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[CapricornFarm]

Went well came home today in the afternoon. Crawled into bed and now am back up but fading fast. I will post more when I have more stamina

Good to hear from you! It will get better daily. Hugs

 

[Phage]

Went well came home today in the afternoon. Crawled into bed and now am back up but fading fast. I will post more when I have more stamina

So relieved to hear that you are fine and it all went well. Take it easy and welcome to a new lease on life!!!

 

[bruceha2000]

I've never done brining before. Open to instruction.

I brined a turkey once. Salty as all get out after it was cooked. Maybe it needs a LOT of fresh water rinsing after brining. We rarely use salt so I'm sure that made it even more noticable. Even the gravy was WAY salty. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise. In any case, I've not done it again.

kay tried this but here they all spin is this on their end or side ?

Any egg will spin on its side, only a hard boiled one will spin on its end. In the case of the raw egg Weebles wobble and they DO fall down.

 

[microchick]

YAY PERCHIE!! Glad to hear that you are at home and taking it easy. I know that what you are going through isn't going to be easy to adjust to. But you can do it and I hope you remember that we are all here praying and rooting for you.

Right now, sit back and let yourself heal and remember to take care of Perchie! She's a pretty special lady!

PS Thanks for the brining recipe. I'm a bit worried about the sodium content/high blood pressure connection though and may have to consider a plan B Maybe an injector?

 

[ronott1]

Yes. try a raw egg and it will just fall over. A hard boiled egg will spin on its end.


I grew up in So. Cal in the 60's prior to catalytic converters and the clean air act. I will fight to my death any attempt to degrade the air quality standards now in place and would support any new ones. There were many days we could not go out for recess because of the air quality. When I moved into the dorm at school in '74 it was on the 3rd floor. EVERY trip up those stairs required a 20 minute "rest" period with burning eyes and lungs. When I moved to VT in '79 the lakes in the Adirondacks were dead from acid rain. Yes pollution coming from the midwest. There is a reason those smoke stacks were so high. As long as the "locals" didn't have to suck up the pollution they didn't give a rat's patootie what happened to the people and environment down wind.

It is much better than it was back then!

The ozone hole has healed itself too so it much be working to some extent.

It would be nice if other gross polluting countries would get on the ball too.

 

[ronott1]

I brined a turkey once. Salty as all get out after it was cooked. Maybe it needs a LOT of fresh water rinsing after brining. We rarely use salt so I'm sure that made it even more noticable. Even the gravy was WAY salty. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise. In any case, I've not done it again.


Any egg will spin on its side, only a hard boiled one will spin on its end. In the case of the raw egg Weebles wobble and they DO fall down.

With brining turkeys, you can run into the problem of getting a turkey that is already injected with salt and stock. Most in the stores are. Getting one that it natural and not injected works best

 

[CapricornFarm]

With brining turkeys, you can run into the problem of getting a turkey that is already injected with salt and stock. Most in the stores are. Getting one that it natural and not injected works best

Of course, water and broth adds to the weight, so they can charge more!

 

[perchie.girl]

It is much better than it was back then!

The ozone hole has healed itself too so it much be working to some extent.

It would be nice if other gross polluting countries would get on the ball too.

unfortunately many of those are third world and need the energy big time.... Back in the sixties I knew the Ozone layer would be healed. But even through the belief the people around me hammered me down.

thats why I was so slow to jump on the Global warming bandwagon. Still am... Climate change is definitely happening but hard to point a finger on one industry or country or.... what ever.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

With brining turkeys, you can run into the problem of getting a turkey that is already injected with salt and stock. Most in the stores are. Getting one that it natural and not injected works best

That explains my brining disaster... a few years back.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

Somewhere I read that you can still burn and or overcook meat even in boiling water.

It is weird!

Yep... the max heat is hugely important. If you let the water get to a boil, that is too hot and the meat gets tough.

Old meat needs to simmer.