BRINE FOR PRIME RIB RECIPE RECIPES

Steps:

• For brine:.
• Combine 1 quart water and all remaining ingredients in medium saucepan.
• Bring to boil, stirring until sugar and salt dissolve.
• Pour brine into wide pot or container large enough to hold pork (3- to 4-gallon capacity).
• Add remaining 5 quarts cold water; stir to blend.
• Let stand until brine is cool to touch, about 1 hour.
• For pork:.
• Place pork on work surface.
• Trim off all but 1/4-inch layer of fat from roast.
• Turn roast over so that rib bones point up.
• Using boning knife and starting where meat meets rib bones, gradually cut loin away from rack of bones, leaving 2 inches of meat attached to bones (do not cut meat off bones completely).
• Tie meat back onto bones with kitchen string at 2-inch intervals.
• Place roast in brine, submerging pork completely and weighing down with heavy pot if necessary.
• Cover and refrigerate 5 days.
• Remove pork from brine; discard brine.
• Rinse pork under cold running water for 5 minutes to reduce saltiness; pat dry with paper towels.
• Place pork on rack set over sheet of foil; let stand at room temperature 2 hours.
• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 400°F
• Place pork on rack in large roasting pan.
• Mix thyme and crushed peppercorns in small bowl; sprinkle mixture over pork.
• Roast until instant-read thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 140F, about 1 hour.
• Remove from oven.
• Let roast rest 30 minutes (internal temperature of roast will increase 5 to 10 degrees).
• Remove kitchen string from roast.
• Cut meat into slices and serve.

Steps:

• Stir warm water, coffee, kosher salt, onion soup mix, onion, garlic, and Worcestershire sauce in a 16-quart stock pot until salt and onion soup mix has dissolved. Lay roast in the brine and cover pot; refrigerate at least 8 hours. Turn roast over at least twice during brining.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Remove roast from brine and pat dry with paper towels. Place roast on a rack in a roasting pan with the fat side down; sprinkle with garlic powder, onion powder, and black pepper. Flip roast and season other side the same way. Let roast stand until it reaches room temperature, about 1 hour.
• Place roast into preheated oven and bake for 1 hour.
• Turn off heat and leave meat in the hot oven, without opening oven door, for 3 hours. Turn oven back on and set heat for 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Let roast reheat until an instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the center of the roast reads 130 degrees F (54 degrees C) for medium-rare, 30 to 40 minutes.