Filling injector

[black_dog]

Hope this hasn't been posted before. Its so easy can't believe it hasn't been. Anyway I got tired of throwing out marinade in bowl after I injected meat so as not to contaminate bottle of marinade. So I started putting marinade in glass I could pour from. I take needle off injector unscrew plunger and put finger over needle hole pour marinade in, leaving room to wiggle plunger in and screw cap back on. I point needle hole up push air out put needle back on and inject meat. Then I repeat until I used as much marinade as I need. I pour leftover back in bottle. It goes very fast with no mess at all.

[Bbqgoddess]

Hummm... brilliant... nope not posted before, gotta give it a try! Damn! great idea! Thanks BD!

[Richtee]

Works well with the plastic types- good idea. Not so much with my metal 8 Oz. with a screw-on plunger top. I take the needle off, suck up the liquid and put the needle back on. As long as yer careful, this will work too. Or alternativly and perhaps better I could get a syringe to FILL my injector

[curious aardvark]

or simply microwave the left over marinade till it just starts to boil. this will sterilise it and once cool you can put it back in the bottle.
possibly slightly easier than all the messing about with the syringe ?

[L20A]

Works well with the plastic types- good idea. Not so much with my metal 8 Oz. with a screw-on plunger top. I take the needle off, suck up the liquid and put the needle back on. As long as yer careful, this will work too. Or alternativly and perhaps better I could get a syringe to FILL my injector

I use a turkey baster (a big bulb syringe) to fill my injector. Works great. No mess or wasted marinade. Easy clean-up, too, I just put it in the dishwasher.