Don’t Preheat Your Oven Before Cooking Chicken Thighs

Preheating the oven is, for the most part, a scam. Unless you’re baking a recipe that includes some sort of leavening agent, you’re wasting the energy being expended by your oven as it works to reach its target temperature. In some cases, gently heating your food along with the oven even offers a few benefits. One of…

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