Chicken breast recipes are typically quick, easy and healthy. The absolute best way to make chicken? In the air fryer. Here's how to do it right.

Our food editors came up with this list of internal temperatures for you to memorize for perfectly cooked protein every time.

The same could be said for roasting a chicken. Some cooks lean towards a “low and slow” method, but others, like Ina Garten, prefer a higher temperature—425°F to be exact—to get the job done.

You roast the bird in a skillet to preserve the drippings and then, as the chicken rests on a cutting board, use those drippings to sauté whatever green vegetable you like — kale, spinach ...

Avoid cooking chicken below this temperature or attempting to cook it in stages with a gap in between, as this can lead to bacterial survival.

By tweaking variables, like the oven position, cooking time, and cooking temperature, you can set it on the right flight path for all the parts to glide into doneness at the same time.

Chicken breasts should be cooked to 160°F, but if you cook them all the way to that temperature in the air fryer, carryover cooking will take them beyond that temp and cause them to dry out.