Ratings - Ease: 4/5, Taste: 4.5/5, Price: $
Scale: Ease out of 5, with 5 being easy and 1 difficult. Taste out of 5, 5 being delicious and 1 being disgusting. Price out of 5 dollar ($) signs, $ being cheap and $$$ being expensive.
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This recipe blew my mind. Every good order of American-style chicken wings I've ever had has been fried till crispy, and more often than not covered in some kind of sauce (usually Buffalo). As a result, hearing about a recipe for baked chicken that comes out just as crispy as fried chicken wings seemed almost too good to be true.
In order to get a proper crust on the wings, the rub employs baking powder, which has some kind of reaction with the skin on the wings and dries them out, then crisps them up. Chef John (the man behind Food Wishes) claims that there's no taste of baking powder on the wings, but that's not entirely true. On the unsauced wings, I tasted a slight baking powder flavor, but not enough to really be bothered by it. As for the "crispy as deep-fried" claim, it's not the unequivocal truth either. Yes, the wings are shockingly crisp for baked, but they weren't exactly as crispy as their deep-fried counterparts. The convenience and health benefits of baking over deep-frying makes this recipe well worth it, though.
My personal recommendations would be to spray the wings with cooking spray at various intervals throughout the cooking process. I did this in order to make sure the baking powder was sufficiently saturated with fat, as I wasn't sure enough fat would render out of the chicken wings to crisp up the baking powder. I'd also recommend saucing half the wings and leaving the other half dry, so that people can choose which one to eat.
Because of how simple and comparatively healthy this dish is, I'd have to absolutely recommend. It's not just easy, it's also very tasty. I'm sure you could tell someone these were regular wings from a restaurant, and they'd believe you.
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