I love chicken wings.

I took the wings out of their packaging, patted them dry, and spread them over a rack on a baking sheet and left them uncovered in the fridge overnight to help them develop a crispier skin.

I set the Kamado Joe up with one heat deflector so I had direct and indirect halves. I seasoned the wings with just salt and pepper and put them over the heat deflector to cook in indirect heat.

After 20 minutes or so I flipped them, and then gave them another 10 minutes, while I made the sauces.

I did a quick and easy buffalo sauce for me (melted butter and Frank’s Red Hot sauce), smoky barbecue sauce for my wife (started with a base of Sweet Baby Ray’s Original and melted butter, to which I added a splash of Stubbs Hickory Liquid Smoke, a good splash of Henderson’s relish, and some chipotle Tabasco). For my daughter, no sauce thanks, as plain as plain can be.

I took a couple of spoonfuls of each of the sauces and added in a little more oil to each to make a thinner basting sauce.

I checked on the wings and they were coming along well so I moved them to the direct heat half of the grill and basted them. Buffalo on the left, plain (and separated) in the middle, barbecue on the right.

I gave them 10 minutes or so, flipped and basted them again.

Finally I pulled them off the grill and let them rest for 10 minutes while I made a salad and grilled a hotdog for my son.

I tossed the wings in the sauces. Buffalo:

and barbecue:

This photo makes them look less saucy than they actually were, but I don’t like mine dripping with sauce.

Yum, yum. Gone.

  • groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    For my daughter, no sauce thanks, as plain as plain can be.

    Same.

    Those turned out really well! I’ve got a big party coming up next week and am trying to think of what to bring. These look like a good move.

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      1 year ago

      Awesome, do give us an update if you decide to do them. I like wings on the barbecue because they’re pretty forgiving unless you completely forget about them. I just served them with salad and some crisps so it was a very low effort, low stress meal.

      Plus I had leftover buffalo wings for lunch today!

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I’m trying to find something that doesn’t take hours. I’ve done brined chicken thighs and whole chickens.

        I’m guessing you do them at 175C(350F)?

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          1 year ago

          Yup, thereabouts. I think I was hovering closer to 185’C but wings are pretty forgiving.