Guy Fieri holding a platter of fried chicken and fries - Bruce Glikas/Getty Images Lots of home cooks learn their skills at their parents' or grandparents' elbows, then give that knowledge their own ...

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Closeup overhead view of fried chicken on a plate - Dbvirago/Getty Images Once you've gone to all the effort of making fried chicken at home — breading and frying the poultry in hot oil — you may be ...