Knowing how to brine a turkey could save you (and your family!) from years of dry Thanksgiving turkeys to come. Here are our five easy steps to achieve brining magic. Thanksgiving dinner used to be ...

Dry brining is easier, requiring only that you prepare the rub and then massage it into the turkey's skin. Wet brining, on the other hand, requires you to make and cool a solution before applying it, ...

Last year, in the week before Thanksgiving, I made a solemn promise to you faithful readers. Heed my word, I vowed. This will be the very last time I’ll publish the legendary Kass Turkey Brining ...

Brining is similar to marinating, but is primarily focused on moistening the meat as opposed to adding flavor. Brining your Thanksgiving turkey prior to cooking will help ensure you end up with a ...

In my paean to pork a few weeks ago, I made a throwaway reference to brining. Judging from the e-mails that came in asking for more details -- Just how much salt? Exactly how long? And what about ...

Every year, about the time little children rush home from school to tell their parents that the Pilgrims were repressive Eurocentric fundamentalists with guns, I receive piteous pleas from readers ...

Dear Thanksgiving cooks of America: On behalf of food writers everywhere, I apologize. For nearly two decades now, many of us have suggested that you plunge your turkey into a bucket of flavored ...

Brining is a popular method to help add flavor and maintain moisture in your whole turkey and it is mostly used around Thanksgiving, but Chef Bobby Flay says brining turkey breast meat you put in the ...

FROM THE TIMES ARCHIVES — If someone told you to go soak your bird, you might take offense. But it could be the best cooking advice you’ve ever gotten. Brining--essentially soaking meat or poultry in ...