Our guide tells you everything you need to know about brining turkey and why dry brining produces juicy meat with a more intense flavor.
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How to brine a turkey
Let me start by saying that I never brine my meat. Ever. Not for Thanksgiving not for my Sunday dinner and certainly not for a quick weeknight meal. This post is about the reasons why.
Serious Eats / J. Kenji López-Alt
It seems to me that dry turkey was a given only 15 years ago. The annual Thanksgiving ritual at my family’s dinner table did not involve poorly behaved children yelling “DAAAAAAAd Mommy ruined the turkey again” — turkey was not something that could be ruined. It was dry tough and stringy and that was a fact of life.
