Bachelor Night - Chicken Wings with the Vortex

[austin87]

My girlfriend spent the day at a bridal shower. Solo mission chicken wings tonight.



Marinated for a few hours with some oil, salt, and a combination of these two hot sauces from PuckerButt (the guy who developed the Carolina Reaper, World Record Hottest Pepper).



One on left for flavor, one on the right for extra heat.





Vortex screamin' hot









Tossed with a little butter and a little more of the Voodoo Prince Death Mamba. Man, these wings were crispy like they were deep fried. And really freakin' hot!

I only wish I had picked up about twice as many

[1buckie]

Voodoo Prince Death Mamba, eh?


No breathing on the forum for you tonite.......wouldn't want the Internet to melt.....

[Sauce]

Wings look good, and hot!

Sauce

[jd]

What kinds of temps are you getting out of the vortex? Thanks,jd

[jcnaz]

Ohhh, I want some of that! [emoji16]

[WNC]

Those wings look great, maybe too hot for my likes but great. Might have to get a vortex just for wings!

[austin87]

@jd I can hold 250-275 with a minion burn down but when I dump 3/4 of a chimney in the middle I have no problem pegging my dome therm at 600 degrees.

@jcnaz http://store.puckerbuttpeppercompany.com/collections/sauces/products/voodoo-prince-death-mamba I think it's the best tasting HOT sauce I've ever had. I'm a pepperhead and have had all of the Dave's Insanity Sauces, all of the sauces and extracts from Da' Bomb, most of the ones from the Mad Dog 357 line, and countless others. It is absolutely delicious. I don't think it's quite as melt your face hot as some of the others, but the taste is unreal.

@WNC I'm all about the vortex right now. I don't remember what I paid for it but I would do it again in a heartbeat. I have the medium and will eventually get the small for my 18"

[jd]

@austin87  that is impressive, thank you,jd

[addicted-to-smoke]

I only wish I had picked up about twice as many

Oh man, when I saw that bag on the counter, and then wings on the grill I knew the same thing. Nice cookup!

[MrHoss]

Crispy like they were deep fried? Man. Done wings 3 times with the vortex and had soft skin each time. I get better results with the coals piled to one side using an 18.5. I used different amounts of coals each time with the vortex to similar results. What is your secret Austin?

[austin87]

@MrHoss I dumped 3/4 chimney of K Comp into the middle of the vortex. My dome therm was pegged at 600 degrees the whole time. I think I cooked them for about 20 minutes per side.

My thought process was that oil is a better conductor of heat than air because it's so much denser, so the air temp would have to be really high to transfer heat to the wings the same way hot oil does.

Now tonight I'm trying again... my girlfriend was jealous when I told her I had wings without her. I'm not going quite as hot today, but will report back when they are done!

[austin87]

@MrHoss I ran at 400-450 on the dome therm and they were not nearly as crispy as last night. I'll definitely try again but it seems like screamin' hot is the way to go.