Marinating and brining
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Description
Marinades and brines are pre-cooking treatments that push flavour and moisture into food — but they work through completely different mechanisms, and confusing the two produces bad results. Brining works through osmosis and diffusion: salt penetrates deep into protein over hours, altering its structure to retain more moisture during cooking. Marinades add surface flavour through acid and aromatics but penetrate only a few millimetres — they are a surface treatment, not a deep infusion. Understanding which tool to use and how deep it reaches is the difference between seasoned-to-the-bone and flavoured-on-the-surface.
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