Dry Chicken Is a Choice
Five ways to cook it. One rule that saves all of them.
Let’s start with the part nobody wants to hear:
If your chicken breast comes out dry… you cooked it too long.
Chicken breast is lean. There’s barely any fat in there to protect it, so it has a very short window between “perfect” and “I can’t swallow this.” Miss the window and the muscle fibers seize up and squeeze the moisture right out. What a dry tragedy.
The good news? Once you know where that window is, you can hit it every single time… in a pan, in the oven, in a pot, in the air fryer, on the grill. The method may change, but the number does not.
