Easy recipes for chicken thighs and legs: How to get crispy skin every time.

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It’s getting harder and harder these days to separate fact from fiction. Case in point: Check out this video for “Honey Garlic Chicken Thighs ,” in which bone-in, skin-on thighs are seared fast and hard in avocado oil, then simmered in a wet, steamy, sweet and spicy sauce. Watch with horror as the cook proclaims, “Oh my god, this is perfection. I can already tell you. I mean, it’s crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, as promised.” This, friends, is a dump truck load of bullshit. That chicken skin isn’t crispy at all. How do I know? One, I can see. Her knife slides righ