A study by Dr. Gülşah Çalışkan Koç reveals innovative defrosting techniques that preserve the quality and safety of frozen ...

There’s a right way and a very wrong way to defrost food, and no, leaving it on the counter isn’t one of the best.

Flat-packing ground beef before freezing will make for quicker thawing. Thawing in the microwave is the fastest method, but requires you to flip and rotate the beef as it thaws, as well as cook it ...

What now? Can you just cook it from frozen? Is thawing in the microwave an option? Here’s how to handle classic Christmas foods to get them ready to eat. Turkey Thaw in the fridge for several ...

There are three methods of thawing chicken that are recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): in the refrigerator, in cold water, and in the microwave. The first two offer the ...

Once the chicken has thawed, “it must be cooked immediately after thawing,” Carothers says. The USDA includes microwave defrosting in their list of safe defrosting methods, but our Test ...