Curing of turmeric involves cooking of fresh turmericrhizomes in boiling water for approximately about 60 minutesand is an essential unit operation to be done before drying.Curing in boiling water destroys the vitality of fresh rhizomes,avoids the raw odour, reduces the drying time and yieldsuniformly coloured product. The curing of turmeric is doneby different methods in different places and the time variesfrom 1 to 12 hr. The objective of the present paper was tocompare the curing of turmeric by cooking in boiling water,steam cooking, water dipping, slicing and to determine itseffect on drying time and quality of cured turmeric rhizomes.