3 Ways to Make the Best Chicken Wings of Your Life

🔪MY GEAR:
**As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases**

*Buffalo Wings*
4 pounds (1.8kg grams) of whole chicken wings (about 12 pieces)
Salt
½ gallon (2L) frying oil (light olive, canola, etc)
1 stick (115 grams) of butter
15g (3-4 cloves) garlic, minced
250g (1c) hot sauce (e.g., Frank's)
40g (3Tbsp) Worcestershire sauce
8g (3tsp) cornstarch

Preheat oven to 250°F (120°C).
Cut the whole chicken wings into drumettes and flats
Place on wire rack lined sheet tray and salt both sides
Bake for about 15 minutes
To prepare the buffalo sauce, in a saucepan over medium heat, add butter & minced garlic. Fry for 5 minutes
In a separate bowl, whisk together hot sauce, Worch &cornstarch.
Add hot sauce mix to the melted butter and garlic. Bring to simmer, remove from heat & whisk until smooth
Heat oil in very large a heavy-bottomed pot to 350°F (175°C), making sure that pot is filled no more than halfway full of oil.
Fry the oven dried wings in 2 batches for about 10 minutes each until golden brown & crispy.
Transfer fried wings to a bowl and toss with the buffalo sauce to coat
-
*Korean Fried Chicken Wings*
For the Gochujang Sauce:
100g (1/3c) of gochujang
20g (4-5 cloves) garlic, grated
20g (1Tbsp) ginger, grated
30g (2Tbsp) hot sauce
40g (3Tbsp) sugar
110g (2Tbsp) honey
60g (1/4c) mirin
60g (1/4c) soy sauce
200g (3/4c) water

For the Chicken Wings:
4 pounds (1.8kg grams) of whole chicken wings, cut into wings and drummies
Salt for seasoning
125g (1c) all-purpose flour to coat wings
350g (2c) all-purpose flour for breading
350g (1 3/4c) potato starch (or cornstarch)
15g (1Tbsp) salt
10g (2tsp) baking powder
8g (1 2/3tsp) garlic powder
8g (2 1/4tsp) onion powder
250g (1-2c) Water

Heat oil in a large heavy-bottomed pot to 350°F (175°C)
Prepare the Gochujang Sauce: combine the sauce ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to simmer and cook for 5-10 minutes
Season both sides of the chicken wings with salt.
Place wings in a bowl and add a cup of flour. Toss to coat.
In a separate bowl, create the breading mix: Combine the 350g flour, potato starch, salt, baking pow, garlic pow, and onion pow. Whisk/
Add 1/3 of dry breading mix into a 3rd bowl & add 250g/1-2c water to create a light slurry.
Now mix about ⅓ of the wet slurry with the rest of the dry breading to create a craggy mix for coating.
Dip each chicken wing into the remaining wet slurry, then coat with the craggy mix.
Add wings to the 350F/175C oil in 2-3 batches. Fry for 11-12 minutes until golden brown
Transfer to a bowl & toss in the Gochujang Sauce
-
*Grilled BBQ Wings*
Wings and rub:
4 pounds (1.8kg grams) of whole chicken wings cut into flats and drummies
20g (4tsp) Salt
3g (1tsp) black pepper
3g (1tsp) onion powder
3g (2/3tsp) garlic powder
5g (1 3/4tsp) chili powder

For the Onion BBQ Sauce:
250g (1c) ketchup
25g (1 2/3Tbsp) hot sauce
100g (1/3c) molasses or brown sugar
30g (2 1/4tsp) Worcestershire sauce
25g (1 2/3Tbsp) cider vinegar
25g (3Tbsp) yellow mustard
20g (4-5 cloves) minced garlic
100g (½ med to large) red onion, grated
2g (1 heaping tsp) chili flakes (crushed red pepper)
5g (1 3/4tsp) chili powder

combine the chicken wings with dry rub ingredients.
Refrigerate
Place soaked wood chips in a smoker box over one grill burner on high heat. other burners should remain off.
When grill has preheated to 250(120C) & chips are smoking, place the wings on the unheated side of grill. smoke for 20-25 minutes until wood chips have burnt through.
While the wings are smoking, make sauce. In a saucepan, combine sauce ingredients. Simmer over low for 15 min, stirring constantly.
At grill, refill smoker box, flip the wings over, and continue smoking for another 20-25 min.
Transfer wings to bowl, then heat all grill burners to high.
Grill the smoked wings on high, lid closed, for 5-6 min, flipping halfway through.
Toss in BBQ sauce

0:00 Intro and prepping the chicken
1:15 Buffalo Wings
3:52 Korean Fried Chicken Wings
6:32 Quick break to talk about my favorite way to hydrate (ad)
7:32 Finishing the korean chicken wings
8:22 Bman’s famous BBQ wings
11:54 Let’s Eat This Thing

[force]

Definitely voting for that oven wings recipe in the future! These 3 ways are great to maximize the potential of the humble chicken wing, but sometimes 90% of the way is good enough and a quality recipe from the B-Man would be great!

[jordonbay]

Your content is top notch. As you've said, most recipe content online is utter garbage. I have made way too many mediocre things from recipes online. You know it's not worth it when you forget altogether that you tried something. Your recipes are never forgettable. You go back to them because the technique is superior. I am a firm believer of good technique, and I appreciate your analytical take on cooking. Speaks to the way my brain works as well.

[paulineohea]

Brian you make me smile every time I watch your fantastic videos. Thank you 🇦🇺😊

[marylandlax]

I can’t believe it has never crossed my mind to oven bake then fry the wings, wings were one of the first recipes I became decent at when I started to seriously learn how to cook at 20, almost 10 years later and god knows how many wings I’ve tried and made, I’ve never gotten that perfectly rendered wing with glass like skin, you usually pick one or the other, I commend you Mr. Lagerstrom, you’ve led me down the path of wing enlightenment

[richieschm]

Love these recipes! Breaded korean style wings hold a special place in my heart. When I do wings I season them and leave them uncovered in the fridge overnight. Smoke on a pellet grill at 200F until 165F internal. Chill completely. Then fry at 375F for 5 minutes when ready to serve. The absolute best!

[diamondhandsmcgee]

What a time to be alive! Your recipes are literally the only one's my family uses (If it's not Bri's, we don't want it!). Thank you for bringing true value to our lives! 🙏

[graceg]

I just discovered you today while looking ideas about what to do with ground beef (i found your Shepards pie video). I have had a small binge of your videos & I enjoy this content so much. I enjoy your sense of humor nearly as much as your amazing cooking tips! Hope to be a fan for years to come. Thank you!

[johntoves]

I'm in R&D for a poultry processor and fried chicken is all I do. @5:50, the batter adding into the breading is called "seeding the breader" it helps get the homestyle look. You get better consistency if you rub the batter in like you rub butter into flour for pie crust. Also, if you add your seasonings to your pre-dust, they're better protected from the heat and survive frying better. Brian knows his stuff.

[johnrhodesawakeningthehear]

Hey Bri - I love this video! I'm so excited for the smoked grilled wings! The classic and Korean style also look drool worthy!

Please make the oven wing version before the next Super Bowl! And your favorite Bleu Cheese dip...

[bpdynasty]

These recipes look amazing! Definitely look forward to making these!! Thank you :)

[BbCrl]

Just made these with all 3 sauces. They were delicious! Thanks for sharing!

[qriusjorj]

Really good ideas and techniques. I personally prefer Korean style wings with the super thin glass style crust. 50/50 corn and potato starch and a double fry at 325 and 375. Not a complaint though, those look delicious too!

[CycleInLondon]

Love the oven dry technique, Bri. They all look good. Will be trying the buffalo wings first

[SamisSweetLife]

These look AMAZING and I am totally going to try out your sauce recipes!! But wings are one of the best things I make using just an air fryer! They turn out super crispy, juicy and probably will never deep fry them again because it's just super easy to air fry them. I would love to see your take on wings using an air fryer.

[alredxiii]

Been looking for a recipe that gives those wings the nice crispy exterior. Thanks for making this one, will try out soon!

[MarieAchee]

Last Super Bowl I searched your channel high and low for wings and only came up with buffalo cauliflower :). I will be unstoppable with these in my arsenal come February!

[leahness]

They all look amazing!! I'm drooling, wings are my fav. I learned some new cooking tricks. Thanks Bri.😊❤

[s.m.p.]

Seriously, thank you!!!! Tried the first method last night, UNBELIEVABLE! And easy! You came through yet again Bri. Can't wait to try methods 2 and 3!!!!

[johnc]

Love the smoker option you added to the grilled wings. I always grill my wings and combine with your version of buffalo sauce (plus I add some brown sugar to knock down the heat of the Crystal sauce I use). Learned that from my friends in STL, must be a thing there. Your content is really good.

[wes]

All 3 wings looked phenomenal, and the sauces matched the awesomeness.!!!