In the US they do. In Canada it’s illegal.
Canadian women also don’t get as many boob jobs.
Most absurd “facts” here are in the US. It’s ilegal in my coutry too
Great way to cheat the customer and also ruin recipes that don’t take into consideration that cups of salt water will come out while cooking the chicken.
… in the US.
In Finland too!
“with added water” is pretty commonly added after the chicken, pork, whatever in the ingredients list here in Estonia.
And basically all frozen chicken in US stores has been pumped full of brine. That includes raw chicken parts that look otherwise unprocessed.
same with prepacked bacon. fuck you foster farms.
The only bacon I buy now is thick stuff from Costco (there are two or three brands that are good at my local one), or from a butcher shop. and not even all the stuff from Costco is decent, they still carry the shitty watered down thin fatty stuff.
nothing else is worth it. I will gladly pay $22/kg for bacon that doesn’t suck and two slices are an actual serving rather than $24/kg for a tiny shitty 400g package that contains basically just one serving. but I’m also buying it only occasionally in the first place.
I’m $75 away from smoking my own
Don’t worry, you can get it precooked!
Because that’s literally how you make bacon…
that’s one way to make bacon
Well… Not really in Denmark. At least not salt water.
Packaging on chicken often has it written on the from if there is any water inside, and if I’m not mistaken, it’s not allowed to exceed a certain percentage.
There may be reasons why people might specifically want to buy chicken with water inside, so some supermarkets here sell both, one that has an statement on the amount of water inside, and another that will say “ikke tilsat vand”.
not allowed to exceed a certain percentage
America fired all the inspector-types, though, as conservative governments usually do on about day 1. So now consumers get to protect themselves the same way they ‘did their own’ epidemiological research in the last pandemic.
This is been a thing since Reagan though, it gets worse under the Republican administrations but it does not get much better under the Democrats. We get more fucked every cycle.
The turkeys I buy on sale in bulk when I can, 50 cents a pound, have 15% of a salt solution with some other salted bullshit some phosphate or I don’t know I’ve been meaning to look it up. Probably not great for you though knowing the US Food supply.
I moved to Portugal last year and I can say that the supermarket chicken here does need a lot more seasoning (to my taste) than US chicken did. I am hoping it will help cut down my overall salt intake.
People didn’t know this?
Same for many meats. Red meats are often sealed with O2 to appear redder.or “fresher” than was natural, for many extra days on the shelf.
Meat not from a butcher is usually the lowest quality and actually more expensive considering the liquid weights.
There are valid reasons to brine a chicken, this is just an extreme way to do so. The salt affects how muscle proteins behave during cooking, partially it prevents them contracting too much, thus in turn preventing the muscles from squeezing out so much liquid that they become dry. lower temperature cooking for a longer time can achieve the same effect and won’t dilute the flavor of the chicken.
Any reasonable step of preparation like brining poultry can be taken too far or done excessively, especially by companies seeking to maximize shareholder value by selling as little product as possible for the highest price. pre-brining chicken isn’t always bad, but it’s not always what you want.
Buy meat at the butcher’s
Not just chicken, basically anything that says “VALUE ADDED” on it. The saltwater is the value.
I can cook a whole packed pan of chicken wings (on top of each other) and when they are done there is 3 inches of space between them and a huge pool of liquid in the drip pan. It’s insane how much they can inject in them.
And if they add caramel, they can advertise it as salted caramel chicken! I mean, why not? Everything else is salted caramel. Disgusting stuff.
Pumpkin Spice Chicken.
Brace for the ice limit.
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Depending on product injecting salt water is necessary - one reason is to form it into nice shape, the other is to inhibit bacteria that could produce botulin toxin in the product.
