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Chatted with a guy at the butcher counter about air fryer chicken thighs
He told me to stop flipping them halfway and just let them sit skin side down for the whole 18 minutes at 375. Tried it last night and the skin was actually crispy instead of rubbery, never going back to flipping again. Anyone else get weirdly good tips from random grocery store workers?
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the_ben1mo agoMost Upvoted
Ngl that's actually brilliant. Butcher counter guys see way more meat in a day than most of us cook in a year so they know their stuff. The whole flipping thing is just habit from cooking burgers or something but chicken thighs have enough fat to render out and crisp up without touching them. Makes me wonder what other cooking rules we follow that don't actually make sense.
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shanel131mo ago
Wait, @the_ben, for real, you're not supposed to flip chicken thighs at all?
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