From Redbook
This weekend is the Super Bowl. The Big Game. The height of the chicken wing holidays. Even if those who are perhaps a little more prepared have already placed large orders at Bdubs or Wingstop, I decided to enter controversial territory: the chicken wing of the pizza chain. As everyone knows, one of the best additions to a chicken wing dish is a slice of pizza. Go fuck yourself with your celery. Not in this house. So, in search of truth, justice and good taste, I tried four of the main pizza chains and rated them.
For this investigation, I considered several factors. The quality options for chicken, wing sauce, roast and dipping sauce were the heaviest. But I also incorporated details about taste and cost options (based on franchises located within 10 miles of my home in Brooklyn, New York). As a well-known Domino pizza and domino specialist, even I was surprised by my final decision, but we cannot take nepotism into account when it comes to such an important assessment.
Below are my personal notes, which happen to vaguely (but not directly) reflect the feelings of the Esquire team in general. After consecutive days of trying chicken wings from pizza chains in the office, an editor at Esquire exclaimed, “Yesterday I thought I didn’t like wings. Now I need them,” before adding, “I need to go wash my paws.” options below, however, the washed paws can only remain clean for a certain time, because you are practically obliged to return for seconds, if not thirds.
1. Pizza Hut
Cost: Approximately 85 cents per wing
Flavors: 9
As with my college boyfriend, I always suspected Pizza Hut, because it was never able to give me the consistency I was looking for. It was a success and a failure with the pre-WingStreet © chicken wing variety. When they were good, Damn it, they were good. When they were gone, I was trapped looking at a tragedy that oscillated between the drenched and hard carnage. But things have changed. Although a little tougher than I expected, Pizza Hut is by far the leader, with its affectionately titled WingStreet © Wings atop the chain’s chicken wing mountain.
Crispy and deep fried, Pizza Hut knows how to cook a wing. The sauce options are so extensive that they can be overwhelming. There are literally three buffalo. The brand’s classic buffalo does the trick, but for the more adventurous, the sticky fire of sriracha honey is a good match. The net also offers two dry scrubbing options – can I suggest Cajun? – along with a bare choice.
I never sleep with sauce, and both Pizza Hut’s blue cheese and ranch varieties offer a touch of flavor to an already delicious experience. Also, a note: the wing containers are shaped like small black spaceships, which I found equally new and attractive. Much like a restaurant that somehow serves Mexican and Chinese food, I was suspicious of how much a place can do well, but from what I ate, Pizza Hut knows its game.
2. Dominoes
Cost: Approximately 90 cents per wing
Flavors: 4
In a way, I struggle between living in the present and living in the past. My own prejudice wants to put Dominos in the first place because I love Dominos pizza, but I am also remembering a Dominos wing from the past. Previously unpolished, the wings had a certain “Buffalo-style” authenticity that is lost with the company’s new decision to dust them. But this development is not a reason to totally rule out Dominos. The sauce – dare I say I detected an explosion of Frank’s Red Hot? – it is a perfect balance of spices and vinegar, making it a simply delicious adventure. Usually liberal with the technique of sauces, the artisanal mixture of heat and flavor is, in a word, a delight, but the excess can lead to an unfortunate soaked territory.
Although the blue cheese from the chain is more like a slightly peppery white cream, its ranch offers a strong flavor. Reaching 160 calories per cup-let, the calorie intake is worth the taste. It’s like a small bucket of spiced lard, and yes, it’s an endorsement. However, cooking is not the strongest on this list, I must admit. Cooked enough, the lack of potato chips is compensated by the overall size of the wing, which is good.
3. Little Caesars
Cost: Approximately 75 cents per wing
Flavors: 4
The cost, combined with Little Caesars’ constant ability to surprise and surprise, exalts the offer of this chain well above its next best competitor. Although Little Caesar did not respond to the call for a sample of wings this week, I ate his wings last month and they did not disappoint me. The affordable pizza brand offers one of the few “seasoned” dry wings, although the wings are also available in three different sauce varieties. This will allow even the most seasoned avid to apply their own sauce, although buffalo sauce is useful.
The option to dive at the ranch at Little Caesars will, um, well – it will do the job, but it’s oily. I take an independent approach and pair the wings with the top garlic butter mixture from the chain. Again, the sauce is good and the ranch is edible. But arguably, when it comes to the literal and / or flapper drum, there is no better real chicken wing in the mix than Little Caesars.
4. Pope John’s
Cost: Approximately 90 cents per wing
Flavors: 5
When asked about a wing sample, a spokesman for Pope John said the company would be approved at this time. Unfortunately, there is no next time, so my assessment is based on the flavors of Parmesan and buffalo garlic that I experienced in late December. Stocky but miniature, I found Daddy’s wings incredibly cute above all. Unfortunately, the taste did not work in the same way as its competitors. Like Little Caesars, I preferred to dip my wings in the brand’s garlic sauce – a real gem on a menu that can be iffy. The ranch has a slight sweetness that disturbs my palette, so I try to avoid it, if possible.
Papa John’s wing sauce flavors work at about half the speed. Garlic parmesan is known to be oily and not inviting. And I know an inviting and oily texture. The buffalo lacked any noticeable spice and was unable to stick to the outside of the wing. The Pope failed to deliver on his promise to have “better food”, although again, I never deviated a wing.
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