Roast chicken cooking hack gets skin perfectly crispy using £1 ingredient

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cooking hacks, one tip kept popping up.Home cooks gushed about a way to make roast chicken skin extra crispy.It requires very little effort – and you’ll only need a few sprinklings of baking soda to do it.A Redditor wrote: “(Try) baking powder on your chicken skin to get it extra crispy.”The suggestion was upvoted 234 times – and many agreed that it’s an easy way to take your roast dinner to the next level.So here’s how to try the chicken trick when you’re next whipping up Sunday lunch.As baking powder is alkaline, it alters the chicken skin's pH and helps it to break proteins down more easily.It also creates a carbon dioxide reaction that causes layers of the bird’s skin to bubble up.Both these factors make for poultry that's a lot.