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# Almost all authorities permit removing the chicken skin in order to eat the chicken. <ref> Sh"t Igrot Moshe 4:74:8 permits removing the chicken skin even if one doesn't plan on eating the chicken right away based on the logic that the skin is considered the same type of food as the chicken itself as both are edible and are of the same type. [So quotes Sh"t Rivevot Efraim 5:267 and Sefer Melachot Shabbat by Rabbi Eider vol 3 pg 160.] Orchot Shabbat 3:93 (pg 166) writes that the Igrot Moshe wrote under the assumption that everyone would eat the chicken skin, however, one that many don't even the skin, one shouldn't remove the skin except right before eating it.  

 

So rules Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat vol 3 pg 304) to permit removing chicken skin because the skin can be considered a peel just like a fruit peel. So rules Sh"t Rivevot Efraim 5:267, Sh"t Bear Moshe 6:47, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:30, and . [It seems Menuchat Ahava (vol 2 7:13) is also lenient. However, Shabbat Kitchen (pg 114; by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen)is stringent for someone who wouldn't eat the skin.

Sh"T Az Nidbaru 7:16(1) writes that an individual who doesn't eat the skin may only take off the skin right before eating. So holds Ayil Meshulash (6:18) in name of Rav Elyashiv, Kera'ei Oneg 2:5 (pg 55). </ref>