Buffalo chicken, often prepared as wings, tenders, or even nuggets, are pretty much one of the best options American cuisine has to offer. While they're often used in conjunction with 'merican sporting events like football, they also have plenty of use in sandwiches or served as is.
If you haven't tried buffalo chicken before, you should make them as soon as possible. For a simple way to make them, first cook your chicken part of choice. Make sure the chicken either has skin attached, or its fried. Melt a half of a cup of butter or so, and then add that and about a third a cup of your favorite cayenne hot sauce into a bowl you can use for mixing. Some people at this point add salt or other seasonings, but it's not really needed. Mix the chicken and sauce together, and voila - spicy buffalo chicken wings. Depending on which kind of hot sauce and how much you use is what makes them anywhere from mild spiciness to hot enough to force tears from your eyes.
If you make them too hot, you'd likely enjoy dousing them in Bleu cheese dressing or ranch dressing.
So, what are your opinions on buffalo chicken? How hot do you like them? Do you have any spices you would recommend when making them? Are you a wings person or a tenders person?
I'd give it a go, but it's got to do something special to get past Nando's.
sounds like nandos yeah
ive never been to nandos? it seems overrated and i think one direction sang for them once or something???????
also what is a good cayenne pepper sauce? we dont got much sense of them in the uk so i don't really know much bout it, would i be Forcibly Irradiated for using schriacha????
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Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on February 03, 2015, 15:41
ive never been to nandos? it seems overrated and i think one direction sang for them once or something???????
Nah that was Ed Sheeran, and yeah Nando's is very overrated. Better off buying your own piri piri sauce and cooking all the other stuff yourself =]
I looked up Nandos and it seems like it's a similar thing. I actually got curious (it looks good) and it looks like while it is still hot wings, they're prepared with a bit more complexity. Also served in a different style. Now I really wanna try some, but the closest ones to me are in Maryland which is still like 4 hours away.
I'm not sure what's available in the UK, but my family loves to use Texas Pete's. I have friends that use Frank's Red Hot too. And my brother and I have tried it with Sriracha, and it was pretty good in my opinion, but it's not as good as the hot sauce. I blame the difference in consistentency.
Buffalo chicken (especially wings) is the nuts. One day I'll make it to the US and get the proper gear rather than the junk we get here. Though there's a pub in town that does buffalo wings and dipping them into the blue cheese dip and then the pepper sauce is like omg so amazing. I need to have them soon! Nandos isn't even in the same league.
Frank's Red Hot sauce is pretty good but I find Cholula to be a good choice too.
I really like food.
off for a cheeky nandos now 8)
I went to nandos before i'd heard of it and was so confused as to why all you could get was chicken and some form of potatoes??? i left and went somewhere else instead lol but i'd prob like it i guess
we should set up a uk/us trade liason cos goddamn if i dont want all ur varieties of chilli peppers you got over there like mexican food in the uk is a couple packets and a couple tins of horrid sauce and thats it. sigh.
we could give you british cuisine like "sprouts boiled in cabbage water for 10 hours"
really gotta get me some proper US supplies like claire says and try it out
cos altho it was a Weird Appropriation like i very much approved of the pulled pork i tried in the slowcooker once (can you believe how hard it is to get bone-in pork shoulder over here holy christ) and i think i really need to expand my American Food abilities
for real though we're thinking of growing our own chillis cos the one good mexican style product u could get here (pickled red jalapeños) have stopped bein made so with any luck we could try makin our own hot sauce????? id call it beth's blistered anus sauce and no-one would buy it
edit: the one American place i have tried was in Spain, strangley enough. it was this place called Fosters Hollywood and u could get a burger medium-rare ohhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHH my god it was so good
they legit dont do medium rare beef here cos of the mad cow
edit: this post doesn't make a lot of sense but im ill for the first time this winter so
Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on February 03, 2015, 15:55
they legit dont do medium rare beef here cos of the mad cow
OH MAN THE STRUGGLE. I like my steak to be still mooing on the plate but when you ask for rare steak they're like "lol ok medium? " and I'm like "No don't even waste the electricity heating the thing up I want it RAW" and they're still like "Ok one medium steak coming up!!"
Luckily I'm not a fussy eater so I still devour it but it's the principle!
You can definitely make your own hot sauce, yeah! Peppers are also really easy to grow, preserve well via freezing, and you can make salsa with them. Another cool pepper dish if you're gonna grow them is to cut them open, cook them, and then put cream cheese or cheese in them. You can fry them too and that's hella good too.
And you poor people live your lives without cooking your burgers rare? You guys do rare steaks, right? Is there such a dip in quality between burger and steak there?
Quote from: Kpyna on February 03, 2015, 16:02
You can definitely make your own hot sauce, yeah! Peppers are also really easy to grow, preserve well via freezing, and you can make salsa with them. Another cool pepper dish if you're gonna grow them is to cut them open, cook them, and then put cream cheese or cheese in them. You can fry them too and that's hella good too.
is this that Poppers thing people keep talking about
(no not THOSE sorts of poppers)
QuoteAnd you poor people live your lives without cooking your burgers rare? You guys do rare steaks, right? Is there such a dip in quality between burger and steak there?
basically in the uk there was this thing in the 90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy#The_ban_on_British_beef) where we had this big scare about a neurodegenaritive disease you might be able to catch from beef
and it led to what people literally called "The Beef War" in the media but basically the result of it was that every british person went off beef and no-one cooked their burgers anything outside of "charred lump of charcoal" cos they were all worried they'd get the BSE
as you can tell we british people aint got anything better to do than be paranoid and overreactive abotu everything in the agricultural sector, see also "foot and mouth disease"
edit: its ironic cos we're meant to have the better milk standards than the US yet we cant manage to keep beef in order at all
win some lose some i guess
Medium rare beef >>>>>>>>>>>>
man I just want to eat crap loads of American foods and stuff now
Quote from: Kpyna on February 03, 2015, 16:02
And you poor people live your lives without cooking your burgers rare? You guys do rare steaks, right? Is there such a dip in quality between burger and steak there?
Well, the menus say rare, but... D: Like Beth said, most people are too scared of meat that hasn't been incinerated. But I mean for Christ's sake, I'm Scottish and our most famous food is sheeps innards boiled in it's own stomach (also delicious btw), so I don't get why people are so squeamish about a little bit of pink meat. Mmmmmm rare steak.
Quote from: Clairefable on February 03, 2015, 16:35
Well, the menus say rare, but... D: Like Beth said, most people are too scared of meat that hasn't been incinerated. But I mean for Christ's sake, I'm Scottish and our most famous food is sheeps innards boiled in it's own stomach (also delicious btw), so I don't get why people are so squeamish about a little bit of pink meat. Mmmmmm rare steak.
would you believe i never got to try haggis yet either????? i hear its a real treat
like all herby and like a really nice sausagemeat type thing and stuff???? hell yeh give me a nice big hunk o meatiness in me mouf
I'm having haggis tonight for dinner lol
if you don't think about what it is when you're eating it it's actually really nice. Just have a pile of mashed turnip and some mashed potatoes on the side with gravy and you have an a+ dinner.
^ jealous!! (actually I can take or leave the turnip but haggis + mashed potatos + whiskey sauce = yum)
Haggis is kind of difficult to describe. It's kind of sausage meaty (except with a finer texture? Like it seems to break up a lot more easily) and it's herby and a teeny bit spicy and just generally tastes great. If the whole "eeew sheeps stomach tho" thing bothers you (which is shouldn't because I'm guessing everyone here has eaten sausages and do you know what they make sausage casing with??) the tinned stuff is just the meat and is easier to prepare.
There is pretty much nothing that I will not eat at least once. I am a vacuum for food.
Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on February 03, 2015, 16:08
is this that Poppers thing people keep talking about
Yes! You can buy them premade here but they're 100% better and less like lava inside if you just make them yourself.
Quoteand it led to what people literally called "The Beef War" in the media but basically the result of it was that every british person went off beef and no-one cooked their burgers anything outside of "charred lump of charcoal" cos they were all worried they'd get the BSE
I actually think we had some Mad Cow over here because people were feeding already dead cows to live cows or something. I actually think we usually have a small outbreak every few years but I guess we just dig on it anyways. We probably just avoid forcing them to cannibalize and that helps. I've had steak before that was actually cold on the inside -- but usually you only do that at places where you're confident in the quality of beef because you can get sick from other stuff I guess.
I can't imagine having to put up with medium steak. I usually do medium rare and anything else you just can't really taste the quality.
And Haggis sounds odd, definitely not like anything I've had before. I've never had an animals "insides" (sparing like, sausage), and it's pretty funny to me that if you offered some of that stuff to an American, they'd rather starve than eat animal organs. It's seen as junk meat here. Like, if my brother and I were annoying with what we wanted for dinner then my mom would just threaten to cook liver and onions and that would usually shut us up.
Quote from: Kpyna on February 03, 2015, 17:53
And Haggis sounds odd, definitely not like anything I've had before. I've never had an animals "insides" (sparing like, sausage), and it's pretty funny to me that if you offered some of that stuff to an American, they'd rather starve than eat animal organs. It's seen as junk meat here.
I think that was originally the point of it, to use up the bits of the animal that would otherwise go to waste. It just looks like really dark mincemeat when it's cooked. I don't even though if it's still made like that these days. I think the stomach has been replaced with some kind of casing similar to sausages so I dunno what the actual meat is made from. Probably nothing worse what what's in your average hot dog lol
Quote from: Kerou on February 03, 2015, 15:45
Nah that was Ed Sheeran, and yeah Nando's is very overrated. Better off buying your own piri piri sauce and cooking all the other stuff yourself =]
Nando's is my jam here, except it's only in like the east coast (there's like 4 in maryland). I liked nandos when I was in the UK though. You guys aren't simple enough.
Anyway, Buffalo Wild Wings at the hottest is great
Quote from: Lord Raven on February 03, 2015, 18:00
Anyway, Buffalo Wild Wings at the hottest is great
I have to try Buffalo Wild Wings so bad! I don't have enough friends or family that tolerate sports to be able to go and try them though.
There's this place a few towns over that does buffalo chicken with a little bit of ghost pepper and dang it is HOT, and I think my taste buds can't perceive a lot of spicy stuff anymore. Definitely not for the uninitiated, but still delicious.
weeps this topic is beautiful buffalos wings are probably my favorite food ever and buffalo wild wings is wONDERFUL even though i havent been in years :,U But yeah I'll never toss up an opportunity to have something with buffalo chicken in it, even like salads or in fajitas or something.
why is it called buffalo chicken
a buffalo is not a chicken
buffaloes do not have wings
i've never had buffalo chicken or nandos or haggis =//
Me and my friend have buffalo wings occasionally at Spoons but the sauce is nasty...
Their hot sauce is essentially vinegar with orange food dye.
Quote from: Danatales on February 03, 2015, 18:52
weeps this topic is beautiful buffalos wings are probably my favorite food ever and buffalo wild wings is wONDERFUL even though i havent been in years :,U But yeah I'll never toss up an opportunity to have something with buffalo chicken in it, even like salads or in fajitas or something.
Have you had buffalo chicken mac and cheese before? My friends and I, whenever we make it we always sprinkle some bleu cheese on top of it and lord have mercy ;-;
Quote from: Shrub on February 03, 2015, 21:05
why is it called buffalo chicken
a buffalo is not a chicken
buffaloes do not have wings
Not sure if you're kidding, but the name actually derives from Buffalo, New York, which is where they were invented.
UPDATE: A friend just coincidentally told me she's having her birthday celebration at Buffalo Wild Wings Thursday. So I do get to try it!
^Oh, if they offer you something called buffalo chips, they're basically potatoes sliced into little circles and deep fried. They're better than the fries there.
Buffalo wings are one of my favorite foods, as well as my favorite american food. They're really tricky for me to eat because i'm a bit impatient and don't like eating around the bone, but I love the spiciness of the wings.
Ugh this thread is making me so hungry!! I don't even particularly like macaroni and cheese but BUFFALO mac and cheese sounds like something I need to eat.
Quote from: ShinyBlaziken2000 on February 03, 2015, 21:37
^Oh, if they offer you something called buffalo chips, they're basically potatoes sliced into little circles and deep fried. They're better than the fries there.
....They. Sound. Incredible. Omg I am so jealous of you people getting to have all these amazing things! If I lived in the US I'd be like one of those people who weigh like 50 stone and have to be airlifted out of bed.
It probably says a lot about me that when I was in Manchester last year I got totally excited over getting to try Taco Bell since we don't have it here.
i have to say, buffalo wings from buffalo are a delicacy. i've had them from the anchor bar (the bar where the sauce was invented), and i have to say it tastes simply incredible. if any of you are in the area, it's seriously worth it. if i remember correctly, you can get them with a milder sauce but it's not nearly as good.
unfortunately, i live 6 hours away from buffalo, despite living in mainland ny. i guess that's the price you pay for living in westchester. i've been to wild wings a few times in white plains and it sucks in comparison. they're basically spicy chicken nuggets. if they stopped calling it buffalo then maybe it would be a bit better, but they taste like crispier and better versions of the frozen stuff. although, there is a local sports bar by me that has some incredible boneless "wings" (it's really just a nugget).
i've never tried haggis, though. should i home-make it, or go to some scottish restaurant? (is there such a thing? i've been to irish restaurants but they definitely don't have haggis)
Quote from: Clairefable on February 03, 2015, 21:40
It probably says a lot about me that when I was in Manchester last year I got totally excited over getting to try Taco Bell since we don't have it here.
when i go to england for school i will visit you and cook you all of the disgustingly amazing american food i know how to make
do you have old bay seasoning over in new england, liz
yes muhed oh my god we have bay seasoning here
theres none on the west coast, and most places around the east coast dont have it... it's mostly a maryland thing but a good bit of the east coast uses it too
Quote from: Kpyna on February 03, 2015, 21:21
Have you had buffalo chicken mac and cheese before? My friends and I, whenever we make it we always sprinkle some bleu cheese on top of it and lord have mercy ;-;
oH MY GOD... no ive never had buffalo mac n cheese but that sounds amazing hhNHNH ESPECIALLY WITH BLEU CHEESE....
ive eaten buffalo wing flavored pretzels, meanwhile, which are also mind-boggingly good. cries over buffalo. cries forever.
Did you know that Ruffles has/had a buffalo wing flavored chip? It was actually really good.
I was considering grabbing some buffalo wings for lunch tomorrow. This thread is making me really want to do that now.
QuoteWell, the menus say rare, but... D: Like Beth said, most people are too scared of meat that hasn't been incinerated.
But unlike chicken or pork, the bacteria that makes you ill on beef is only found on the outside as opposed to all the way through. this is why you can have blue steak, rare, medium and so on. Same for lamb. As long as the OUTSIDE is cooked, you can NOT get ill. But that's the Daily Mail* for you.
*Daily Mail: FOX News in print form.
And the cooking tip provided by Gordon Ramsay
When I'm in Boston for my honeymoon I'm going to try and visit some of the places I've seen on Man Vs Food. British food is cack and I want to die a happy man: With JD Honey BBQ sauce lining my arteries.
Milsap - I frequent Boston and do not miss Fire and Ice Grille, it's an awesome dining experience where you select the raw ingredients you want in a buffet kind of environment and choose sauces and stuff and then there's a team of grill guys at a circle grill. Unlimited dinner for $12, run of the mill buffets can't beat that. And the food actually tastes good, unlike buffet food. And you can get your burgers there cooked rare. That place has allowed me to put buffalo on so many different kinds of food. Buffalo clams and calamari are better than you may think.
And do a tour of Harpoon brewery. And if you wanna go to any music performances, check out the House of Blues. It's a tiny venue but there's no order so if you're willing to be that guy you can push yourself right against the stage if you buy like $20 floor tickets.
I know a million more places there if you ever get stuck :p final piece of advice, if you retain nothing else I told you, don't go into the Fens park by fenway after dark. It actually becomes scary and I got threatened by a thug that I'm 90% sure was trying to dump a body.
QuoteI know a million more places there if you ever get stuck :p final piece of advice, if you retain nothing else I told you, don't go into the Fens park by fenway after dark. It actually becomes scary and I got threatened by a thug that I'm 90% sure was trying to dump a body.
Drugs, guns, dead bodies... It'd be just like Handsworth! (Suburb of Birmingham... A mini Detroit)
whats the general BBQ method of choice in the US????? i want to know if hank hill is right or not
Quote from: palladium on February 03, 2015, 21:59
i've never tried haggis, though. should i home-make it, or go to some scottish restaurant? (is there such a thing? i've been to irish restaurants but they definitely don't have haggis)
lol Scottish restaurant please someone tell me there is such a place in the world xD Wash your haggis down with some Irn Bru and follow it up with a deep fried Mars bar!
I actually love the taste of offal. Haggis is one of my favourites - I prefer it to pork and beef cuts. Black puddings as well, mmmmmm. Love the taste of kidneys and liver but can't stand the texture, usually use them as flavouring then feed them to someone else lol
Anyway, Buffalo wings... don't recall ever trying them although I love the look of those super spicy ones you see on TV! People in the UK I guess can't handle too much spice (?) because I can never find food hot enough for my tastes.
^ I can honestly say I've eaten some artery clogging crap (deep fried pizza is amazing btw) but I'm pretty sure the whole deep fried Mars bar thing is an urban myth. I have never seen it for sale anywhere. But if I did I'd totally eat one just to say that I had.
I went to the pub with the wings earlier but they didn't have any so I threw a tantrum and had wine for dinner instead.
I went to buffalo wild wings and I have a pretty high tolerance so I got the blazin' wings, and man, they should warn that's not for human consumption. I was crying. For like 30 minutes. It was brutal. Next time I'll just go for the hot buffalo haha
A chippy like 20 minutes away from me sells deep fried mars bars. I've never tried one though! The same chippy also does battered burgers. Everything is better covered in batter tbh.
Had some battered chips the other night for the first time in a while. Man they are guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurd!
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Quote from: Inferna on February 06, 2015, 07:10
A chippy like 20 minutes away from me sells deep fried mars bars. I've never tried one though! The same chippy also does battered burgers. Everything is better covered in batter tbh.
Oh aye battered burgers are standard chippy fare. The battered haggis is a particular favourite of mine... especially with gravy. But everything from the chippy should be drowned in gravy imo.
Where I grew up it was the norm to put curry sauce on chips.
I go back and ask if they've got battered ones and suddenly I'm the one that's mental.
Quote from: LOOK AROUND YOG. on February 05, 2015, 18:12
whats the general BBQ method of choice in the US?????
Well, it's all with what you like. My family prefers propane because it's faster to get going. If you want a more smokey taste (which is actually good in most barbecue), charcoal is the way to go.
And this is turning into a general food chat thread.
^ Charcoal tastes better on chicken. Especially if you've got lemon and herb stuff or something similar on it.
And obviously steak too.
Quote from: Milsap on February 06, 2015, 11:15
Where I grew up it was the norm to put curry sauce on chips.
I go back and ask if they've got battered ones and suddenly I'm the one that's mental.
I've never understood the obsession with curry sauce with chips; it's a mix that's just not right =S
Gravy only goes on a roast too
Quote from: Kerou on February 06, 2015, 20:11
Gravy only goes on a roast too
Is this a dig at poutine? Poutine is incredible.
Gravy on a roast is delicious, but for me, it's mostly for potatoes prepared in various ways, and biscuits (I don't mean cookies). Country gravy is mainly for breakfast foods, while your brown, pork and turkey gravies are for meats and mashed potatoes.
Quote from: Kpyna on February 06, 2015, 20:17
Is this a dig at poutine? Poutine is incredible.
See I love chips and gravy (possible contender for favourite food ever) and I can deal with chips and cheese but chips cheese and gravy is a combination I've just never thought should have any business being anywhere near each other, haha. It's the kind of thing I can imagine eating drunk and then chucking up again a few hours later. Though I friend of mine recently came back from New York and raved about poutine so yeh I'd definitely give it a go!
I actually prefer prefer roasts/meatloaf/etc. with ketchup. But not eggs. I could never understand ketchup and eggs.
Quote from: Kpyna on February 06, 2015, 20:17
Is this a dig at poutine? Poutine is incredible.
never had proper poutine, but even then I'd rather not have gravy on my cheesy chips. Gravy only goes on meat for me (and veg on a roast), otherwise it just feels somewhat wasted / not bringing anything extra to the table
Chips and curry sauce is an amazing combination. Lovely.
I've never had curry sauce. Is that a crime?
Quote from: ShinyBlaziken2000 on February 07, 2015, 16:04
I've never had curry sauce. Is that a crime?
some people will probably lynch you for it but i aint too fussed about it myself exactly, salt n vinegar = the one true chips seasoning
enough salt so its like you cried into it but just enough vinegar to give it a bit of a wetness so u ain't chokin down a packet of Smash w/ sand
also best battered _______ is a battered sausage
delicious AND a message to the patriachy!!!! two birds in one stone
did anyone elses's chippy used to sell straight up bits of batter? ours did but we also got OAPs portions of fish n chips instead of kids portions cos we were fat and greedy as the dickens
when you got bored of fish you could switch it up with a pukka pie (chicken and mushroom supremacy)
As for chips/fries, I like some sea salt sprinkled on top and a good spicy tomato ketchup on the side.
Also I've never had curry anything, mainly because only i'd eat it because it's spicy and no one else in my family can stand spicy stuff.
Quotedid anyone elses's chippy used to sell straight up bits of batter? ours did but we also got OAPs portions of fish n chips instead of kids portions cos we were fat and greedy as the dickens
when you got bored of fish you could switch it up with a pukka pie (chicken and mushroom supremacy)
Scraps? Hell yeah.
Best bit of the chippy because it's FREE :D