need boneless wing advice

I am making my first wings on my smoker this afternoon. I'm making bone in for myself because that's what I prefer but my kids like boneless wings. I live in a small area and I'm having a hard time finding unseasoned boneless wings in any of the stores. Are they just chicken nuggets that are coated with sauce or can you make some out of chicken breast that you cut into chunks season smoke and then spin in your favorite sauce and throw back on the smoker? I'm heading to the next town to check out the Walmart grocery section so if anybody has any quick advice for me I would appreciate it. Thanks

I'm sure I know nothing is this is my first attempt at wings lol. But it isn't anything I find in the store that may be breaded going to be pre cooked? I obviously want something raw that I'm going to cook myself.

qman said:

Cut the breasts into chunks yourself and proceed.
Just be careful, the breast meat will cook faster than bone-in wings, and will dry out.

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so they will still turn out good even though they're not breaded and fried?

well I may have rushed in haste to ask this question lol. I told my son I wasn't sure if I could find any boneless wings and he said that's okay dad I'll eat bone in lol. So I've got 2 bags of bone in drummies and wings. I'm going to experiment with two types of homemade mango habanero sauce for myself and the kid and the wife are just going to get some store brand barbecue sauce glazed on theirs. I swear if you put a pinch of cayenne or anything like that they think it's too hot lol I'll try to take pictures and if I come up with a winner I'll give you guys my recipe haha more to come later

Well here goes. As I said my son changed his mind on the boneless/bone in preference so I bought 2 bags of bone in wings. I have always been a massive fan of Buffalo Wild Wings mango habanero sauce. It is the best on the planet in my opinion. So I set out to create my own from some recipes I found on the web. Here is my sauce I am using tonight. I am not sure yet how I will like it till I try it on the finished product and not on my fingertip. I am not sure it is anywhere as hot as the stuff I crave (I have personally sat down 2 times and ate an order of their hottest sauce they got blazin or wild?? can't remember). I couldn't find any habaneros anywhere so I had to improvise. Maybe next time I will substitute real habaneros and leave out the cayenne and Mazzettas. Most also call for corn syrup instead of honey. That's my substitution as I love honey on BBQ. It also tastes a little buttery. Most the recipes I found that claimed to be clones said to use this much butter. I am not sure what the butter is even for or if I like it. I will wait till I have a plate of them in front of me tonight and then judge.

1 mango chopped, peeled and pitted
1 tbsp honey
1/4 cup Franks original sauce
6 tbsp Mazzetta habanero sauce
1/3 cup butter
2 diced jalepenos (seeds and placentas intact)
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup Dole pineapple juice
1/8 tsp cayenne



I used a blender to puree everything to a liquid then I simmered on stove for 10 minutes or so to melt the butter. I am not sure if it will be a hit with myself or not but I will see. If anyone has a better recipe that will duplicate BWW recipe I would appreciate it lol.

Seasoned on the UDs with JB Fatboy's sweet rub

smoke ninja said:

I use to love going to bw3 but now i refuse to pay $1 for a pigeon wing. Even raw wings are outrageous in price. Glad your son seen the light, ive never seen a store bought boneless wing (chicken nugget) i like. Gonna have to try that sauce the mango habenero is stellar.

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I will post soon how it tastes on a wing that has been sitting in smoke. I may have to change a few things but it is too early to tell yet.

Here we go. The ones on the left are with my mango habanero sauce and then ones on the right are with JB's Fat Boy's Sticky Stuff.

Final results.....taste excellent but heat is nowhere near what bww is. I may need to go straight habanero peppers next time.

Nice! I did that already minus the weber kettle. I tossed my wings in Tupperware with lids to coat them. I am doing bone in from here on out. Screw boneless anything lol. I just need to get my habanero sauce perfected. This time I coated wings when fully cooked and crispy then put back in smoke for another 20-25 minutes. This baked on my glaze so they didn't have the wet look and texture of ww. They probably microwave theirs then coat with sauce. I am not sure if next time I should pull wings from smoker and then coat and put on plate or do it again like I did this time.

I don't mind having a saucy coating. That doesn't bother me at all. I just need to get my flavor down. I thought this time when I put them back on the smoker and the sauce baked on it got kinda dry although it still had good flavor.