Cooking without skin

sweetpea7441
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Hi. How come its better to cook your chicken without the skin? I don't eat the skin, but its so much easier to grill it with the skin on and then remove it. Does it make such a difference? We don't do skinless meats here and I LOVE chicken legs. Thanks.
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i guess when you cook it with the skin you release all the fat that's in the skin. That way it ends up on your plate somehow?
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Thats what I figured, but absolutely hate touching raw chicken legs... Ugh... Nevermind having to pull the skin off... :-)0
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It's not necessarily "better", just means the finished product is lower fat, since a lot of fat is stored under the skin. Removing the skin can also make the chicken much drier as it cooks. After tracking both, I decided that there's not enough of a calorie difference in it to make it worth it. I leave skin on and it tastes much better - keeps the meat moist as it cooks. If the skin ends up crispy, I eat it (yum!), if it's still kind of flabby (due to cooking method) I just remove it once it's cooked. In the end, it depends if the extra calories or fat bothers you.0
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Haha, i totally understand the no touching of the raw chicken!
I do it like Jester does, cook it with it and if it's crispy I'll eat it, if not, i chuck it.0
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