Buffalo hot wing sauce.......which is best?
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I would like to know which brand of store-bought Buffalo wing sauce you all think is "best". I like it hot, seasoned, and flavorful...........not chemical burn hot.
Anyone? I also posed this question on facebook....curious to see which brands are most popular.
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Frank's cut about 2:1 with butter.
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Why not make your own?
1/2 c honey 1/2 c butter 1/2 c Louisiana hot sauce
If you like it hotter, just add some cayenne.
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I made 50 buffalo wings the other day and they turned out awesome. Here is my own recipe (shhhhhhhhh). This will make a lot of wing sauce. 1 Small garlic glove finely chopped. 1/2 cup of franks red hot sauce (they also have an extra hot kind of you want even spicier). 1/3 cup of melted butter (please do not use margarine, it will ruin the sauce) 1/4 cup barbeque sauce (non-smoked) 1 teaspoon celery salt (the secret ingredient ) Take butter, place in bowl and add the finely chopped garlic. Microwave butter until the butter is melted and the garlic is infused. Take out of microwave and add remaining ingredients and stir until fully incorporated. Blue cheese dreesing and celery sticks on the side is also a must. Lots of beer too.
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John, That brand looks a wee bit extreme. I was thinking along the lines of say, Hooter's "three mile island sauce" heat range.
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LT61,
A true Buffalo wing is simply Franks Red Hot Sauce and melted butter mixed together. For me that can be a bit too greasy and I find the consistency of the wing sauce to be thin, still good though.
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I would go with Dr. House's recipe. I find "real" buffalo wing sauce too greasy as well.
Then again my preference these days is tossing the wings in jerk seasoning then baking them for maybe an hour and a quarter. Crispy, tasty, and nose-runningly hot.
The Defcon sauces look interesting. Looks like they have a couple of dealers in the Great White North, so...
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Having lived in Rochester NY for the last 27 years, I have sampled just about all of the wings in the area several times. I also been to the Anchor Bar in Buffalo where Buffalo Wings were invented. I always ask for extra crispy and their "nuclear" sauce. I like really hot stuff (I go through a jar of jalapeno peppers each week). Most of what I get is based on Frank's which, because of my personal taste for hot, is just a smidge more impressive than eye wash. Taste matters too, but for me, the heat's the thing. A new bar opened in Fairport and I tried them, again asking for nuclear. Everything went quiet and they asked if I was sure. Turns out they do a home made a version of sauce based on habanero peppers. That's habaneros are the hottest you'll find in the US. I go there ALOT now - every Tuesday night. I'm telling you this because the recipes mentioned above would be vastly improved with a little less butter and a bit of habanero sauce. I am fortunate here to be able to get something called Melinda's, a habanero hot sauce. It has carrots, onions and a hint of garlic and has quite a nice taste to go with the heat. It is available online. For perspective, the heat quotient is measured in scoville units. A jalapeno has 5,000 scoville units. Habanero variants measure between 200,000 and 300,000 scoville units. There is also the Holy Grail. In 2000, scientists at India's Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) reported a rating of 855,000 units on the Scoville scale,and in 2004 an Indian company obtained a rating of 1,041,427 units for a nasty puppy called the Naga Jolokia — also known as Bhut Jolokia, Ghost Chili or Ghost Pepper. I think I'll stay with the habanero stuff. Anyhow, if you can find a habanero based sauce - add it to your recipe for some punch.
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