20 minutes is the sweet spot from what I've seen, but going 30 gets risky since the outer edge starts to freeze and then the silver skin sticks worse. The trick works because cold fat firms up and the membrane separates clean instead of smearing under your blade. Give it a shot on pork tenderloins too, it works the same way.

Man, I gotta disagree with your takeaway there. Rush jobs don't need a backup plan so much as they need you to say no sometimes. A firm deadline plus 12 pieces plus one forge is a setup for exactly what happened, and no neighbor kid was gonna fix that math. The dropped hinge wasn't bad luck either, that's what happens when you're running on no sleep with a fire you can't trust.

Man, @jordan_hill, I gotta push back on this one, because chasing a ghost fault with freeze spray and a scope can eat a whole crew's week and still leave you with nothing to sign off. Sometimes the smarter move is to just swap the whole connector and move on instead of proving which tiny joint failed.