Fresh brined turkeys now in stores

Did they call them Brined?

Now it HAS gone mainstream.

I wouldn't buy ANYthing that had that much water added.

So I bought one of those fresh turkey's that says it's "premium basted" with a solution. Couldn't find one that was O natural 100%. I am currently brining it and was planning on a 24 hour brine. Should I still brine it that long? I don't want it to come out too salty. I was planning on using the Cookshack spicy chicken run, sparingly, since that is a rather salty rub.

Oh and this one I believe the percentage of solution was around 8%

Kim, check out the thread Brining 202, it talks about doing what you're doing.

I'm actually brining mine 48 hours. Put them in early this morning.

They called them fresh, you had to read the smaller print.

Isn't it already brined if it is pumped full of 8 % salt water ?

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Originally posted by GLH:
Isn't it already brined if it is pumped full of 8 % salt water ?

Yes, it's it's salt water, but there's more to it, hence the article I added about Brining 202.

And some of those solutions have minimal salt, reading them close, I think it was butterball that listed 4 ingredients and the 4th was salt, so that's probably not what I'd call a brine.

I have cooked 7 brined fresh turkeys so far from Trader Joe's

They all turned out great. I can say they were defainately brined. No special brine but a brine nonetheless

I'm guessing it's a selling feature. Brine adds water, which adds weight, and you're buying by the pound, so...

you're paying extra for water.

Well. For people who don't brine, they're probably eating the most moist turkey ever and bragging about it to friends. Brings back the customers also. So Trader Joe's gains both ways.