Brine‪!‬ 4+

Name: Brine!
Price: 0.99 USD
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Foodlab GmbH

Foodlab GmbH

专为 iPad 设计

- 3.0 • 2 个评分

- US$0.99

简介

Brine! - The Brining Calculator
Finally an easy way to calculate your brining recipe.

Do you brine your meat, poultry, fish and seafood?
You should! Brining makes your meal juicier, tender and more flavourful!
Brining will improve your perfect thanksgiving turkey just as easily as your BBQ meat.

Are you unsure how exactly you should brine your produce?
Or deterred by complicated percentages and procedures?
Then you need this app!

Recipes, background knowledge and calculators: "Brine!" includes everything you need to master your brining game!

Equilibrium brining, wet gradient brining or dry brining, it's all in the app so that you can use your favourite technique.

KEY FEATURES:

• CUSTOM RECIPES for Fish fillet, shrimps, chicken, duck and turkey as well as pork and beef. Your favourite meat isn't listed? No worries: You can easily adapt an existing recipe!

• CALCULATORS EVERYWHERE: Your thanksgiving turkey is heavier than in the recipe? Somebody invited the neighbours to your BBQ? When it comes to brining, these things make a huge difference! We include calculators everywhere so you don't have to worry about it.

• YOU'RE THE EXPERT? Use the custom calculator to use your own preferred final salt concentrations in your food.

• BACKGROUND KNOW-HOW: What brining process should I use for what meat? What final salt concentration? How much salt should I use, and should I add sugar or curing salt? These and more questions about processes and principles are answered and bring you up to speed quickly.

• BRINING TECHNIQUES: Equilibrium brining, wet gradient bringing and dry brining are the three important techniques in brining. Which one is best? It depends! Because each process has ist own advantages, we let you decide. Switch between techniques easily!

WHY BRINE BEFORE COOKING?
When brining, salt (and sometimes sugar and curing salt) penetrates into the meat before cooking. This has multiple desired effects:

• JUICIER PRODUCE: Brining before cooking makes meat, poultry, fish and seafood juicier. Even after cooking is finished, the brined food will retain more moisture.

• FLAVOUR: The brining mixture slowly enters the produce through osmosis. During the cooking process, it becomes evenly distributed throughout the produce and enhances ist taste!

• SURFACE TEXTURE: You're aiming for a beautifully brown and flavourful bark? Brining, especially dry brining, will help you! Through the high salt concentration, the outer protein layer partially brakes down, encouraging a quicker Maillard reaction. Wonderful flavours and a bite to match!

All the brining knowledge you need - summarized in one compact app with custom calculators.

DOWNLOAD "Brine!" NOW!

App content in English only.

We are always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please contact us at app@tastelab.ch.

2023年11月29日

版本 2.5.1

App updated to work better with newer iOS versions

3.0（满分 5 分）

2 个评分

Not for “Everything!”

I purchased this app without reading all the information. My fault. When I saw the title, “Brine Everything” I actually thought it meant everything, including vegetables. Well, no. It’s for brining meat only. It looks great for that purpose, but I wanted to know how much with veggies only. i’d love to get my money back since I plan to delete the app, but I don’t think that’s possible. My loss. Don’t make the same mistake. Read the details first.

Basic but good.

This is really a “no frills” app. You basically select the type of protein you want to brine, the method you want to use to brine it and then the weight of your protein and the weight of the water you’re going to use (if not dry brining). The app then figures out what amount of salt and sugar to add to the water and how long to brine it for. These are all things you could figure out by using the Internet, but at least here you have it all in one convenient app. I haven’t actually used it in a real life situation yet, but I have put in some values based on detailed past cooking notes I keep for all my long cooks. The surprising thing is that the app routinely recommends brining times extending over several days (7 days for a 14 pound pork shoulder for example). I suppose this is probably accurate for equilibrium brining, but I don’t think I have ever brined anything more than 24 hours or so (which does not mean I was doing it scientifically accurately, just following a typical recipe). I’m curious to try it out and see if it makes a difference. My only complaint with the app is that while you can switch the default metric temperature and length units used by the app to the U.S. system of degrees Fahrenheit and inches, you can’t switch the metric mass units in the calculator from grams to pounds and ounces. That means you have to convert the weight of your proteins to grams, weigh your water in grams and measure out your sugar and salt in grams. Most modern food scales will allow you to switch to grams easily enough, but you’re still going to have to do some of your own conversions. The developers should update this app to allow full in-app metric/US system toggling for all values.