My doc told me to “watch my salt intake.” If I brine a chicken or a turkey or a rack of ribs, how much is the normal salt content increased? I feel you. Brining is one of those things that’s easy to ...

One ingredient will make even cheap cuts of steak tender and juicy! Learn how to tenderize steaks with a salt dry brine, plus ...

Dry brining involves salting meat in advance—ideally 12 to 48 hours before cooking. You simply mix kosher salt with black ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...