Let's Talk BBQ
Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Kamado Style Cookers => Topic started by: bamabob on February 18, 2018, 07:38:43 PM
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Had a bunch of wings, thought I'd cook them a few different ways to see which came out best. All were salted and on a rack in the fridge for 18 hours to draw out and evaporate the moisture, worked well. Sprinkled with some Oakridge rubs.
I fired up the keg and added a little apple chunks for smoke. Cooked most of them on the keg. Started out at 200* with a slow temp rise over 3 hours to 350*.
Just on:
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while those were cooking I fixed some in the air fryer for lunch. Here they are finished:
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After 3 hours, the wings on the keg were rendered well and looked pretty good.
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I then took half of them, removed the diffuser and grilled direct
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For supper heated some of the kegged diffused wings and kegged diffused and then direct wings in the air fryer.
The diffused and air fried on the left and the diffused, grilled and air fried on the right.
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And the winner is:
1st place. The kegged diffused and then air fried. Great flavor of a wood fired cook with a great crunch.
2nd place The kegged diffused and then grilled. Really close call here between 1 and 2.
3rd place This was a surprise. The kegged diffused. Usually experience the rubber skin but these were really good. But I think with the 18 hours of dry time in the fridge combined with 3 hours low and slow on the keg these were really good. A little crunch but not as much as the first two.
4th place The air fried only version. These were really good, but were missing the smoke and wood fired flavor. A toss up really between 3rd and 4th. The air fried had the best crunch but the kegged diffused had the best flavor.
5th place. The kegged diffused, grilled and air fried. These were a little dry from being cooked so much.
supper tonight
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Lovely lookin wings! :thumbup:
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I'd say you really like wings! Great looking bunch of wings!
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I'm going to need my own plate with milk plz.
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I'm going to need my own plate with milk plz.
I'll need mine with a cold beer (or two). ;) ;)
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A fun experiment, you can’t lose with the way you cooked those wings. For me, when you have a touch of smoke , it’s always 1st place. Thanks for the info.
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Bob, you know I love these kind of cooks :) That looks like a fun experiment to me! The best part is getting to eat the end results! I wouldn't have a problem polishing off 10-15 of those bad boys ;)
What I've done a few times is cook them on the pellet pooper and then drop them in the deep fryer for about a minute or two, they come out amazing! Now, are they healthy that way? Nope. That air fryer is a much better choice but on occasion that hot oil bath is allowable, lol.
Now I want wings!
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Next time you do a wing test give me a call. All look great
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Great looking wings. Now add a cold brew and all it right and just in the wing world. Great cook.
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Just to be fair, I'll take a drumette & a flat of each kind, please ! ! !
BD
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I'm going to need my own plate with milk plz.
I'll need mine with a cold beer (or two). ;) ;)
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