HOT WINGS

 

The Chinese restaurant near me does pretty good wings, but their sauces are a bit odd; they’re basically whatever sauces they already use for their other dishes:

1. Plain
2. Hawaiian Sauce (Sweet and Sour)
3. Orange Sauce (Sweet and Hot)
4. Garlic Sauce (Hot)
5. BBQ Sauce (Hickory)
6. Louisiana Sauce (Hot)
7. Mongolian Sauce (Sweet)
8. General Sauce (Sweet and Hot)
9. Indian Sauce (Curry Hot)

This was their Hawaiian sauce. As you can tell, it’s just sauce they’d use for Sweet and Sour. It’s rather boring. 

I’ve tried their Garlic Sauce, Louisiana Sauce, and Indian Sauce. They’re fine, but they’re nothing spectacular. 

I figured I’d just order their wings plain or with sauce on the side, use the sauce for something else, and toss the wings in my own hot sauce mixture. 

Four of the hot sauces in my collection are from restaurants:

• Nando’s XX Hot (from Nando’s Peri-Peri: one of my very rare chain restaurant exceptions that I actually like; not really that hot)
• One Finger (from Nola Pub House: a bit thin and not really that hot, but quite tasty)
• Jups Hot Sauce (from Ina Mae Package Goods: it’s a bit thin and vinegary)
• Diablo (from Fat Rice: their current iteration, Noodlebird, doesn’t sell it, but they sell other hot sauces)

So, here are my evil creations. 

1.  The first time I decided to mix my own hot sauce mixture: It turned out really well.

2.  This was my second attempt: Four of the hot sauces have Ghost Pepper, and one even has Reaper! I forgot to take a picture of the final mixture or the wings. It was HOT, but in a good way!

3.  I hadn’t used these hot sauces in a while (recommended by a friend, but none really my favorite), so why not? The final result was quite good!

4.  The experimentation continues (my XX Peri-Peri is finished now; too bad they don’t sell their XXX, which is quite good and which I always add when I’m at Nando’s): It had a really good kick!

4.  I decided to do something different and make a chunkier sauce with extra seasoning: four hot sauces, crushed chipotle, Venom (sea salt and Trinidad Scorpion Pepper), and an extra hot salsa (7 pot Brain Strain Pepper,, Trinidad Scorpion, Carolina Reaper, Ghost Pepper). Good flavor combination, not as crazy hot as I thought it would be, but the heat did linger a bit. Another successful experiment!

5.  Late night munchies means wings: the Smoky Ghost is done, the Diablo is almost gone, and the Ghost Peri-Peri is going fast!