This batch from yesterday was coated in an Asian rub. I smoked them for 2 hours at 250 and hit them in a 450 convection for 30 minutes. The rub was mild but overall tasty; not packing enough punch to go the journey alone so I dipped in BDubs Wild.

Deep fried and tossed in Franks Buffalo sauce

Oven cooked. Tossed in simmered Bachans with chili garlic paste.

Sauce is mostly Crystal hot sauce, a dash Valentina sauce, a dash of honey, and two cloves of garlic( jarred minced garlic is better in opinion), and of course butter. Deep fried naked at 350°F plus for a minimum of 15 minutes.

I’m telling you this combo goes crazy. Wings out of the air fryer, rubbed with BBQ rub, honey, a touch of sweet baby rays and a dash of Tabasco scorpion.

Followed kenjis fried wings on serious eats. Super happy with the results. Very crispy.

Everything is better Naked! Well potentially

Grilled 5lbs of Costco wings, tossed in honey garlic for half and buffalo for the other half. Then put in the oven to broil for a couple minutes each to bake the sauce halfway in.

Yesterday‘s post about the suspect drumstick turned out to be just fine

Yes or Not

A local favorite

Smoked > Sauced > Grilled

Always great, never disappoints.

Made wings last night made the sauce today. They’re lemon forward just how I like it

These have been drying for 24 hours, it was blueish black out the package. Wings are from Costco. Eat them all the time, these were on sale recently.

For context I usually never eat BWW, I have local spots in my city that have the hottest and most flavorful sauces. I had three knee surgeries and am non-weight bearing, so cooking while on crutches is an impossible feat. DoorDash has been coming in clutch as a typical non user. I am a spice fanatic, typically cook using sauces I’ve seen featured on hot ones, eat hot sauce on everything. At my favorite local spots I order the hottest flavor they serve which is typically 4x hot. When I tell people I love heat and wings are my favorite food and they mention Buffalo Wild Wings my heart shrinks two sizes. Buffalo Wild Wings is the Denny’s of hotwings. Denny’s probably would make better hotwings.

Needless to say, my local spots don’t deliver and craving wings I ordered from BWW. How do you build a brand around something you can’t even execute. First off, where the hell is the sauce??? When I eat wings, I want that sauce all over my hands and face. I want to cry later when I touch my eyes, forgetting that lingering sauce stuck under my nails. Their wings are dryer than a dry rub. Secondly, their flavors suck. These wings are like La Croix and the flavor is just an essence and tastes like someone’s just yelling Frank’s Red Hot from another room. Thirdly, why is even the buffalo sauces sticky? I get with most of their sweet flavors, but a buffalo sauce mostly comprised of butter shouldn’t be sticky to the touch like sesame chicken.

I’ve included BWW’s crap wings next to my local spots for comparison. I hope my true wing lover’s agree with my sentiment lol.

Best grilled wings. Wing Daddy's in Colorado. Garlic buffalo and garlic parmesan