brining

For all of you who claim that no method of cooking a turkey even comes close to being as good as a deep-fried turkey, well, you'll get no argument from me. For me though, as Inspector Harry Callahan once observed, "a man's got to know his limitations." Risking incineration of my house for a delicious plate of turkey is beyond that limit.

For the last 5 years or so, my wife Amy has been brining our Thanksgiving Day turkeys. I've discussed this several times on the air, and inevitably, I get requests for her recipe, or at least an explanation of why I think this is the absolute best way to prepare the bird...