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Saturday 14 February 2015

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Baked Crispy Chicken Biography

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College.

During a superbowl party.
At a fraternity.

A totally cliché situation, but that was the first time I ever tried the glorious chicken wing.

I tried one…then I ate another…
Then I ate ten.

I mean, most of the guys there had 20 chicken wings, so I figured it was okay.
Baked Buffalo Chicken Wings

I spent the entire night clutching my stomach and wincing in pain. No one told me chicken wings are deep fried. THEN tossed with hot sauce mixed with butter.

I mean, I’m glad I still have my stomach with me today. No wonder they were so dang good.

Crispy baked hot chicken wings
Despite my first experience, I can’t stay away from chicken wings. BUT, I like to bake mine, and really, I don’t miss the deep fried ones at all. These are crispy as heck and plus, the fryer is a PITA to clean and set up anyway.

You want to know the secret to crispy baked chicken wings?

Parboiling them before they hit the oven.
Seems so wrong, right?

Getting oneself to boil meat is really hard. You hold the little chicken wing above the whirling pool of violently bubbling water, hand shaking, eyes closed because you can hardly look. And when you drop it in, you scream to yourself and are sure that you have just committed a food sin.

But I can say that after doing a test batch with half boiled, half regular, parboiling is the way to go. It helps get rid of some of the excess fat, and the chicken wings are crispier. It’s kind of like when you have to render out the fat on a duck breast in order to get it crispy. Parboiling boils away some of the excess fat so we can get a crisp thin layer.

Crispy crackly edges of the chicken wings.
If you don’t believe me, try it (or read the hundreds of comments below from people who have made these and loved them).

Update: Some have reported issues with the wings sticking to the pan. For this recipe I use these uncoated sheet pans (I find that nonstick pans are garbage, and they don’t work for this. I threw all my nonstick coated sheet pans away because they aren’t better than uncoated):

Every year about this time, I get a bunch of emails asking which of our previously posted oven-fried chicken wing methods is the best. I never know how to respond, since I think they’re all pretty close, but now I finally have a definitive answer…this one!

By the way, the honey-sriracha glaze is quite delicious and incredibly simple, but merely an afterthought here. The real star of the show is the strange, but effective technique of coating the wings with a baking powder-laced spice rub before baking. Through the magic of chemical reactions, the surface of the chicken becomes bone-dry, and eventually crisps up to something very similar to what would come out of a deep fryer.

Instead of the soft, slippery skin associated with most oven baked wings, we get a crispy, blistered surface that really holds onto whatever glaze you decide to toss your wings with. The surprising thing is, once these are cooked you would never know baking powder was involved.

I’m not exactly sure who originally invented this; I heard about it via America's Test Kitchen, but that doesn’t really matter, since the only thing that really matters is who people 10 years from now think invented this. And if this is video somehow goes viral, that could be me. To that end, I really hope you give this unusual, and highly effective method, and honey-sriracha sauce a try soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for 4 portions:
2 1/2 pounds chicken wing sections
1 tbsp kosher salt
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp smoked paprika
2 tbsp baking powder (aluminum free)
- Coat wings, and bake at 425 F., turning every 15-20 minutes, until they are browned and crispy. Total cooking time will be about 1 hour, but that depends on the size and temperature of your wings.

For the Honey Sriracha glaze:
1/3 cup honey
1/3 cup Siracha
1 tbsp seasoned rice vinegar
1/4 tsp sesame oil
sesame seeds to garnish

Baked Crispy Chicken