I had this funny conversation with friends recently. Apparently the chicken wings are now so in demand that they're having trouble selling the rest of the chicken. My dad had actually commented that they're sold for like $4/lb (I don't remember how much I paid for my bag, in part because when I bought it the exact weight wasn't clearly displayed). And to think, I used to throw them in the stock pots...
Okay, tonight I decided to finally give the cheating method a chance. I steamed the chicken for 20 minutes, put it in the fridge for like 15 minutes, and then cooked them in a 450F oven for 25 minutes. The sauce was made of 1 part hot sauce to 1 part butter.
The skin turned out just perfectly, and it was still moist inside, but not slimy. And the sauce, tasted perfect (but burned a bit). I can see now why everyone just does it this way. The sauce was still a little thin though.
I did eventually try to add a little corn starch into the sauce. The problem is, I added too much, and it turned out more like a roux, or a paste.
So, I don't know, there is a part of me that doesn't want to rely on having hot sauce. Like, I'd really like to be able to make it FROM SCRATCH. So, we'll see. I'm going to keep trying to make it without relying on bottles of hot sauce.
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