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Brine!Fail
I'm hosting this Thanksgivings Day dinner tomorrow evening, and sort of stressing out about cooking the turkey. A bunch of people suggested I brine the turkey before baking it, so I read through 10 million websites about it, come up with a recipe and a plan, and despite not having a big pot to put the turkey plus brine in, I figured I'd improvise.
By using an oven bag. You know, the kind used to actually cook the turkey in?
In this picture, I'm about to pour in the last batch of the brine (4 cups water, 1/4 cup salt, 1/4 brown sugar, and a tsp each of sage, poultry seasoning, rosemary, and peppercorns). Anyone else got a bad feeling about this? I sure as hell didn't. Not until...
CRAP! Bag split along the seam and suddenly I had a geyser spewing Thanksgivings-smelling brine pouring out all over my kitchen and on top of my bag of flour.
AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!
Now I have a turkey in my sink in a split bag half filled with brine and no idea what to do with it. And I have a mess in my kitchen to clean up. Never mind I still have the entire rest of the apartment to clean before people come tomorrow.
And to top it all off, I've missed the writing deadline I had set for myself today.
Today? Really sucked.
*headdesk*
By using an oven bag. You know, the kind used to actually cook the turkey in?
In this picture, I'm about to pour in the last batch of the brine (4 cups water, 1/4 cup salt, 1/4 brown sugar, and a tsp each of sage, poultry seasoning, rosemary, and peppercorns). Anyone else got a bad feeling about this? I sure as hell didn't. Not until...
CRAP! Bag split along the seam and suddenly I had a geyser spewing Thanksgivings-smelling brine pouring out all over my kitchen and on top of my bag of flour.
AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!
Now I have a turkey in my sink in a split bag half filled with brine and no idea what to do with it. And I have a mess in my kitchen to clean up. Never mind I still have the entire rest of the apartment to clean before people come tomorrow.
And to top it all off, I've missed the writing deadline I had set for myself today.
Today? Really sucked.
*headdesk*