My Turkey Brine

[smitty0312]

Anybody brining a turkey this year? I will smoke this bird tomorrow.....gal of apple cider, gal of water, 2 lemons, 2 oranges, 8 cloves of smashed garlic, 1cup of coarse kosher salt, 1 cup of dark brown sugar , 1Tb of red pepper flakes....

[dansnow]

I've tried brining the bird a couple of times, but it does something to the texture of the meat, giving it a different mouth feel. The next one I smoke will be without brining to see how that works.

[smitty0312]

I’ve brined the last couple of years....no problems here.....I will inject A lot of garlic butter before smoking.....

[RabidAlien]

[LarryEA]

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

[smitty0312]

30 minutes ago, LarryEA said:

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Thank You....You too Larry! 

[rjweb]

Here in Texas we are barbqueing a couple of 2 inch steaks, RJ

[bandaideman]

Happy Thanksgiving Dan. The problem I see with injecting all that garlic butter it will hurt ya and the wife will kick you out with the smell smoking can be harmful.