What's the deal with chicken wings?

[W.C. Nimoy]

Turns out unless you get wings on sale or something, DIY wings are still kind of expensive. If you include the oil which isn't cheap, and the bottle of hot sauce, they weren't much cheaper than my usual regular price order. Much more expensive than .50 wing night specials. This thread got them in my head & had to go for some yesterday.

The upside was I got all wings, no drumsticks, or vice versa if you prefer, and got them a little more tender & crispier than I usually get from wingstop or bw3 etc.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Wings were great for bars and restaurants when they were cheap but they've become so popular that demand has driven the prices up and caused shortages. The chicken companies are too smart to increase production just for wings. They like to limit the supply of chicken just to keep prices up like the airlines do with seats.

Maybe I'm confused, but how would they even do that?

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

Maybe I'm confused, but how would they even do that?

Genetic engineering has come a long way- IDK about wings, but they've already done it for chicken legs with those "centipede" chickens.

 

[sdifox]

Turns out unless you get wings on sale or something, DIY wings are still kind of expensive. If you include the oil which isn't cheap, and the bottle of hot sauce, they weren't much cheaper than my usual regular price order. Much more expensive than .50 wing night specials. This thread got them in my head & had to go for some yesterday.

The upside was I got all wings, no drumsticks, or vice versa if you prefer, and got them a little more tender & crispier than I usually get from wingstop or bw3 etc.

??? chicken wings from the supermarket is like 3 dollars a lb.

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

From your supermarket? IDK how many pounds this was, couldn't have been much more than a pound I'm guessing, but it was $5.30 something, 16 wings. Couple of dollars worth of oil, hot sauce, adds up.

They were great though. Two rows of all wings with no drumsticks, as hot & crispy as possible was worth it.

I'll shop around a few stores for cheaper wings next time though... $3/lb. Thanks for the data point.

 

[sdifox]

From your supermarket? IDK how many pounds this was, couldn't have been much more than a pound I'm guessing, but it was $5.30 something, 16 wings. Couple of dollars worth of oil, hot sauce, adds up.

They were great though. Two rows of all wings with no drumsticks, as hot & crispy as possible was worth it.

I'll shop around a few stores for cheaper wings next time though... $3/lb. Thanks for the data point.

It really depends on where you are I guess. I am in Canada, food is just more expensive than in US. But I shop at Chinese supermarkets that tend to compete on price.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Wings were great for bars and restaurants when they were cheap but they've be***e so popular that demand has driven the prices up and caused shortages. The chicken ***panies are too smart to increase production just for wings. They like to limit the supply of chicken just to keep prices up like the airlines do with seats.

This might be news to you white people, but other people actually like to eat the other parts of the chicken.

Except the breast. Not sure if you're ***pensating for something, but I really can't see why anyone would willingly eat chicken breast when the rest of the chicken is there.

 

[zinfamous]

A full wing is a decent amount of meat.

Plus, if you get some of those Purdue chickens pumped full of roids, you get crazy mutant amount of meat on those wing cuts. Don't believe me? Go to Church's and order a wing.

But Buffalo Wings are glorious, so consider them a delivery mechanism for awesome.

 

[zinfamous]

From your supermarket? IDK how many pounds this was, couldn't have been much more than a pound I'm guessing, but it was $5.30 something, 16 wings. Couple of dollars worth of oil, hot sauce, adds up.

They were great though. Two rows of all wings with no drumsticks, as hot & crispy as possible was worth it.

I'll shop around a few stores for cheaper wings next time though... $3/lb. Thanks for the data point.

buying them at the market, wholesale, they are reasonable.

For whatever reason, it's the "wing restaurants" like WingStop (this place is horrible, btw) that charge exorbitant prices for simply prepared wings. But it's always been that way, even for the small independent wing restaurants that existed long before the whore that is WingStop.

I suppose this has to do with serving that one item, you have such low margins that you are forced to charge so much for them. ....I also want to find a way to blame the abomination that is the "boneless wing." Somehow, this shitty thing can be blamed for these insane costs, as well as all the evils in the world.

 

[KeithTalent]

You're doing it wrong if you are eating wings as a replacement for a chicken breast or an entire meal (I do find them oddly filling though and they are meatier than the OP thinks). They are a snack food which are, when prepared properly, delicious and go perfectly with beer and sporting events.

KT

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

You're doing it wrong if you are eating wings as a replacement for a chicken breast or an entire meal (I do find them oddly filling though and they are meatier than the OP thinks). They are a snack food which are, when prepared properly, delicious and go perfectly with beer and sporting events.

KT

No, I shouldn't be sitting down full on hungry & filling up on wings as a meal. I don't think anyone's claiming anything about them is healthy.

It IS wrong.

 

[KeithTalent]

No, I shouldn't be sitting down full on hungry & filling up on wings as a meal. I don't think anyone's claiming anything about them is healthy.

It IS wrong.

Wut? :hmm:

KT

 

[Scarpozzi]

Here's my take:
Wings are sauced after they're cooked.
Wings have skin....fry them, they get crispy. Sauce them and you get sauced, crispiness...


The fact that they're quantified in numbers makes them appealing as an appetizer. Most places sell wings....6 piece, 10 piece, 20 piece, etc... Bar food sells and they're not particularly heavy food... They make good snacks for 2 people or a table of people to dig in and eat.

Since chicken is sold frozen, a lot of restaurants can offer wings without worrying about inventory spoilage.

A lot of places serve boneless/skinless wings and these are popular, but they're likely not wings at all....just white meat that's been cut into chunks. Once again, the skin makes a wing crispy. The bones keep the meat moist as the wings cook. I don't go out of my way to order wings, but will enjoy them occasionally. I even fry them at home for my super bowl parties. (my wife hates this)

 

[Imported]

Turns out unless you get wings on sale or something, DIY wings are still kind of expensive. If you include the oil which isn't cheap, and the bottle of hot sauce, they weren't much cheaper than my usual regular price order. Much more expensive than .50 wing night specials. This thread got them in my head & had to go for some yesterday.

The upside was I got all wings, no drumsticks, or vice versa if you prefer, and got them a little more tender & crispier than I usually get from wingstop or bw3 etc.

I need to find a place with .50 cent wing specials around here. I agree in that its almost the same price trying to make them yourself.

 

[sdifox]

I need to find a place with .50 cent wing specials around here. I agree in that its almost the same price trying to make them yourself.

my local supermarket sell them at 50 cent when you buy more than a dozen. Four different flavours to choose from.

I can probably eat 40 of them if there are no sauces on them.

 

[zinfamous]

wait--what do you guys mean by "drumstick" ?

A drumstick refers to the leg. that little piece that resembles a chicken leg is actually part of the wing--a full chicken wing consists of those two parts. Both are individually "wings," or often found uncut as a wing.

Go to a fried chicken joint and order a chicken wing. Hooters sells their wings as full wings. I don't like their wings, but I admire that they sell them that way, at comparable prices to other wing places that only sell them in halves.

 

[sdifox]

wait--what do you guys mean by "drumstick" ?

A drumstick refers to the leg. that little piece that resembles a chicken leg is actually part of the wing--a full chicken wing consists of those two parts. Both are individually "wings," or often found uncut as a wing.

Go to a fried chicken joint and order a chicken wing. Hooters sells their wings as full wings. I don't like their wings, but I admire that they sell them that way, at comparable prices to other wing places that only sell them in halves.

Drumlet is what they were referring to.

 

[Ns1]

Genetic engineering has come a long way- IDK about wings, but they've already done it for chicken legs with those "centipede" chickens.

wat?

 

[sdifox]

Genetic engineering has come a long way- IDK about wings, but they've already done it for chicken legs with those "centipede" chickens.

http://www.snopes.com/lost/kfc.asp

 

[Imported]

my local supermarket sell them at 50 cent when you buy more than a dozen. Four different flavours to choose from.

I can probably eat 40 of them if there are no sauces on them.

Apparently the Smoke Eaters in SoCal has a Tuesday wing thing for .50cent wings.. Gonna have to see if that applies up here too!

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

^good luck!

http://www.snopes.com/lost/kfc.asp

Ha I thought I'd invented the concept of the centipede chicken. I've been injecting it into any chicken conversation where people bring up parts ratios for years. Had no idea it was actually out there as a myth that people believed, requiring a website to debunk.

Drumlet is what they were referring to.

Yeah, I like the packages that are entirely the little double boned wings exclusively, without any drumlets. Maybe that's costing me more.

 

[slag]

You're doing it wrong if you are eating wings as a replacement for a chicken breast or an entire meal (I do find them oddly filling though and they are meatier than the OP thinks). They are a snack food which are, when prepared properly, delicious and go perfectly with beer and sporting events.

KT

I haven't found a single food that goes well with beer. Pretzels need something sweet, pizza needs something sweet and carbonated, wings need water or sweet and carbonation..

Maybe I just don't like beer that much..

 

[Ns1]

I haven't found a single food that goes well with beer. Pretzels need something sweet, pizza needs something sweet and carbonated, wings need water or sweet and carbonation..

Maybe I just don't like beer that much..

you clearly don't like beer, because everything you mentioned goes great with beer.

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

Nothing wrong with a coke & wings!

(squatting in the wings thread lol)

 

[KeithTalent]

you clearly don't like beer, because everything you mentioned goes great with beer.

This. Blech, soda/pop with wings? Nasty.

KT