff. As luck would have it, we've got a fantastic shortcut ...
Should I try it just to be sure? The recipe starts with a brine, but not just any brine. This one calls for making a gallon of tea with 38 tea bags (preferably from Charleston Tea Garden), 1 cup ...
A wet brine, by definition, is water with a high concentration of salt and includes other ingredients. To be clear, whether dry or wet, salt is the main component here, as it will penetrate meat ...
so 140g for my brine recipe below, which requires about two litres of water. The argument is that if you’re adding sugar to the brine as well as salt, the ratio should be around ¾ of salt to ½ ...