How To Make The Ultimate Bar-Style Buffalo Wings

By Carl Hanson
 

The ultimate Buffalo wing experience is just 3 steps away.

Bake ’em, fry ’em, sauce ’em. This classic triple-threat restaurant trick creates wings with crispy, crunchy skin and the tenderest, most juicy meat. Here’s how to make the ultimate restaurant-style Buffalo wings happen in your home kitchen.

 

Step 1: Wings in the Oven

Arrange your wings in a single layer on a sheet pan, and bake at 350 degrees F for 25 minutes. Then flip the wings, and bake on the other side for 20 minutes until they’re nice and crisp. No soggy wings!

Pro-Tip: You can bake your wings ahead of time, chill them, and then fry-to-order at game time.
 

Step 2: Wings in the Fryer

Heat the oil to 375 degrees F. Use a candy thermometer to gauge the temperature. Then add the pre-baked wings a few at a time, taking care not to crowd the fryer. You’ll want to give them plenty of wiggle room so they don’t get oily. Fry until extra crispy — just 5 minutes!
 

Step 3: Wings in the Sauce

The classic Buffalo-style wing sauce starts with Frank’s Red Hot sauce.
To sauce 10 to 12 wings, mix 1/2 cup of Frank’s with 1/2 stick of melted butter. Then toss in the wings.

This basic sauce gives you a mild wing. To ratchet up the flames, check out this heat scale graphic, which gives you tips for taking your wings from hot to hotter to basically touching the freaking sun. And if you can’t quite abide the oven-to-fryer method, try these top methods: grilling or slow cooking!