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-Foxy- Title: Moderator Ãœber Brat Posts: 6,565 Registered: 2002-5-29 21:46:17	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
	Cawlin posted: Parboiling is a completely legit and in fact useful technique for sausages. However, with the exception of the beer, I can't see how adding anything else to the boiling liquid would do anything noticeable, and I'd even suspect the beer of being somewhat overkill. If you don't parboil sausages, they tend to get very dry if you grill them through, or underdone if you try to keep them from drying out. People get kind of squeamish about undercooked sausages. I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that. arent they already pretty salty? i dont eat them that i knwo of. unless we call them something else here. we have sausages we bbq . anyways, wouldnt bringing make them way too salty? -----signature----- Long suffering vassal to Xarkath, U.P. - Forever and ever
Cawlin Posts: 1,759 Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Cawlin Posts: 1,759 Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42	-Foxy- posted: Cawlin posted: Parboiling is a completely legit and in fact useful technique for sausages. However, with the exception of the beer, I can't see how adding anything else to the boiling liquid would do anything noticeable, and I'd even suspect the beer of being somewhat overkill. If you don't parboil sausages, they tend to get very dry if you grill them through, or underdone if you try to keep them from drying out. People get kind of squeamish about undercooked sausages. I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that. arent they already pretty salty? i dont eat them that i knwo of. unless we call them something else here. we have sausages we bbq . anyways, wouldnt bringing make them way too salty? Well I don't know if it would or not... that's why I posted: Cawlin posted: I wonder what brining sausages would do... may have to try that. Not to be a dick or anything but I'm just saying... I really don't know how it all would work out. The issue is keeping sausages moist while cooking them through and without it taking eleventy hours to do so... While the salty water of the brine does cause more salt to enter the cells of the meat via diffusion, it ALSO causes more liquids to enter the cells of the meat via osmosis and I believe capillary action. As the meat draws in liquid, it will draw in flavors suspended in that liquid too... Brining can carry flavors into the meat very effectively - often more effectively than direct injection syringes. For example, I brine pork chops with a mixture of salt water, garlic, and apple cider - they pick up a very noticeable apple flavor from doing that. The thing is, I don't know what flavors you'd want to add to brats... -----signature----- If ignorance were painful, half the posters here would be on morphine drips. Everyone playing WoW knows everything about playing two classes: 1) their own and 2) Hunters
Silverwuf Title: Have trike will babble Posts: 1,129 Registered: 2001-7-5 14:44:35	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
	jonus156 posted: poke holes in them soak in beer and onions for 3-4 hours then boil them for awhile then grill them There are people here that would kill you for poking holes in brats. -----signature----- Women who behave themselves rarely make history. My Give-A-Damn's Busted. http://www.thewufs.com/2003venture/motortrike.htm
Cawlin Posts: 1,759 Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
Cawlin Posts: 1,759 Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42	Silverwuf posted: jonus156 posted: poke holes in them soak in beer and onions for 3-4 hours then boil them for awhile then grill them There are people here that would kill you for poking holes in brats. Yeah, see, in the whole struggle to get them adequately cooked without drying them out, I can't believe that poking holes in the casing isn't going to do more harm than good.... -----signature----- If ignorance were painful, half the posters here would be on morphine drips. Everyone playing WoW knows everything about playing two classes: 1) their own and 2) Hunters
BritonGuy Title: Serious Business Posts: 1,567 Registered: 2004-3-4 20:43:50	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Do you boil your brats in beer, butter and onions before you put them on the grill?
	I eat them raw like a real man then punch a saber toothed tiger in the face and sound a ceremonial roar to Odin. -----signature----- Briton Guy...persnickety...NEVER! -Murron (truly) Hawkson is the greatest. -Hawkson Britonguy is usually right. -Onslaught on BT â€œDo or do not... there is no try.â€ - Yodazami Do you expect me to remember what I put in my mouth? -NSMachi

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