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[EX Q]: What are some alternatives to using acetate strips? I'm not interested in a specific application here, so feel free to give ideas for all types of techniques. Under what culinary circumstances, if any, can they be substituted with a silpat? Parchment paper? Other types of plastic?
[EX A]: Alternatives to acetate?

[EX Q]: Most of the recipes that call for crispy chicken mention that you must leave the skin on. That's what crisps.Is it possible to make crispy chicken without skin?
[EX A]: Crisping Chicken Without Skin

[EX Q]: i love pan fried chicken usually with some tumeric, salt, pepper, rosemarry, and evoo. Anyways, I don't like to get my thermo dirty everytime, and sometimes i get it a bit overdone, sometimes the oppsite
[EX A]:
Which non penetrating method is recommended to check chicken breasts for done-ness when pan fried