Grilled chicken should be delicious, moist, tender and full of flavor. But all too often it turns out charred on the outside, raw in the middle or bone-dry and tough as shoe leather.

Here are the things you’ve been doing all wrong when grilling chicken:

Want to make sure you never again waste money on grilled chicken disasters? Follow these simple tips, especially the one about using a good instant-read thermometer.

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