Is there any use for tuna brine?

This_Year

Whenever we open a tin of tuna, OH has always saved the brine into an old margarine pot in the freezer (he also does this with tinned sweetcorn water which we use for chinese - crab or chicken & sweetcorn soup). We now have 500ml of tuna brine and I asked him what his intention was, what we would use it for - I envisaged it being for maybe a fish stock?

He then told me he didn't know of a use for it but didn't want to waste it. :wall:

I've googled but can't find any uses (at the moment I think it would be best thawed and washed down the sink! :rotfl: ) but part of me thinks it would be a waste.

Anyone got any ideas?

tanith

No! its salt water , why would you want to use that in anything? throw it away.

pigpen

I get the tuna in spring water so I can just use it.. I hate brine.. but I don't like salt.

I guess it would be useful for soaking blood out of fabric.. though it would smell fishy afterwards!! lol

jane_smith

If you have a cat you could mix a few teaspoons of the tuna brine with dry food for a treat?

.....or if you're looking for something really MSE to use it all up you could fill your lounge room with sand, put a spotlight in the corner in the position of the sun, paint some waves on the wall, sprinkle the brine around and have the cheapest beach holiday ever.

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jane_smith wrote: »

If you have a cat you could mix a few teaspoons of the tuna brine with dry food for a treat?

.....or if you're looking for something really MSE to use it all up you could fill your lounge room with sand, put a spotlight in the corner in the position of the sun, paint some waves on the wall, sprinkle the brine around and have the cheapest beach holiday ever.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Brilliant

meritaten

I just pour it away down the sink - do I think 'Oh dear, I am sure there is a use for that'? NO. I cannot think of one single thing to do with it.
Well done to JackieO - I couldn't have come up with TWO in a million years!!!!!!!!!!!!

theoretica

Use it for added flavour where you would be using salt anyway - eg boiling pasta. But probably a can or two at a time, not the full half litre!

kittycat204

You can brine fish before smoking it. So I presume you could use it for that.

ska_lover

Defrost it and use it for ground bait for fishing.

kitschkitty

Personally I wouldn't keep it BUT I just had a thought you could use it to moisten mashed potatoes (cooked without salt) for making fish cakes extra fishy or as part of a stock for fish dishes?

This_Year

jane_smith wrote: »

If you have a cat you could mix a few teaspoons of the tuna brine with dry food for a treat?

.....or if you're looking for something really MSE to use it all up you could fill your lounge room with sand, put a spotlight in the corner in the position of the sun, paint some waves on the wall, sprinkle the brine around and have the cheapest beach holiday ever.

THAT is brilliant!

Thank everyone. Think I'll be using a spoonful or so in fishy dishes.