Mr. Wizard
Marinating chicken serves dual purposes: 1) Adds additional moisture compensation so to avoid or reduce risks of drying out the chicken, primarily on a grill. 2) Be the chicken done on a grill or baked/broiled in an oven, marinating also enhances the flavor of the chicken--generally, the longer chicken marinates, the better.
Any method you cook chicken, it's recommended you make enough marinade and RESERVE SOME for basting PRIOR to marinating chicken.
STEVEN F
Marinating meat allows that seasonings to penetrate the meat and flavor the entire piece.
RoSH
To make it eatable.
Anonymous
To marinate chicken.
md
if you wanted to make something with chicken then you marinating it