u/Elegant-Winner-6521

This feels like a dumb unimportant question but this seems like the sub for specific cooking problems.

Whenever I've cooked chicken thighs and then want to slice it up, I run into this problem: it becomes a mess. I end up with uneven chunks of chicken with skin everywhere. I want nice neat looking slices.

I have several super sharp knives, so I think the issue is my technique. Does chicken have a grain? How do you do this without a) ruining the skin layer or b) crushing the thigh.

I went looking on youtube for this exact problem but couldnt find an example.

This feels like a dumb unimportant question but this seems like the sub for specific cooking problems.

Whenever I've cooked chicken thighs and then want to slice it up, I run into this problem: it becomes a mess. I end up with uneven chunks of chicken with skin everywhere. I want nice neat looking slices.

I have several super sharp knives, so I think the issue is my technique. Does chicken have a grain? How do you do this without a) ruining the skin layer or b) crushing the thigh.

I went looking on youtube for this exact problem but couldnt find an example.

Going camping with a large group soon and here's what I'm dealing with -

• most are probably vegan/vegetarian
• one is severely allergic to eggs and is coeliac
• one is intolerant to nightshades
• a couple would prefer meat
• hell no one has said they're lactose but may as well throw that in to be safe
• I'm expecting the typical thing where the site is "fully equipped", meaning a dull knife, some sad plastic tongs, same wafer thin pots and pans and an electric stove and firepit.

I think I can deal with the equipment issue by bringing some of my own, but what to cook? I was considering making some mexican food and precooking some things, that way everyone can choose what they want. I expect I'll be cooking one of the nights at least.

Some other ideas would be very appreciated.

Ingredients are miilk, eggs, butter, flour, salt, sugar, instant yeast.

I worked in the butter gradually and now im at the stage where its basically somewhere between pancake batter and very wet bread dough. Its somewhat cohesive, but very sticky and has no strength.

Recipes are telling me to put it in a stand mixer for 20 minutes - i dont have one of those. Is there a feasible way to hand mix this? If this was sourdough I would just give it a few folds every few half hour. Something tells me that wont exactly work here, maybe ill run out of time before the yeast ferments.

For whatever reason I had so many bills line up at the same time this month. Road tax, a car service, breakdown cover, switching insurance providers, a missed therapy payment. So on top of the usual 600-800 I have in credit to pay off each month I "suddenly" had to find another 2k on top of that.

In a previous life I would have scrambled, stressed and then had to do some creative avoidance and delaying to get together what is essentially a month's paycheck out of nowhere to keep up with this. People get angrier and more impatient, interest adds up, sleepless nights, rinsing your entire savings account to keep up with bills, living on beans on toast etc.

But a few years back I started to figure out how to budget partly from advice from this subreddit, and when I looked at my bank accounts today I realised I already had all that money set aside exactly for these reasons. Small monthly deposits for each thing (e.g. setting aside £30 a month for insurance and £50 a month for car repairs) had accumulated enough to pay for all of it very comfortably without anything being late and crucially without dipping into my emergency fund, holiday fund or anything else.

It's a good feeling!