Sous Vide Chicken Wings
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Meat Hacks: Sous Vide Chicken Wings
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Recipe
Sous Vide Chicken Wings
We have been playing around with our new Vacmaster SV1 Sous Vide Immersion Circulator a lot recently, we’ve done steaks, Eggs, Carrots and a few other things but one thing I’ve been wanting to try is Wings. I love chicken wings but always have a hard time getting them to come out as crispy at home as they are in a restaurant so I figured I’d try to cook them sous vide and seeing if that helps.I started with whole wings and cut them up into drumsticks, wingettes (also known as the best type of wing) and the tips. First thing you need to do is separate the tip, next throw the tip out, they are useless as they are all skin and bone. Next slice some of the skin connecting the drumstick to the wingette and then cut down through the joint to separate them.
We are going to be using two dry shakes and two wing sauces today. For the dry shakes we have Bloody Mary Wing Shake and our overall favorite Garlic Romano Wing Shake. I use this garlic Romano on everything, it’s good on so much more than just wings! I lightly seasoned both sides of the wings and then put them in a vac bag. For the Sauces I put the wings in the vac bag first and then added the sauce.
Next, we vacuum packed them with the Vacmaster VP215 to get a nice tight seal so the heat from the water could come into contact with the entire wing. I set our SV1 to 160 degrees and set it up for 4 hours.
Once the four hours are done we are going to take them out of the package, pat them dry with a paper towel and let them come back down to room temperature. Next I will roll them in some flour and fry them in some peanut oil, though you can use canola oil just as easily. Get the oil up to 400° and let them until they are nice and crispy, since we have already sous vide them we don’t need to worry about the internal temp, we are just trying to get them to crisp up.
For the wings we did in sauce we are going to put them in a bowl with more of the sauce and coat them again.
So the wings were cooked perfectly all the way through, they were incredibly tender and had an amazing taste. For whatever reason they werent as crispy as I would have liked. I think there were two reasons for that. First, I don’t think I let them cool and dry enough between sous vide cooking and frying, I was just too excited to get to it. Second, it was cold and windy and I didn’t want to wait outside anymore for the oil to heat up so I put them in at 360°, I should have waited till 400°. Either way the wings were incredible and I will use Sous Vide cooking to make them again!
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Jonathon
You should try pressure cooked + deep fryed wings. Its my go to way to make the most tender, moist, and crispy wings. I do 15 min, then 10 min natural release, then 3-4 min deep fry at 375F. The meat just pulls from the bones. If you take the extra step, you can slide on bone out of the wingettes before frying, which makes its easy to just pull the meat clean off with your lips. -
mikemikemike I’d agree! I’ve had sous vide chicken once and I’ll never do it again. IMO the texture is just wrong. lol
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Chef Canning Dry Cured Sausage Primo Grills Team Blue Sous Vide Power User Cast Ironreplied to mikemikemike on last edited by
mikemikemike do you pressure cook in oil or just the wings? is it pressure cook for 15 minutes, at what PSI? sounds like a quick way to get great wings. Thanks
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I use an Instant pot. 1 cup of water and about a dozen wings on a rack inside the pressure cooker. 15 minute, then turn off and wait 10 min to release the pressure. Let chill for 30 min in the fridge and then deep fry for 3 minutes.
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Chef Canning Dry Cured Sausage Primo Grills Team Blue Sous Vide Power User Cast Ironreplied to mikemikemike on last edited by
mikemikemike I may need to break down and get an instant pot. I have only used a pressure cooker to date, but hear so much about these instant pots. Thanks
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When i bought my Instant pot, 3 months later i bought a spare when they went on sale, thats how much i like and use it. I haven’t even had to use the spare, my original has been working great for 3 years.
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Chef Canning Dry Cured Sausage Primo Grills Team Blue Sous Vide Power User Cast Ironreplied to mikemikemike on last edited by
mikemikemike Is it an instant pot brand or off brand. Need to get one.
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Instant pot brand. I have the 6 qt duo. I wouldn’t waste the extra money for the 8 qt since its only taller and not wider. plus, the more food you stuff in there the longer it takes to get up to pressure. And im pretty sure the 6 qt and 8 qt use the same watt heating element.
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Chef
Trust me, you are going to love it. 90 minute short ribs are amazing i have a really good coca cola and marsala short rib recipe that is amazing over top pressure cooked mashed potatoes . pressure cooked eggs perfectly peel, shredded chicken thighs for tacos, enchiladas…ect only take like 25 minutes and shred prefectly and stay moist and tender. -
Chef Canning Dry Cured Sausage Primo Grills Team Blue Sous Vide Power User Cast Ironreplied to mikemikemike on last edited by
mikemikemike I believe it. I know I swear by my pressure cooker. If it can get to pressure it should do wonders. I’ll be getting mine this weekend.
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This is pretty interesting.
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Dr_Pain I plan on doing this sans and breading, I prefer my wings to be naked if you will.
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bocephus Team Orange Power User Canning Masterbuilt Regular Contributors Veteran New Mexico Sous Vide Gardening
mikemikemike Sounds like I am going to have to look into an instant pot
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HerbcoFood said in Sous Vide Chicken Wings:
Dr_Pain I plan on doing this sans and breading, I prefer my wings to be naked if you will.
I am a big wing aficionado and wings are always naked but my experiment was leg quarters. I wanted a little crunch and it did not work out. I have another experiment I want to try but I may have to give up on fried chicken because I never get the crunch right (and I do have a very good deep fryer)
Now as a side note, I shared in the thread that I used some left over spatchcock chicken wings and fried those bad boys… I am DEFINITELY doing that again.
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Dr_Pain With fried chicken which I really don’t make too often as it is. Ill fry until I am happy with the color of the breading then throw it in the oven on a cooling rack and finish cooking the meat like that. Less frying time, the breading stays a wonderful color and nice and crispy.
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HerbcoFood said in Sous Vide Chicken Wings:
Dr_Pain With fried chicken which I really don’t make too often as it is. Ill fry until I am happy with the color of the breading then throw it in the oven on a cooling rack and finish cooking the meat like that. Less frying time, the breading stays a wonderful color and nice and crispy.
I will have to try that… I’ve tried panko, cornstarch, corn meal and still not happy
