One time on Usenet, Steve Wertz > said:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:27:16 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
> > Just read the latest issue of Cook's Illustrated. Turkey day is coming,
> > and we'll have the usual brining in garbage bag thing coming up.
> > I'm in the 'garbage bags are not food grade ... or manufactured in a
> > food sterile environment' camp.
> >
> > This was an interesting recommendation I could get behind. I've
> > seen the ads ... those Zip Lock bags for storing large items ... like
> > pillows and stuff. The magazine says they are food grade ... and
> > I believe it, I doubt they built a new factory to make the larger bags
> > separately from the food ones.
>
> The problem with plastic bags is that it's nearly impossible to
> get the bird evenly covered with brine. Sure you can flip the
> around every few hours, but the two times I've tried that I still
> ended up with a very unevenly brined bird.

I was envisioning lining a big cooler with the bag...


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