A goal of the Thanksgiving host is to deliver a beautifully cooked turkey with golden-brown crisp skin and juicy meat. Achieving the latter is no easy task, but there's a surefire way to ensure your ...

For years, most of the turkeys cooked in the Free Press Test Kitchen were brined in some fashion. When brining became all the rage in the late 1990s, we hopped aboard. A few years ago, New York Times ...

Thanksgiving is the biggest food holiday of the year. While it’s nice to sit down and enjoy that one huge special meal, it can be a challenge to pull it off. And the centerpiece of many tables — the ...

It’s time to talk turkey. And when we talk turkey, we talk brining. Before my job editing here at NorthJersey.com and the USA Today Network New Jersey, I was for many years a food writer and editor at ...

Thanksgiving is a holiday when we all eat together in a spirit of warmth, kindness and loving togetherness. Unless, of course, someone mentions brining a turkey. Or brings up the matter of mashed ...

Thanksgiving is the biggest food holiday of the year. While it’s nice to sit down and enjoy that one huge special meal, it can be a challenge to pull it off. And the centerpiece of many tables — the ...

For years, I was all about the wet brine. I bought a 5-gallon plastic bucket that I referred to as “The Turkey Bucket” and only used for wet brining the bird every Thanksgiving. I’d haul the ...

It’s time to talk turkey. And when we talk turkey, we talk brining. Food is still a passion of mine — and my approach to brining has evolved over the years. What has also evolved is the food world's ...

For years, most of the turkeys cooked in the Free Press Test Kitchen were brined in some fashion. When brining became all the rage in the late 1990s, we hopped aboard. A few years ago, New York Times ...

Thanksgiving is the biggest food holiday of the year. While it’s nice to sit down and enjoy that one huge special meal, it can be a challenge to pull it off. And the centerpiece of many tables — the ...