My sister told me I was undercooking chicken wings and she was right

I always did my wings at 375 for 12 minutes because that's what the first recipe I found said. My sister finally tried one last Tuesday and said they were rubbery and the skin wasn't crispy. I bumped it to 400 for 18 minutes with a shake halfway through and the difference was night and day. Now I'm wondering what else I've been cooking wrong - anyone have a go-to temp for frozen mozzarella sticks?

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the_christopher1mo ago

My sister called me out on my burger game last summer and it was the same kind of wake up call. I'd been pressing down on them with a spatula because I thought it helped them cook faster. She told me I was squeezing all the juices out and now I just let them sit and flip once. It's wild how many little habits we pick up from the first thing we read online or the way our parents did it. Makes me wonder what else I've been doing on autopilot for years without even thinking.

dixon.iris29d ago

Just let them sit and flip once" - yeah that one got me too. I spent YEARS flipping my burgers every 30 seconds like I was cooking a damn hockey puck. Turns out I was basically making burger jerky. My brother finally watched me cook one time and just goes "are you trying to speed run this or what?" Now I'm paranoid about every recipe I've ever memorized. I bet I've been doing lasagna wrong my whole life but nobody's had the heart to tell me.

the_miles29d ago

Man that spatula thing hits close to home. I used to do the same thing, thought I was being efficient or something. @the_christopher made me realize my burger game was weak too. Guess we're all just out here learning from our siblings how to not destroy food.