Buffalo Wing Sauce is my weakness

**bio-smear** · 01-05-2007, 04:12 PM

Seriously, best condiment ever. I make my own now by combining the equally healthy ingredients of melted butter and Frank's Hot Sauce in about a 35/65 ratio. Maybe add a little lemon juice, black pepper, or red wine vinegar. A splash of OJ if I'm feeling artsy. Dip everything in it. Savor the ass burn.

**bagtagley** · 01-05-2007, 04:22 PM

Might I suggest a heaping tablespoon-ish each (for each bottle of Frank's) of brown sugar and tomato paste. I also like to add some habanero pepper sauce or chopped habaneros and crushed red pepper.

I like the OJ idea.

Sriracha takes the title of favorite though. That's some amazingly good shit.

**NorCascader** · 01-05-2007, 04:44 PM

At Big Sky one year I got into a wager with the rest of the kitchen staff and money was flying on whether or not I could drink a pitcher of wing sauce in 1 minute and keep it down for 5 minutes.

Franks, tons of honey and some other stuff (i blacked this out until now)

I drank....I got it down....then my eyes started burning, sweat poured off my face, 2 minutes....got the gags....2:30 it was a "Stand by me" moment.

Haven't touched a wing or the sauce since.
BUT...my ass thanks me for it...now.

**Huckwheat** · 01-05-2007, 04:48 PM

I am with you Bio.....the missus and I cannot resist an almost weekly Bully's. And we always pack a wing sauce home. Have been trying to replicate, and are doing alright (but nothing competes with Bullys).

**bio-smear** · 01-05-2007, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Huckwheat

(but nothing competes with Bullys).

Agreed. Only thing I have had that is better is Santa Barbara Brewing Company's sauce. They really nail the citrus tangyness dead on.

**Raps** · 01-05-2007, 05:30 PM

10-4 on the Franks, i used to put that stuff on everything in college.....pasta, pizza, chicken, pussy.......

**rideit** · 01-05-2007, 05:53 PM

I have started a new condiment habit for brats/Italian sausages...I mix Gry Poupon and Sri-Racha, about 1/2 and 1/2, and keep it in a squeeze bottle. Try it, it is fucking excellent.

**powderchick** · 01-05-2007, 08:44 PM

red hot sounds soooo good. i put it on everything at home. but they dont got it in bolivia. it sucks. we dont have wings either....ahh the things i miss about the states

**pointedem** · 01-05-2007, 08:49 PM

come home powderchick

**powderchick** · 01-05-2007, 08:57 PM

i cant, they kicked me out

**bio-smear** · 01-05-2007, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by powderchick

i cant, they kicked me out

She was hogging all the Frank's.

**powderchick** · 01-05-2007, 09:33 PM

yeah bush just said no more for you, and that was it

**snowsprite** · 01-05-2007, 09:37 PM

My kid doesn't mix it with anything...but he consumes like a bottle of the Frank's stuff at least every 5 weeks. He puts it on everything. I think he has a superhuman digestive system (or so I pray).

Sprite

**72Twenty** · 01-05-2007, 09:40 PM

I ate hot wings about an hour ago.

**Chainsaw_Willie** · 01-05-2007, 09:58 PM

That's it. I'm hungry and I'm going out for some wings. See ya!

**iceman** · 01-05-2007, 10:37 PM

Tabasco. Butter.

Fucking heathens.

**PaSucks** · 01-05-2007, 11:50 PM

Franks is not hot. I used to think it was hot, but I have grown immune. Tobasco is ok and mildly hot, but still nothing special. Tobasco habernaro packs some nice heat and decent flavor. I found some very kick ass salsa at a smoked meat/goumet store a month or so ago called "no pain no gain" or something like that. It was a chipotle based salsa, so kind of a barbecue taste and just right on the heat index.

A coworker brought in some hungarian hot sauce he got from an old girlfriend that he claims is the hottest sauce in the world. The first time he tried it, he actually pissed himself. I had a dab on a piece of pizza crust, and it was very intense but not unbearable. The other guy that tried it was in the bathroom crying for at least 20 minutes.

**jump** · 01-06-2007, 12:02 PM

Yes, wing sauce is certainly one of, if not the best condiments ever. I keep a bottle of Frank's in my office for lunches and have at least three bottles in the fridge at home. Brilliant stuff.

**powderchick** · 01-06-2007, 04:32 PM

i dont really see why we dont have franks here. i looked for it agian today, cant seem to find any. i will have to get someone to send me some

**bio-smear** · 01-06-2007, 05:27 PM

Frank's Red Hot rules for one reason: It is mostly vinegar. I have found this to be true across the board for condiments. Ranch, salsa, salad dressing, whatever. More vinegar = $$$$. Heat is just a nuisance without the flavor and the vinegar zip.

Oh and for heat, El Yucateo habanero dominated me a while back.

**altagirl** · 01-06-2007, 05:34 PM

Franks Red Hot + Butter = hot sauce.

This is also the perfect condiment for crab legs. Just more butter than you'd use for wing sauce. We had king crab for christmas dinner - I made my little hot sauce dip for me and butter for everyone else - but everyone else turned the butter into hot sauce after trying it. Yum.

Though I am also a huge fan of the ground chili stuff - Sambal Oelek is the one currently in the cupboard. Basically the less liquefied version of Sri-Racha - it still has bits of chilies in it. And vinegar. Which I agree is key to the perfect hot sauce flavor.

IE · 01-06-2007, 05:41 PM

So what's the best way of making wings at home? Grill, oven, fryer? I get 5 lbs bags of fully cooked wings from Costco and nuke 'em, but that shit is ghetto...

**rideit** · 01-06-2007, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by powderchick

i dont really see why we dont have franks here. i looked for it agian today, cant seem to find any. i will have to get someone to send me some

Powchick, if you can't make your own with Aji, vinegar, sugar, salt, and butter, I worry about you. Don't miss Franks down there, enjoy all of the various Aji-based salsas, girl!!!

So, personal Q...have you 'gone native' yet?
I bet you get brutally propositioned at the Plaza's (des) Armas...!

**iceman** · 01-06-2007, 06:40 PM

Take this with a grain of salt, since I'm probably the only one here to burn a house down making wings...

(well I didn't quite burn it down but it was a hell of a fire and we had to move for a couple months)

Fill a good-sized pot (like a Dutch oven, pasta pot, like that) about a third full of oil and get it really hot. If you flick some drops of water on it and they crackle, it's hot enough. Don't over crowd the pot. Stir occasionally. A batch of about 15 wings should take about 12 minutes. Remove from oil and put them in a paper grocery bag and shake the shit out of them. Don't put them in the sauce until they're all ready. Keeping them warm in a low oven (like 175) is recommended, a convection oven is better if you have one.

Do NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, decide it will take the oil a while to heat up and go take a shower.

Seriously, that's not a good move.

**seanyob** · 01-06-2007, 10:29 PM

A suggestion. Store your toilet paper in the freezer. If you don't already, you should probably start. It might make for very refreshing mornings during and after thermonuclear hot wing fallout .