Many talks about the Best Chicken Wings: while there are no such things as best or worst wings there is cultural heritage, different cooking techniques, flavor balance.  It's a matter of preference and the market dictates. Raw chicken wings are "almost" the same, offered in different sizes and shapes, with different cooking methods from local Italian restaurants or big chain restaurants.

What Chicken wings style and sauce flavor Hudson County prefer? We compiled our demand and compared with others we realized a thing or two.

Wings Type and cooking techniques - A bit of Jargon

• Bone-in " vs Boneless
• Grilled, Oven Baked or Deep-Fried
• Naked vs Floured

Nearby Chicken Wings Sauce Preference

At Anthony's Pizza, we delivered fresh deep-fried Bone-in "Buffalo" Chicken Wings and Boneless Chicken Wings. For sports fans, whether you looking for wings in Hoboken bars, or with your family in Weehawken and crave for chicken tenders, while placing an online delivery for chicken wings, consider our Sports Pack, you will get a large Cheese pizza, Chicken wings, and soda special deal this deal is exclusive only to our website and store.

At  Anthony's Pizza, we serve fresh, lightly floured, deep-fried Bone-in or Boneless Chicken Wings with a selection of sauces. While crushing numbers from your phone calls, dine-in, take out, or online delivery orders, surprisingly, our customer's, demand is equally split between Bone-in and Boneless wings. With slightly higher demand for Bone-in.

The cultural heritage is that the term Buffalo Wings has been loosely used and implies by default Bone-in, even if the sauce is different from the original Buffalo Sauce. While the Bone-in, flats, or drums did not have an impact on preferences, the sauce, as shown later did have an impact on demand:

Lightly floured Bone-in Wings without sauce. Picture by our team

• Hot Buffalo Sauce 27% of all orders
• BBQ Sauce "Brownish in Color with smoked flavor" 21% (actually in the Carolinas and Texas BBQ Sauce is #1)
• Medium Hot Sauce with 19%
• Mild "Hot" Sauce with 16%
• Lemon-Pepper Garlic with 9% (this is the # 1 sauce in a local pizzeria in San Francisco & another one in Atlanta and we are heading there as well) 
• Thai Chilli Sauce with 8%
• Only 1% prefer no sauce over their chicken wings with request side sauces. 

How did Buffalo Chicken Wings come about?

Before we dive into the history of Buffalo Chicken Wings we noticed that for sure sports fans are adamant about is their wings: floured, deep-fried, Bone-in. A typical messy Buffalo Wings are shown below. No Forks, No Knives, or a La Carte, just snap the flats in half, while the orange colored Buffalo sauce coating your fingers, and somehow you get that mess all over your clothes as well as your friends without being apologetic about it... You got the point!

Old Style Hot Buffalo Wings. Image by jengland

Deep-fried chicken wings have long been a long tradition of southern cooking, long before the term "Buffalo" emerged in the market place. The grilled and deep-fried chicken Breast was the norm. Bone-in wings were the leftover of chicken cuts and were sold at a cheaper price and for nutritional purposes used for soup stocks - not anymore.

So where did the term Buffalo came from? If you are not confused, we were, the name Buffalo has nothing to do with Buffalo the Bison, while there are many versions to the story the National Chicken Counsel authored a historical piece, these versions converge into one fact Teressa Bellissimo, in her Anchor Bar, located in Buffalo, upstate New York, decided one night to Fry Chicken Wings and serve them in a buttery hot-cayenne sauce. It was an instant hit and that's how the tradition and fun started. And that how Buffalo Wing came about.

The inventors of the Buffalo Wings concept are not shy about their cooking process. As shown in the picture below the authentic portions and cooking methods are open to the public, no magic there! However, many claim to duplicate the Bellissimo Buffalo Sauce but according to the Anchor Bar, the family closely guarded their secret recipe.

The original recipe for Buffalo Wings. Courtesy of Anchor Bar

Many of us are wondering so what's the deal with the celery, carrots, and white sauce: either Blue Cheese or Ranch. The Blue Cheese and Celery stick are also attributed to Teressa Bellissimo. One thing for sure is the genius of using Celery and Blue Cheese is in part to tame the heat for capsaicin intolerance.

Buffalo wings have become so popular and restaurants have many cooking techniques and many sauce recipes. We will discuss what we believe provides a good and well-balanced flavor and we too have our unique sauce blends and secrets. While many claim authenticity which has become an overvalued concept our advice is to look for freshness and flavor and avoid pre-cooked wings and frozen types of superstores. When cooked fresh and served hot within 5 minutes chicken wings are juicy and delicious. No matter how good is packaging most of the awesome taste is lost during delivery.

To me, Zack one of the owners, the best sauce for fried chicken wings is: the house made lemon-pepper garlic with a touch of herbal spice on top. However, when enjoying a sports partys nothing beats messy wings with hot sauce or BBQ Sauce.

We are crazy about Lemon-pepper Chicken Wings. Are you?

We like lemon based flavored from Chicken Francaise to lemonade. We do not claim to invent lemon pepper chicken wings sauce neither we claim to follow some kind of authentic recipe. We love the lemonish flavor and make our chicken wings our way.  So if it happens that you are passing nearby and craving for lemon-pepper with garlic chicken wings here is what we eat.  

Image by Anthony Pizza  Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings: What we eat!

How to make Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings at home? 

First, get Lemon-Pepper seasoning from your local store. Make sure you buy the kind with Lemon Zest the citrus flavor from the zest should infuse into the pepper making a distinct and powerful taste. Now in the kitchen

This recipe is for Naked, bone-in wings

• Thoroughly wash and dry 12 party wings
• In a skillet melt about 2 tablespoons of butter
• Quickly Squeeze 3-6 fresh lemons
• Optional: Add 1 table of chopped fresh garlic 
• Add 2 coffee spoons of lemon-pepper seasoning and let simmer
• Deep-fry the 12 wings till golden color - Internal Temperature 165F
• Add the fried wings to the lemon sauce  and stir for about 1 min
• Optional Add 1 coffee spoon of the Lemon-pepper seasoning - it will be a strong flavor 
• Optional kick Add a touch a grated parm cheese
• Optional garnish Add a touch of fresh parsley or Oregano
• Eat hot and juicy

We are crazy about testing new recipes, ingredients, cooking techniques, and sauce blends. On the one hand, we would like to provide you with an even better experience and also we are just flat out curious to experiment. We were not surprised to see a surge in demand when we do things differently. As of the writing of this article, we were able to compile the results of using different BBQ sauce base. We will also share with you the result of our finding when it comes to the Buffalo sauce base, to our surprise, on a blind test, many from Buffalo NY regions liked a different flavor from their original Bellissimo, Cayane Based flavor, and seem to respond more positively with a tweaked slightly smoked southern Buffalo Sauce Flavor, kind of strange!   

BBQ Wing Sauce

We tested many BBQ base sauces, Vinegar Based, Ketchup Based, etc. Many were accepted by our customers but the original Cattlemen's Kansas with Hickory Smoked Flavor emerged as the most appreciated base BBQ Sauce around the Hudson County area.

• Sweet Baby Ray's
• Krafts
• Hunts
• Stubs
• Cattlemen's
• Open pit

Blue Cheese vs Ranch Dip Sauce debate

The original recipe as provided by Anchor Bar clearly states Blue Cheese. However, pizzerias serve both, Ranch and Blue Cheese and popular studies indicate the Americans favor Ranch over Blue Cheese. A fact that has been confirmed by the Harris Direct on behalf of National Chicken Council and confirmed by demand we see in your order which suggests slight preference toward Ranch over Blue Cheese even though we offer both we believe that Bellissimo is spot on her preference of Blue Cheese over Ranch even though Ranch is cheaper.

Study By the National Chicken Council