Belly Burning Buffalo Wings
by Chef Executive Belly David Lauterbach
I've been all around this great country of ours and I've tried a lot of buffalo wings... sometimes they get it right and hot means HOT. But most of the time, they're served up weak and you end up loading them up with the hot sauce on the table just so you can feel like there's something in your mouth. And guys like us are always looking to outdo one another when it comes to how hot we can handle it... your buddy orders his atomic, so you order yours insanely atomic... I've been there. So with that in mind I've created Belly Burning Buffalo Wings. Honestly, there are quite a few buffalo wing recipes out there, and they're all the same... but these are about the hottest you'll enjoy before you can't feel your lips anymore.
Ingredients:
4 pounds Chicken Wings
1/4 pound Butter
1/4 cup of Red Hot sauce
1/4 cup of Tabasco sauce
1 teaspoon of Dave's Insanity Sauce (or your favorite brand of "insanely" hot sauce)
1 tablespoon of vinegar
cooking oil
Celery & Blue Cheese are optional (just like at Hooters)
Lots of Beer to wash it all down
Prepare the wings by cutting them into two sections and toss the tip... they don't need it anymore and you're not gonna eat it.
Start getting your deepest frying pan (or your fryer, if you have one) warmed up with enough oil to cover one layer of wings completely. You can tell when the oil is hot enough by sticking something like a wooden match or the end of a wooden spoon into the oil. If the oil bubbles around it, it's hot enough to fry. If you put food into oil before it is hot enough, it will just soak into the food and make it excessivly greasy.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the vinegar and the Red Hot, Tabasco & Dave's Insanity Sauce. If you've never tried Dave's now is the time, and for Christ's sake, go easy on the Insanity sauce if it's your first time! Even the teaspoon we're adding can be throttled back on. Why are we adding three different hot sauces? Cause each of the two off the shelf sauces has a slightly different taste and the Dave's adds the serious heat. When the butters all melted and everything is mixed together, turn off the flame but keep the pan warm so the butter doesn't separate.
Fry the wings about 10-12 minutes... don't try to cook them all at once unless you have a huge fryer. Six or seven at a time may be all your pan can handle before the oil bubbles over. When they're done, drain them off and toss them in the hot sauce (you can transfer the sauce into a larger bowl to make this easier).
Serve em up with the celery sticks and blue cheese dressing... they can really help take the edge off. Oh, and don't forget to drink beer with them... it's the most important part of the winged experience.
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