Dry Chicken Breasts? You are Salting Them At The Wrong Time

Salting your meat in advance AKA Dry Brining is known to enhance flavor and tenderness in chicken breast, but when is the ideal time to salt it? Should you salt your chicken breasts right before cooking, an hour in advance, four hours, a DAY?!?! In this video, I salted ten different chicken breast at different times to determine the best time so you don't waste a second of your time.

Want to know the difference between Dry brining, wet brining and marinating?

[studiocdesignllc]

Straight to the point! Loved your approach! Gonna go with 3 hours! Should be good.

[helmutkrusemann]

Don’t get me wrong, but I love you and your channel and I really appreciate that you made the Video I asked for! God bless you and thank you very much for everything

[acepokemontrainer]

Great video and helpful application! I really like how you set up the experiment with blinding and controls.

[HobiesGarageBBQ]

Excellent non-biased experiment! Very good to know. I'm heading over to watch your brining video.

[carlitobrigante]

I tried the 16 hours plus salt marinated chicken breasts followed by 2 hours coated with adobe sauce and they were juicy and tender after grilling. Thank you for sharing the test results.

[RV-there-Yet]

Briliant! Loved that you did this, as it's a question I actually had~ just today in fact. Dry brining chicken breast that will be added to my homemade chicken soup~ AFTER the stock/soup are all done, of course. So tomorrow we should have some mighty fine chicken soup=)
Thanks so much for sharing this, much appreciated. Now I'm off to see which brining/marinating method won out in the next post recommended.

[txfieros]

Great info. I’m sure I could apply this to a turkey breast as well.

[trebuchet]

One factor not mentioned is thickness of the chicken. 1 hour minimum is a good rule of thumb anyway, but for thinner cuts, you may be able to do 30 min with good results. Thickness makes a bigger difference for things like pork butt, which you have to brine overnight if you want good results.

[luisem]

Nothing like watching chicken brine videos at midnight. Got mine salted and in the fridge right now 😂

[meirowsky]

Very interesting and confirms my instinct that it's best to prep them the night before you cook.

[mjg]

Thanks for the tips, What is your view on poking holes in the chicken while brining and in general? Is that good or bad? and Why?

[Konqer]

You deserved more attention with that video

[Musicagine]

U should make a video vith water and salt

[steveradanovich]

How is your video doing in Sri Lanka? Just wondering.

[d.t.]

One unanswered question: How much salt?

[lindsaysmith]

I'm wondering if there is a benefit to slicing the chicken up ahead of time and salt brining more coverage? I just always think "how is that brine going to get inside the inner most chicken?"

[Buford_T_Justice]

Would this also apply to rubs that have salt in them already?

[patpaof]

What about chicken with skin, do we salt under the skin or will the salt from the skin go through to the chicken aswell ?

I know salting the skin will make it crispy, just asking for the meat

[jmnorris]

Heres a rando question - do you only salt brine and add other seasoning later or can you add other seasoning while salt brining?

[lware]

Did you leave uncovered in fridge for 24 hours or covered?