Pops brined chicken breasts

[hagar]

Anyone use Pops wet brine for chicken breasts? Have you doctored up the brine with spices, bourbon, Maple syurp? Cooking 24 breast s this weekend looking to try some new things. Let me know what you have done. Thanks

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[crankybuzzard]

YEP!  Regularly.

The bride likes to have cooked, vac packed and frozen breasts in the freezer for when I'm out of town, so I do a few buckets of them a year.

I like to take FRESH basil, rosemary, and oregano smash them up really good and add them to the bucket along with the brine/cure.  Start them on a monday, grill/smoke on Saturday.

Very flavorful and the moisture retention is very good as well.

 

[hagar]

YEP!  Regularly.



The bride likes to have cooked, vac packed and frozen breasts in the freezer for when I'm out of town, so I do a few buckets of them a year.



I like to take FRESH basil, rosemary, and oregano smash them up really good and add them to the bucket along with the brine/cure.  Start them on a monday, grill/smoke on Saturday.



Very flavorful and the moisture retention is very good as well.

I was figuring on just a day or two in the brine. Will that be enough time?

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[crankybuzzard]

I was figuring on just a day or two in the brine. Will that be enough time?

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That should be fine as long as you aren't overloading the bucket with chicken and not using enough of the brine.  I do a solid 5-6 days due to time.