What is the flavor of Buffalo Wings?

[Inchworm]

Hot sauce and butter?

Or, is it really the chicken skin that does it?

I want to make a dipping sauce/marinade that has the taste so I can experiment on different meats and other foods.

I'm thinking Texas Pete, salted butter and garlic, but am worried that the chicken is the main taste :D

:hi:

[grasswire]

1. bleu cheese and hot sauce

that's the flavor.

[grasswire]

2. here's a recipe for healthy buffalo wings

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/boneless_buffalo_wings.html

[Retrograde]

8. except they're not wings

but chicken breast meat. I like Alton Brown's method, which is time consuming (you first steam the wings to remove most of the fat, then roast them) but very tasty as it lets the umami flavors develop better than plain old deep-frying. IMHO you need that gelatin that comes from the connective tissue near the bones, which chicken "tenders" just don't have.

Frank's hot sauce is the best, although it's hard to find in my region (last time we made them we made a sauce out of Tapatio sauce, Tabasco and butter, tasting until it was about right).

BTW, I just got back from two weeks in Buffalo and had some pretty mediocre wings while I was there.

[Inchworm]

3. Hot sauce seems so .. vague

hehe. That is kinda why I asked here. I have about 7 different kinds in my kitchen and each has its own place.

Most of the recipes I've found simply say "hot sauce"

Der, I forgot about Blue Cheese ;)

:hi:

[Jazzgirl]

4. Hot sauce from the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY.

http://www.anchorbar.com/

I use Suicidal. :evilgrin:

[grasswire]

6. Frank's Red Hot Sauce

...is usually considered the best by chefs. But it's a matter of your own taste. Play with the stuff and see what you like.

Buffalo wings, of course, are served with fresh carrot and celery sticks. That adds a crispy cool dimension.

[hippywife]

9. I second Frank's Red Hot!

It not only adds heat, it adds flavor. I don't get that with Tabasco. :hi:

[Duer 157099]

5. I know what you're asking

Because whenever I have something like chicken strips that are supposedly "buffalo wing style" it's never the same. I think it is the skin on the wings. Also, I don't know if there's garlic. Also, vinegar (unless the hot sauce already has enough)

[Stinky The Clown]

7. The skin.

Try this experiment. Next time you have some, try the wing before adding anything to it. The flavor will be there. To be sure the hot sauces and "secret ingredients" everyone claims is the best adds to the flavor and changes it, but the fundamental flavor is the skin on the wing. And actually, to be perfectly accurate, it is the remains of the rendered fat below the skin on the wing.

[supernova]

10. OT: Buffalo Chicken Wieners

I was at Whole Paycheck today for lunch and they were sampling I kid you not:

Buffalo Chicken flavored hot dogs. The tastes are Hot sauce (something Texas Pete like) and blue cheese bits in the sausages, and then the underlying chicken flavor.

I got some for the weekend. :-)