Wings ........ I beat the Super Bowl rush

[seenred]

The wings and the poppers look terrific, Neighbor! Another reminder that I've been wanting to do some wings myself. Mrs. Red doesn't love 'em the way I do, so I don't make them as often as I might. My Vortex has a layer of dust on it lol! I think it's about time to change that!

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Red

 

[Buckeyedude]

Outstanding ! Those look great! Looking forward to firing up my kettle and start learning it here when I get some free time and decent weather!

 

[Timber II]

Looks great! I picked up some drummies for this weekend for the pellet smoker!

 

[ThermoWorks]

And smoked mine yesterday. With some poppers, or ABT's, or whatever ya wanna call them.

Lined the bottom of my 26 Kettle with foil. Wings have a lot of drippings and it keeps the Kettle clean, but also redirects air up through the middle of the Vortex.

With a full chimney of B&B oak briquettes.

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Gonna use Kosmos Buffalo Wing Dust on them, he recommends smoking them naked then adding the Wing Dust. But I put on a light coat of his SPG.

And I put a big chunk of pecan over the fire.

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The high temp created by the Vortex, burns the pecan at a high enough temp to get a nice thin blue smoke I'm using the ThermoWorks Smoke on this cook. Probe is at grate level. Dome gauge is almost directly over the Vortex.

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Pulled the wings at poppers after 25 minutes. Put the wings in a bowl to mix in the Kosmos Wing Dust. I ended up putting too much dust on as these were very hot, but still had great flavor.


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Now those are some good lookin' wings!

 

[Smokin Okie]

I can't think of a reason why Kenji's method here couldn't be applied, using a smoker instead of an oven. I ran the 26 Kettle at same temp he ran his oven .

Basically, he uses baking powder, corn starch, and salt, the day before and lets them air in the fridge over night.