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Quick Turkey (or salt) Question
endlesswaltz
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Happy Friday, all!
I'm trying to roast a turkey for a party tomorrow evening, an early Thanksgiving combined with a friend's going away party. (The actual roasting will happen tomorrow.)
I was stupid enough to buy a huge turkey (20.5 pounds?) but I have been thawing it in the fridge since like Tuesday so I'm pretty sure I'm okay with that part. Since I want to make a good tasting turkey despite its size, I think I'm going to try to brine it. Now, I've found a plastic bucket suitable for the size so that's good too.
The problem is, all of the brining recipes require "kosher" salt. I don't have kosher salt at home, and I don't really feel like going out and buying it just for this. What I do have is those coarse grain sea salt. I've been looking up on wikipedia, and they say the major difference between regular table salt and kosher salt is that table salt has iodine and kosher doesn't. Also, sea salt is said to not have iodine.
So my question is, would it be okay to substitute kosher salt for turkey brine with sea salt?
I'm trying to roast a turkey for a party tomorrow evening, an early Thanksgiving combined with a friend's going away party. (The actual roasting will happen tomorrow.)
I was stupid enough to buy a huge turkey (20.5 pounds?) but I have been thawing it in the fridge since like Tuesday so I'm pretty sure I'm okay with that part. Since I want to make a good tasting turkey despite its size, I think I'm going to try to brine it. Now, I've found a plastic bucket suitable for the size so that's good too.
The problem is, all of the brining recipes require "kosher" salt. I don't have kosher salt at home, and I don't really feel like going out and buying it just for this. What I do have is those coarse grain sea salt. I've been looking up on wikipedia, and they say the major difference between regular table salt and kosher salt is that table salt has iodine and kosher doesn't. Also, sea salt is said to not have iodine.
So my question is, would it be okay to substitute kosher salt for turkey brine with sea salt?
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But bakers beware. Kosher salt weighs at least 26 percent less by volume than table salt. That means if you use a 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt in a recipe calling for 1/4 teaspoon of table salt, you’re adding too little. And different brands of kosher salt have different-size flakes, says Susan Reid, editor of The Baking Sheet newsletter from King Arthur Flour. That makes it hard to come up with an absolute rule of thumb for substituting kosher salt for table salt in recipes. Reid recommends this method: When a recipe calls for a teaspoon of table salt (or 1/4 or 1/2, etc.), use a rounded teaspoon (or 1/4 or 1/2, etc.) of kosher salt. The CHOW test kitchen, which always uses Diamond brand kosher salt, follows a 1-2 ratio of table to kosher salt.
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