When did Buffalo Wild Wings get this shitty?

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pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022; EVERYONE AGREES I MAKE THE BEST POSTS!

I ordered boneless wings from Buffalo Wild Wings last night and their boneless �wings� were literally the size of mcdonalds chicken nuggets. And their supposedly �blisteringly hot� wild sauce was barely spicier than tobasco. What the hell?

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:41

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# ? Oct 15, 2024 23:53

Aesop Poprock: Oct 21, 2008; Grimey Drawer

I'm not being edgy they've always been overpriced poo poo PH you git

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:45

pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022; EVERYONE AGREES I MAKE THE BEST POSTS!

Aesop Poprock posted:

I'm not being edgy they've always been overpriced poo poo PH you git

how was I supposed to know

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:47

Aesop Poprock: Oct 21, 2008; Grimey Drawer

Well you had to have been to the place and bought them before they have been a company for a while

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:51

pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022; EVERYONE AGREES I MAKE THE BEST POSTS!

this was my first time going there

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:51

Aesop Poprock: Oct 21, 2008; Grimey Drawer

Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets in sauce or seasoning

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:52

pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022; EVERYONE AGREES I MAKE THE BEST POSTS!

Aesop Poprock posted:

Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets in sauce or seasoning

usually boneless wings are much bigger than chicken nuggets

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:52

Aesop Poprock: Oct 21, 2008; Grimey Drawer

This is how human society works you have to learn from other people what you are getting. For all you know you could have been eating clumps of poison sumak and ants because you didn't do research

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:53

pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022; EVERYONE AGREES I MAKE THE BEST POSTS!

Aesop Poprock posted:

This is how human society works you have to learn from other people what you are getting. For all you know you could have been eating clumps of poison sumak and ants because you didn't do research

youre not allowed to sell that at a restaurant

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:54

Aesop Poprock: Oct 21, 2008; Grimey Drawer

Pencilhands I am so sick and tired of your bullcrap

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:55

dervival: Apr 23, 2014

pencilhands posted:

youre not allowed to sell that at a restaurant

that's not what they told me at Aunt Jan's & Mac's Ants & Sumac over on Spain and Tramway

# ? Sep 18, 2024 13:57

large hands: Jan 24, 2006

pencilhands posted:

I ordered boneless wings from Buffalo Wild Wings last night and their boneless “wings” were literally the size of mcdonalds chicken nuggets. And their supposedly “blisteringly hot” wild sauce was barely spicier than tobasco. What the hell?

sounds like the wing equivalent of your threads

# ? Sep 18, 2024 14:00

BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011

I like their burgers.

Voted 5

# ? Sep 18, 2024 14:09

HungryMedusa: Apr 28, 2003

Aesop Poprock posted:

Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets in sauce or seasoning

Boneless wings are chunks of white meat chicken breaded and fried and chicken nuggets are all the gross parts of a chicken blended into a slurry, shaped into a "nugget" and breaded and fried. Yuuuuge difference!

Oh And BWW has sucked for like 20 years now, especially their fries

# ? Sep 18, 2024 14:11

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007

Not a fan of that rear end in a top hat buffalo in the commercials. Like, I would not want to go into the place if I saw the buffalo was already there.

Also, I don't eat wings.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 14:15

Agent Escalus: Oct 5, 2002; "I couldn't stop saying aloud how miscast Jim Carrey was!"

BWW closed all of their locations overnight in Alberta a couple of years ago. No reason given. I tell ya, there's nothing like the feeling of discovering that a local dive bar can do it great with FANTASTIC JUICY WINGS with lots of sauce/seasoning options, especially when so many places both the basics of their wing offerings.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 14:15

Jimlit: Jun 30, 2005

I love eating the most annoying unsatisfying parts of the chicken in mass quantities.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:16

cumpantry: Dec 18, 2020

nice use of your money PH what is that like a grip of benjamins for 8 wings + tip

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:22

cumpantry: Dec 18, 2020

im not proud of it but when i want lovely wings i get a bag of frozen tyson's and thats like $4

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:22

flubber nuts: Oct 5, 2005

pencilhands posted:

how was I supposed to know

you gotta read the reviews. always.

if you like slop from a trough their burgers are edible.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:36

pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022; EVERYONE AGREES I MAKE THE BEST POSTS!

cumpantry posted:

nice use of your money PH what is that like a grip of benjamins for 8 wings + tip

idc I make like 70 an hour

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:37

Jose Oquendo: Jun 20, 2004; Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

who the gently caress orders boneless wings. Just go buy a bag of frozen nuggets and some hot sauce.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:40

Bloopsy: Jun 1, 2006; Thanks Shitman!

I honestly thought that PH�s diet consisted solely of kitty crunchies and chugging bags of their own diarrhea.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:41

Inzombiac: Mar 19, 2007; PARTY ALL NIGHT

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They've always been kinda lovely but got worse when corporate America realized that wings are super popular cheap food.
So then, of course, they lowered quality and raised prices. Wings used to be the cheapest food on the menu; often reserved for crappy pubs and corner store heat lamps.
Last time I tried to order wings from Wing Stop, it was $60 for 30 boneless wings (nuggets) or I could "upgrade" them to traditional wings for $8. Absolute batshit practices going on.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:46

Jose Oquendo: Jun 20, 2004; Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

Inzombiac posted:

They've always been kinda lovely but got worse when corporate America realized that wings are super popular cheap food.
So then, of course, they lowered quality and raised prices. Wings used to be the cheapest food on the menu; often reserved for crappy pubs and corner store heat lamps.
Last time I tried to order wings from Wing Stop, it was $60 for 30 boneless wings (nuggets) or I could "upgrade" them to traditional wings for $8. Absolute batshit practices going on.

The pandemic definitely accelerated this. I went to a wing joint in like...2021, and the wings were 'market price' like what the gently caress am I getting wings or lobster.

Chicken prices have been pretty much the same for a while but wing prices have gone up. Definitely predatory price gouging poo poo. Probably some collusion in there as well.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:49

Inzombiac: Mar 19, 2007; PARTY ALL NIGHT

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There's certainly collusion happening because even at the grocery store whole wings are often 50-100% more expensive than just drumsticks.

I make my own fairly often and ordering delivery is nearly the same price. poo poo is absurd.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 15:59

cumpantry: Dec 18, 2020

Inzombiac posted:

There's certainly collusion happening because even at the grocery store whole wings are often 50-100% more expensive than just drumsticks.

I make my own fairly often and ordering delivery is nearly the same price. poo poo is absurd.

yea dude drumsticks seem to be the only reasonably priced part of the chicken left. for now

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:20

AcidCat: Feb 10, 2005

PH would order boneless wings, that tracks.

I've had BWW like twice, and it was pretty good just really overpriced.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:22

BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011

Inzombiac posted:

They've always been kinda lovely but got worse when corporate America realized that wings are super popular cheap food.
So then, of course, they lowered quality and raised prices. Wings used to be the cheapest food on the menu; often reserved for crappy pubs and corner store heat lamps.
Last time I tried to order wings from Wing Stop, it was $60 for 30 boneless wings (nuggets) or I could "upgrade" them to traditional wings for $8. Absolute batshit practices going on.

Wing Stop sucks poo poo now. Used to be my go-to but the quality dropped off a cliff. I gave em a few chances just in case the first bad experience was a one-off but no, they just suck now.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:27

pencilhands: Aug 20, 2022; EVERYONE AGREES I MAKE THE BEST POSTS!

cumpantry posted:

yea dude drumsticks seem to be the only reasonably priced part of the chicken left. for now

thighs are still pretty reasonable ime

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:43

Inzombiac: Mar 19, 2007; PARTY ALL NIGHT

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pencilhands posted:

thighs are still pretty reasonable ime

Yeah thighs are the go-to now for regular cooking. They taste better than breasts and crisp up real nice without much prep.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:46

Tijuana-A-Go-Go: Aug 2, 2019

people are eating more wings than ever before

what happens to the rest of the chicken?

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:47

Sentient Data: Aug 31, 2011; My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

Hell yeah, i still had the old wings thread bookmarked. Behold! Also check out the sauce recipe that was quoted a few posts below this one in its original thread

The Walrus posted:

Hi GBS recently there were some good wing tips and tricks in another wing related thread, so let's consolidate that into a repository of wing knowledge. Talk about wings here. Where in your town is best to get them? What's your technique for home preparation? Hot sauces, Franks or something else?? Are wings best consumed freshly ripped and raw? That kind of thing.

Anyway, I've been working for a while to develop what I consider to be the best wings in the universe. If you make your wings according to this technique, you will be happy but also increasingly fat, and you may have blood in your poo. Worth it? Yes.

Step 1- Get the Good Kind

Don't gently caress around with cheap rear end hormone grown chicken where the wings are giant. You want good sized wings but not stupid sized. Air chilled is critical to get the proper crisping, water chilled won't do it. Fun fact, something like 99% of water chilled chicken is contaminated with salmonella, wheras it's a much smaller percentage of air-chilled. This is obviously due to water-chilled having all kinds of cross contamination. This is irrelevant in this instance as we'll be cooking the poo poo out of these wings.

look at these beefy bitches (but not too beefy!!!)

not too wet to start is ideal. and not frozen please.

Step 2 - Baking powder and season

I use about .75 of a tablespoon per pound of wings. Doesn't need to be exact. Use this brand if you can find it as I've heard others have additives that can potentially affect taste. Don't use baking soda. The baking powder will have two effects, one simply serving as a dessicant, the other making the chicken skin more alkaline, allowing for a much stronger maillard reaction, creating that browning and blistering you're looking for on a prime wing.

For seasoning you can use whatever, just a bit of salt and pepper, if you want. I like some cajun seasoning, and this stuff I bought at the famous Al's Oasis in South Dakota (can anyone mail me some I'm almost out). Just be careful not to over-salt, particularly if you are going to use salted butter in your buffalo sauce. You can always add more later.

make sure you toss at this point, I hope this would be obvious.

Step 3 - Put on rack and bake for 30 mins at 250.

This is absolutely critical and is left out of the seriouseats wing recipe that the rest of this is basically pretty similar to. They replace it by keeping the wings in the fridge for a night to dry out. Totally unnecessary and even detrimental compared to this method - 30 minutes at 250 has the perfect effect, as you can see the skin starts to dry out and the fat starts along the process towards rendering without cooking the inside of the chicken at all. We've basically given the skin a 30 minute head start on cooking. You also want to be sure you use a rack to allow for correct airflow.

Step 4 - Loosen the chicken. Just move it around a bit so it doesn't stick too badly. Then stick it back in the oven for an hour at 450.

You don't need to worry about letting it preheat, just turn it to 450 and stick it back in for an hour.

Step 5 - feed your cat. she's been getting very upset at all this food for humans and none for her. If she's like this fatass we're looking after, make sure you throw her food for her to get her some cat exercise. she might love it more than you expect!

Step 6 - get going on the buffalo sauce. It doesn't need to be too fancy.

Another poster in the previous GBS wings thread posted a recipe that was well received but I think it was bad and dumb. It's good in theory but needed some work. For example it had you add butter, cook until the butter separated, and then skim off the butter. Don't do this. Your sauce can be as simple or as complicated as you want but add the dairy at the end and just stir it in until it's just melted. personally I like to just put the pot on top of the vented part of the oven in the last 15 mins or so and let it all heat/melt naturally. I also add some homemade BBQ sauce for extra sweeness and tang (this is a better move than adding things like ketchup, Worcestershire, etc separately. Just make some BBQ sauce you can save for later and add a splooge to your wing sauce).

IMO the base should be mostly frank's, with some extra poo poo in there for flavour. I like some garlic powder. frank's extra hot is good too.

wasn't spicy enough, lil more Tabasco and chili flakes

step 7:

toss and eat. fuuuuck look how brown and good those are, look at the crispy bits, look at the blistering on the skin, literally perfection

congratulations you've made the best wings ever. if anyone has a tip for how to improve this wing process I would sincerely like to hear it because I am always on a quest for self improvement and wings at this point make up a large portion of my self by mass.

Sentient Data fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Sep 18, 2024

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:51

Fabulousity: Dec 29, 2008; Number One I order you to take a number two.

I went to a Buffalo Wild Wings once for lunch and there were kids running laps chasing each other from the dining area into the kitchen and back. I guess child daycare is an option at some locations which is cool and friendly to working parents and food borne pathogens alike. The wings were just okay.

That's my Buffalo Wild Wings story thanks for coming.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 16:52

Inzombiac: Mar 19, 2007; PARTY ALL NIGHT

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I air fry my wings but only if I'm making a small batch. It takes way too long to do 50+ for a party that way.

That being said, dry the wings with a paper towel, add some salt and let them come up to room temp, covered (about 30 minutes), pat dry again, spray with grape seed oil or anything with a high smoke point. Only need a bit.
Air fry for about 20 minutes at 400F, flipping once.

Sauce is Frank's, butter and honey. I do a ton of different sauces and rubs but honey buffalo is always the crowd favorite.

Toss in the sauce immediately and MAYBE air fry again for 3 minutes.

# ? Sep 18, 2024 17:01

Dandywalken: Feb 11, 2014

Inzombiac posted:

I air fry my wings but only if I'm making a small batch. It takes way too long to do 50+ for a party that way.

That being said, dry the wings with a paper towel, add some salt and let them come up to room temp, covered (about 30 minutes), pat dry again, spray with grape seed oil or anything with a high smoke point. Only need a bit.
Air fry for about 20 minutes at 400F, flipping once.

Sauce is Frank's, butter and honey. I do a ton of different sauces and rubs but honey buffalo is always the crowd favorite.

Toss in the sauce immediately and MAYBE air fry again for 3 minutes.

Yep, wings air fry superbly

# ? Sep 18, 2024 17:07