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Chicken breast is the most bland tasting shit on the planet. You literally have to be a Michelin Chef or deep fry it to make it taste good.
Steak doesn't necessarily taste like the bees knees that every claims it does but it has enough natural flat and can absorb way more flavor than dry ass chicken breast.
A michelin chef would like, serve it on wood chips with some potting soil and like a pate and caviar aspic or some shit, and it would be the most revolting thing you've ever tasted but it cost $1000 so you pretend it's amazing to save face.
Literally just marinade it in oil, vinegar, and spices first, then cook it with plenty of garlic. Or just fry it plain with some oil then chop it up and toss it in curry or some other sort of flavorful sauce/stew to soak up that flavor.
Generally the solution to something being bland on its own is to just use spices and sauces and work out how to cook them into it. That's what's so wrong with the like steak sort of approach to cooking where you're just throwing something at a pan and what comes out is kind of mediocre but palatable, because it's trying to turn laziness and not using spices into some intricate art of how to make that not turn out bad when you could instead just use better methods and also spices and get something much better with barely any more work.
But my point is you have to be a fucking wizard to get chicken to absorb as much flavor as a beef. Marinate in a ziploc bag overnight and you’re still not even half way there to making a juicy, flavorful chicken breast.
The simple solution to this is to not eat chicken breast. Dark meat is cheaper, easier to cook, tastier, and better in pretty much every way. The only reason people eat chicken breast is cause it's lean meat so they think it's healthy.
It's also more consistent and easier to handle.
Yeah, agreed, thighs are way better than breasts.