There isn't always time to let meats sit in a coating of salt overnight in your refrigerator. Here's what to do instead of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A goal of the Thanksgiving host is to deliver a beautifully cooked turkey with golden-brown crisp skin and juicy meat. Achieving ...

Discover why turkey often turns out dry and how the science of brining can solve this problem. Learn how salt, through both wet and dry brines, changes muscle fibers, reduces moisture loss, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...