To brine or not to brine , that is the question

ettaterrell

ok I'm smoking meet tomorrow and I have a pork loin and a hen I always brine my meat but all the recipes I'm finding have sugar in them. (A brine is a salt base liquid you soak meat in for a few hours then rinse off, to keep it from drying out). Being you rinse it off should I worry about soaking it in the salt brown sugar brine? Ughhh

kirkor

Are you trying to do low carb or zero carb?

ki4eld

I use brines all the time, I just leave out the sugar.

ettaterrell

I'm low carb very low but I decided to just go with it it was only 2 tbs I'll live lol

Dragonwolf

I don't generally brine. This is the recipe I use when I cook chicken. Work on turkey, too. -- http://everydaypaleo.com/easy-and-amazing-roast-chicken/

nvmomketo

I brine poultry. It gives it such moist, juiciness. I use some sugar but usually a quarter of what the recipe calls for. It works out well. I get a bit more carbs but I doubt it's much.

ettaterrell

That's what I ended up doing it worked out ok

lithezebra

I skip the sugar too, and it's still yummy.