skin

For those of you who do a lot of cooking, How do you care for your hands? I've found out that I get persistent long-term rash on my hands when I do a bigger cook. Might be due to washing them often, having gloves on almost constantly, etc, or just that my skin doesn't like BBQ. Do you use...

I'm practicing my chicken thighs this weekend in anticipation of my first competition in a few weeks. After scraping the skin, I go to reattach it with some toothpicks. I am having an incredibly hard time getting the toothpicks to pierce the skin. Anyone ever had this problem? (BTW, I know...