Recently read that only fresh turkeys should be brined. Reasoning was that frozen turkeys are injected with a salt solution- can anyone shed some light on this= Paul
That was Alton Brown. I heard it on NPR on Thurs or Fri evening. Anyhow, it sounded plausible to me, and Alton is pretty sharp on this stuff, so I suspect it'd work fine.Never tried this myself but I heard an interview on a radio show where the "guest chef" said at his home he makes up his brine like normal, chills it down to 40-ish degrees and drops a frozen bird in there for a week! He said the container he uses is one of those 5-gallon insulated water cooler jugs and claims he checks the temperature twice a day and never gets over 40 degrees over the entire process and always works just as well as a thawed bird over a shorter amount of time. I guess it's one of those two-birds cases for him; the conversation caught my attention none the less.