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To: JACKRUSSELL

Here is one I bet you don’t know. You know you have enough salt in your brine water for curing hams when an egg will float in it.


5 posted on 05/04/2008 5:32:31 AM PDT by eastforker (Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
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To: eastforker

You know you have enough salt in your brine water for curing hams when an egg will float in it.

Using what? A boiled, raw, or stale egg as an indicator.


9 posted on 05/04/2008 5:42:53 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No black racist Muslims in the WH either)
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To: eastforker
enough salt in your brine water for curing hams

Also interesting, I use a potato.

35 posted on 05/04/2008 6:23:29 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: eastforker
You know you have enough salt in your brine water for curing hams when an egg will float in it.

Well, that's certainly more cost-effective than having to make enough brine water to see if Michael Moore will float in it. :0)

101 posted on 05/04/2008 2:15:39 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("McCain is a war hero. He's also a useful idiot for the Democrats." - Mark Levin)
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