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Posted: 8/15/2015 9:20:57 AM EDT
Alright,
So I usually marinade/brine my chops with cider vinegar, olive oil, sugar, spices, etc.  I'm brining a batch today, but realized I'm out of cider vinegar.  Would white vinegar work?  Maybe add applesauce?
Link Posted: 8/17/2015 12:04:56 AM EDT
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The molecules of almost all those things are too large to penetrate meat in the time you have. Salt will penetrate, though. Salt it, or soak it in a 3 percent brine (that is, weigh the meat and water in grams and add 30 grams of salt for each 1000 grams of meat/water), and give it 24 hours to equalize the salt throughout the meat.




Add the rest of the stuff as a rub before you cook the meat, as it's just a surface treatment anyway. Surface treatments make a difference, too, but deep salt penetration makes a pork loin succulent, rather than dry.


 
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