Salting out

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Salting out

Serious eats mentioned a thing called "salting out" in a wet brine. Whereby, salt moves into the bird, while larger flavor molecules will exit into the water.

So wet brining bad for 2 reasons,

1. Will remove flavor molecules

2. Generally dilute the existing juices.

Provided the above is correct. Here's my theory (which is wrong but I just want to see what you think)

It's OK to wet-brine white meat(Chicken breast) because it's bland anyway, its juices are not as flavorful as dark meat.

Anybody think that's correct?

On a side note, does dark meat contain more flavorful juice than white meat, like a higher concentration of flavor to plain water.