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#1: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Mar 26, 2020

Preheat two equal diameter cast iron frying pans on the gas grill on high. Marinate 4 bone-in skin-on chicken thighs in a half cup of olive oil and more of your favorite salt-based seasoning mix than you think is prudent. I've tried BBQ, Greek, Mediterranean, middle eastern... any seasoning mixture with salt seems to work. When pans are HOT, place the chicken in the bottom pan and place the bottom of the second pan onto the chicken. Discard the excess oil or reserve for next time.

Close lid on grill and set a timer for 20 minutes. No peeking! Chicken comes out tender juicy inside and crispy outside top and bottom. Other cuts of chicken work but skinless boneless breast takes a few minutes less.

Try it and let me know how it goes.

I wish I had a grill at hand!

It works in an oven too. I'd go with 500 degrees F

Jota, glad to hear that you are better. I have a question not relating to chicken. I recently introduced my sister to the joys of webpbn. When she finished a puzzle, the "Yahoo you solved it" in red letters didn't appear. Do you know why?

Sounds great.

Vicki, my experience is that when I thought I had finished but I didn't get the Yahoo, it was always because I had missed filling in a pixel. It sometimes happened with larger puzzles or if I hadn't dotted some empty squares, expecting the system to do it when I saved at the end. I think you can trust the system on this one. Your sister can dot all the empty squares and the puzzle will indicate a red dot error for the row and/or column that contains the missing pixel(s).

Also if you can't find the empty cell, clicking on the Hint button will help you narrow it down.

Brian, I can almost taste it. I have neither a grill nor cast iron pans, and I don't know if it's the quarantine, but I now have a compulsion to make a reasonable facsimile after my next grocery order is delivered (my first ever grocery delivery, schedule backed up until a week from now). Do you think it would work with aluminum baking tins in the oven, one set over the other? Any stovetop suggestions?

Norma, I'm just killing myself laughing. I have never used the Hint button, not because I'm pigheaded but because in all these years I never noticed that it was there. I guess that at some point in the distant past it just became part of the wallpaper. After I read your post I went back to one of Aldège's puzzles that I had gotten stuck on. I clicked on Hint - first time I've ever seen the purple arrow - and solved it in less than 5 minutes. Your hint about the Hint was the one I needed.

Glad to be of service, Lollipop. :)

Wow, I use it like a maniac. I hit the "L" on my keyboard all the time to save time looking for the next spot. Some might call it cheating. But I view it like I view the L key: a shortcut.

Thanks Vicki, i'm sure all the moments above will help!

Lollipop - The weight and thermal conductivity of the top pan is probably important. If you were to try it with the aluminum tins, I would put a bunch of pennies into the top one to give it the extra weight and thermal mass. (Wrap some foil around them if they aren't clean.)

Vicki - If she wasn't logged in, then the Yahoo wouldn't have been shown. Could it have been that?

Lollipop. I'm sure Joe is right. The heavy cast iron at high heat gives it that crisp/juicy character. I've heard of a variation called brick chicken but never tried it.

Now I have to buy some chicken (if I can find some)!

Thanks, Joe and Brian. Wouldn't you know it? I rolled almost 4,000 pennies 50 cents at a time and brought the rolls to the bank at the beginning of March. I had had them for years since Canada stopped producing and distributing pennies about 8 years ago, but they're still legal tender. But I'm determined to prepare that chicken somehow. I'll try to think of something that doesn't include hacking away at the masonry to get at a brick.

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