Ep. 328: Test My Meat
The MeatEater Podcast
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What's the Difference Between Salt and Corned Beef?
O cooks ated published a brine recipe that ends up being about 15 % solidity. Some people say it's north of 20%. What'll end up happening is that the exact opposite will take place. The salt chemically, when it breaks apart in a and c ls, you have sodium and chlorine,. so or chloride. So those two things can bond to the they can Bond to the chemical elements of the meat itself. And so what they end up doing is that they then break the cellular structure of the meat themselves - drawing water back out.
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