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We followed the directions precisely. \nThe coating didn't stick. \nThe meat was only 66\u00b0 internally after 20 minutes at 375\u2022\nWe turned it up to 400\u00b0 for another 6 minutes\/side. Then it was 135\u00b0\nThe flavor was bland.\nThe coating was completely lost. \nThis recipe needs lots of tweaking.","reviewRating":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Rating","ratingValue":1,"worstRating":1,"bestRating":5}}]},"video":{"data":{"status":204},"message":"No shortcode found in recipe"},"rms_legacy_id":"30261","romance_copy_dek":"I've made this recipe with chicken instead of beef, and the results were equally good. 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