Tim Chin is a professional cook and writer who has contributed to Serious Eats and America’s Test Kitchen. A graduate of The International Culinary Center, Tim has cooked at restaurants in New York and Boston, working at Rouge Tomate, Northern Spy, and BiSq.

Tim Chin

For many folks, Thanksgiving is synonymous with Butterball turkey. A Butterball’s promise of juicy, succulent, and tender meat—no matter how you cook it—is hard to pass up. And if it’s your one shot in the year to cook a turkey, why stress when you can depend on a sure thing? We love that! We just wanted to make it even better.This is our take on a Butterball turkey—super-juicy and tender, but not watered down in flavor, and certainly not overcooked. You can call it the Betterball.

DIY Butterball Turkey