Pizza and Buffalo Wings

Quote: Mosca

I'll admit I was hedging what I wanted to say. They are one of the worst thing you can eat. I love them, but only a few, and only a couple times a year. B&B's are a good substitute.

They are terrible for you. But instead of ordering them say I order a salad. After I leave the restaurant, I get hit by a bus and get killed. What did I gain?

Quote: AZDuffman

They are terrible for you. But instead of ordering them say I order a salad. After I leave the restaurant, I get hit by a bus and get killed. What did I gain?

Azzackly!

B&Bs are boneless and breadless chicken tenders, battered and broiled. They are an acceptable vehicle for all wing sauces. Not wings, mind you, but really freakin' good.

Quote: Wizard

I hope SOOPOO finds this thread. He is from Buffalo, where they get their name, so I expect him to be an authority on Buffalo wings.

p.s. What is the plural of buffalo?

I like my wings with LESS meat and MORE skin. The higher the skin to meat ratio the better! Agree with DRich about the final touches of charring. Agree with BBB about how to prepare. Agree with Mosca about everything.



Disagree with Bob about everything.....

Quote: Mosca

Azzackly!

B&Bs are boneless and breadless chicken tenders, battered and broiled. They are an acceptable vehicle for all wing sauces. Not wings, mind you, but really freakin' good.

B&B? Whoszat?

Quote: SOOPOO

I like my wings with LESS meat and MORE skin. The higher the skin to meat ratio the better! Agree with DRich about the final touches of charring. Agree with BBB about how to prepare. Agree with Mosca about everything.

I used to like Brennan's in Clarence, but Buffalo Brew Pub across the street (but in Amherst) is where we usually hit if I am up there due to location and beer selection. That place is a license to print money.

Wings are all about what's on them,
the wing is just a sauce delivery
vehicle. When somebody raves about
the 'best' wings, they mean the best
sauce on the wings. The wing itself
has nothing to do with anything.

Quote: Evenbob

Wings are all about what's on them,
the wing is just a sauce delivery
vehicle. When somebody raves about
the 'best' wings, they mean the best
sauce on the wings. The wing itself
has nothing to do with anything.

Gotta disagree. The best wings have crispy skin that pops between your teeth when you bite it, slightly succulent meat done all the way to the bone, no breading (perhaps very thin breading).

Too little meat and the skin is stuck to the bone.
Too hot and the skin is done before the meat is cooked.
Too much breading and it's mushy instead of crispy.
Bad spice choices in the breading or rub and it throws off the flavor.
Too long and the meat is dry and stringy.
Microwave and the blood vessels burst and taint the sweetness of the meat with a dark red bitterness. Cooking or reheating, must use fryer, oven, toaster oven.

That's all on the wing, before even considering the sauce.

This is Christopher, my cousin's boyfriend. He was hoping to get a chicken wing challenge going here but it never gained much traction. Here he is eating 50 wings at Hooters.


Direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5V5_VNJJQ

My cousin was not exactly happy with me encouraging this.

Quote: Evenbob

Wings are all about what's on them,
the wing is just a sauce delivery
vehicle. When somebody raves about
the 'best' wings, they mean the best
sauce on the wings. The wing itself
has nothing to do with anything.

I was friends with a professional meat cutter in the 70's, and he taught me some techniques. He was easy to laugh and chuckled that someone discovered how to make more profit from a chicken, by just making more pieces with no more weight. He was a site to see with a knife and whole meat. I still like cutting up chickens when we bring them home.

I'm a dark meat guy, no thanks on the wing tips.

https://freefromharm.org/animalagriculture/chicken-facts-industry-doesnt-want-know/

Quote: petroglyph

I'm a dark meat guy, no thanks on the wing tips.

https://freefromharm.org/animalagriculture/chicken-facts-industry-doesnt-want-know/

My grandpa would grab a terrified
chicken by their legs and chop off
their head on a chopping block.
The dead chicken would run around
with no head for at least 30 seconds.

There is no ungruesome way to kill
a bird in captivity.

Quote: Wizard

My cousin was not exactly happy with me encouraging this.

Is that your cousin at the table.

Why wouldn't your cousin encourage you to take her boyfriend to a restaurant with scantily clad waitresses so that he could stuff himself with pure fat?