Buffalo Chicken Wings

This is a game day, weekend favorite at our house.  The boys ask me to make this for them when we are having a "guy" get together.  It seems I can never make enough.  They really are very easy, just a little time consuming.

Buffalo Chicken Wings

10 lbs. of Chicken Wings, disjointed
3-4 C. Frank's Redhot Sauce
Blue Cheese or Ranch Salad Dressing

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Line your cookie sheets with tin foil.  Place racks inside pans.  I use two cookie sheets for 10 pounds of wings.  Pack chicken wings very tightly together.  You need to turn them halfway through cooking and they shrink as they cook.






Place cookie sheets inside oven and set the timer for 30 minutes.  Take trays out when the timer goes off.  Using tongue or your fingers, if you have hot hands, turn the wings over so the other side can crisp up.  Place back in the oven and cook for another 30 minutes. 

(Even if your wings are slightly frozen, they will cook completely in the 60 minutes they are in the oven.)

Get a large bowl and pour in 1-2 cups of the Frank's Redhot Sauce.  Place 6-8 wings in the hot sauce and toss with tongue.  Place on a plate to cool just a bit.  Continue coating all chicken with red hot sauce.

Serve with Blue Cheese or Ranch Dressing for dipping sauce.
More Cooking Tips below.

 

There are a few tricks that make these easy for me.  I have learned where to buy chicken wings.  Walmart sells these at a descent price.  If you are not careful, you can spend a lot of money buying and making these wings.  Costco in the past has sold big bags of wings, but they now only sell the wings that already have the hot wing coating on them.  Let me know if you find them again here.  Costco had the best price.

I own cookie sheets that have a cooling rack that fits inside them.  I cover the cookie sheet in tin foil and then place the rack that fits perfectly inside.  I lay out all the chicken wings on the rack.  This allows the grease, which there is plenty of, to drip down into the pan without the chicken sitting in it the entire time it cooks.  I buy my cookie sheets at Gygi's in Salt Lake City.  They also have the racks that fit inside.

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