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Cured Smoked Turkey Legs

Started by FLBentRider, March 27, 2008, 08:33:32 AM

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Here is a good article on brining and curing. If you look half way down it gives you the recommended times for brining. Also the times depends on the amount of salt, and nitrite (if added) in the solution. I use a low sodium brine so my brining times for turkey legs is about 8 hours. This article recommend 1-3 hours.
http://www.susanminor.org/forums/showthread.php?p=21#post21

This link has several brines you may want to check out a few. For these brines I would use the 1-3 hour brining times, because many of those recipes have a lot of salt; except for the "Low Salt Brine".
http://www.susanminor.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13

If you are making your own brine from one on the recipe site and want to add a curing salt (nitrite) and that recipe does not have that ingredient, add 5 teaspoons or 1 ounce of pink salt (InstaCure #1; Prague Powder #1 etc.) per gallon of brine.

I forgot to add stay on the high end of time for brining turkey legs.



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