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Default Did I throw away something good?

Oh pshaw, on Sat 15 Jul 2006 08:51:51p, isw meant to say...

> Brined a turkey breast overnight and cooked it today -- closed grill,
> low heat, chips in the smoker thing -- and it was just as good as always.
>
> But as I was cleaning up, and pouring about a gallon of brine down the
> drain, it suddenly struck me that -- other than having had raw turkey in
> it for a while -- there wasn't anything wrong with it at all.
>
> Is there some reasonable way to reuse a brine mixture?


A brine in which raw meat was kept for a period of time is reason enough why
I would not keep or use it again. Brine is cheap to make. Why take the
risk?

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