Chicken wings on the barbecue

[Music]hey there welcome to fat Daniels thisvideo has been recorded during the kovat19 lockdown so from all of us here atfat Daniels barbecue we wish you allwell and hope that you’re keeping safeand staying at home today’s episodewe’re using something that should berelatively easy to get hold of even inthese difficult times we’re cookingbarbecued chicken wings the first thingto know about barbecuing chicken wingsis that everybody does it differentlythere is no right or wrong way only whatworks for you so I’m going to do it mypreferred way maybe try a couple ofthings along the way and hopefully atthe end of the day we’ll have somethingpretty delicious to tuck into so let’stake a look at our chicken wings as youcan see these have a part that’s missingthat normally sticks out here that’s thewing tip this is generally not an awfullot of use for barbecuing because it’sjust skin and bone it’s fine for usingto make stocks if you’ve got them cutthem up and pop them in a pot and usethem for that but otherwise for barbecuepurposes they’re pretty much uselessthen in the middle there’s what’s knownas the middle wing also known as theflat and the wing it nearest the birdthere’s a section that looks like asmall chicken drumstick which is knownas the drum or drum it those are thethree parts of your chicken but I liketo cook my drum X and my flatsseparately so I’m going to separate thetwo by putting a knife on through thejoint between the two there’s a nicelittle crease in there for your blade tofit intouse a sharp knife and some good forceand just slice through and they’ll comeaway nice and easy now as I said beforeeverybody does their wings differentlysome people these would be ready to goon the barbecue now and there’s nothingwrong with that other people would applya rubothers might pop these into a brine fora while I like the idea of a brine but Ilike to also marinate mine so I use acombination of salt and buttermilk alongwith other aromatics i marinate my wingsbefore barbecuing so I’m gonna get onwith making my marinade this we’re goingto need some buttermilka generous pinch of salt some garlicpuree[Music]finally some Tabasco saucea couple of general shakes in the bottlejust to give it a bit of a kick so whatwe do now is give this a thoroughwhisking into this all properly combined[Music]there you gothat’s our marinade ready to useso with our marinade made it’s time toget cracking and cut up these chickenwings[Music]and there we are all done so there’snothing left to do now except pop theminto our marinade give them a thoroughtoss to make sure they’re well andevenly covered[Music]and that’s just about perfect I’m nowgoing to go and cover these with clingfilm and pop them in the fridge andleave them overnight if you want them abit sooner than thatyou can always leave them at roomtemperature for about four hours or so[Music]right well here we are then these wingshave been left to steep overnight in thebuttermilk marinade and all I’ve doneother than that is wipe off the excessmarinade and pile them up on a platenext thing to do is to apply our rubsI’m gonna start with my Dixie dustall-purpose seasoning give this aliberal and generous coating this iswhere the magicwith the Dixie just applied I’m gonnagive it another seasoning in this casemy fat Daniels barbecue rub[Music]and the two rubbers applied we’re goingto flip the wieners over and do exactlythe same on the other side[Music]so with these wings all nicely rubbedit’s time to get them on the barbecue asyou can see I’m using a charcoalbarbecue today and I’m cooking theseusing the indirect method if you take aclose look at the coals you’ll see thatthey’re all stacked to one side I’mplacing the flats farthest away from thecoals as these are thinner and take lesstime to cook the drum let’s are goingnearest to the coals or if the heat ishigher and they should all cook itaround about the same sort of time thesecoals aren’t particularly fierce at thecooking temperature won’t be that highso I’m going to allow five to tenminutes before I go and turn these wingsopenafter further ten minutes cooking thesewings are about done but in order tocrisp the skin up I’m going to move themdirectly over the coals just to finishthem off using my trusty temperatureprobe I’m going to check for an internaltemperature of about 80 degreesthere is a saying that says above 75 tostay alive but where chicken isconcerned I like things just to be atthat little bit better coat so low tomid-80s is good for me and here we arethe wings straight off the grill andthey look good and now we’re left withthe next dilemma drawing all sourcedthis can be quite a big question butjust at the point of this video I’mgoing to go both ways there are plentyof proprietary wing sources out thereI’ve got a couple here Frank’s redhotwing sauce which is a good stalwart andprobably the best known around the worldand one for my friends at wing jam whichI’m going to try for the first timetoday and start by putting some asidedry so we can use them as a control thenI’m the sauce some with each the twosauces I’ve got sourcing is quite simpleyou just need a bowl which one about atablespoon to two tablespoons if you sawadd your wings to give them good tossthat the wings are thoroughly coated theheat in the wing will set the sourceonto the wing and then you’re ready togo just turn them out on the plane[Music]right well that gives me two sets ofwings sourced and a dry set to compareto so let’s clear the decks and tastethese wings well I think it’s time togive these a try we’ll start with themjust straight really[Music]absolutely nothing wrong with that toolnow move on to the Frank’s hot sauce[Music]II[Music]good Finnerty vinegary kick from thesourcehmm that also is a good wing finally[Music]we’ll try one has been made with sourcefrom our friends at wing jam[Music]Heythere’s a real fruity heat to thatthat’s a good wing well as you can seethere’s a lot of wings and I think I’vegot things to doso I’ll see you again soon take care[Music]well thanks for joining us and in thesedifficult times from everyone here atfat Daniels barbecue stay home stay safeand stay healthy good food good timesfat Daniels[Music]