Has anyone brined a turkey and regretted it/not liked it?

[PassTheTwiglets]

Did anyone not like the taste (I know everyone says it's not salty but do you double triple promise me?!)

Everyone who has ever brined a turkey liked it. They told me.

It doesn't taste as much as juicify.

Juicify - I like it :)

Never done it with turkey, but the recipe I user for southern fried chicken brines it and it's delicious.

I have brined a turkey the last couple of years and the turkey doesn't get salty just juicy.

I did it last year and didn't notice the slightest bit of difference - despite shelling out a small fortune for all the various spices etc to go into the brine!

I double triple promise you it's not salty. Not 100% sure it's worth the effort though.

I farted around for hours during the Nigella "we must all fill a tub with wondrous stuff and bathe a turkey" year - and noticed not one iota of difference. Except for all the liquid on the kitchen floor.

Oh dear, Hassled! :)

I think it looks really fun to do - it's the sort of cooking I love, chucking loads of ingredients in but no real effort. But then the other half of me wants to buy a ncie bronze or black turkey and just cook it as normal.
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seriously, nigella promised me my guests would "weep with greedy gratitude" but not one tear.... not one!

It didn't make any difference

If money was no object, I'd buy 4 turkeys to cook at the same time and compare - one bronze, one black, one bog-standard superkarket white unbrined and one bog-standard supermarket white brined. Doing different ones each year means you forget from one year to the next what they taste like!