Is it because I love chicken? I’m really more of a duck person. Is it because I just had to know which trussing method would reign supreme in a two-day chicken-roasting battle? Yes. For my own ...

If you’ve ever roasted a whole chicken for dinner, or tackled the big task of roasting the turkey for Thanksgiving, you probably know the importance of tying up the bird, or ‘trussing.’ ...

When you're making rotisserie chicken, trussing is an important step that involves tying the legs and wings of the chicken close to its body. You might already know that the best kind of twine for ...

If you’ve ever roasted a whole chicken for dinner, or tackled the big task of roasting the turkey for Thanksgiving, you probably know the importance of tying up the bird, or ‘trussing.’ ...

Trussing, or tying up the wings and legs of a chicken, is an important step in roasting a whole bird evenly; it ensures evenly-cooked, moist meat, and prevents anything stuffed inside from falling ...

In a reminder that Jacques Pépin is just like us, sometimes he’ll truss a chicken for roasting — and sometimes he won’t. For a French-style presentation, he likes to use butcher twine to ...

Or maybe it’s the intimidation of staring at an entire chicken on a cutting board, string in hand, trying to figure out what the heck “truss” means? Perhaps it’s just the convenience ...