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How To: Correctly Eat A Chicken Wing

11/12/2009 | By Diana Adams
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How To: Correctly Eat A Chicken Wing

So, I just learned, I’ve been eating chicken wings wrong my whole life. I’m just glad I found this out now. I love chicken wings and since I don’t eat much sugar, chicken wings are my vice. I eat them almost daily. I love them extra hot, extra crispy and covered in blue cheese dressing.

Sure, eating the drumstick part is easy, but what about the flat part? I usually just eat around that part of the wing and toss it aside, knowing there is a lot more meat on the bone. But how do you get to that meat? This fabulous video below tweeted this week by my friend Reg @zaibatsu shows exactly how to do it correctly and effortlessly.

To me, having this information is huge. It’s like an epiphany, and I can’t wait to order my wings this afternoon to try this out. I’m a bit annoyed that I’ve been getting my fingers messier than necessary and leaving so much meat on the bones, but trust me, I’ll enough wings over my lifetime to make it all worthwhile.

Oh, and if you are ever in Atlanta, there is a little hole in the wall that only the locals know about called The Wing Ranch. It’s on Johnson Ferry, right at the split with Ashford Dunwoody. They have the best wings in the city and tons of different flavors to choose from. Those wings taste like a little slice of heaven. Yeah, you’ll be thanking me later.

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Author: Diana Adams

By day, Diana is the CEO/owner of Adams Consulting Group, Inc, a technology services and business solutions consultancy firm serving the specific needs of its clients in advertising and public relations. By night, she lives and breathes by writing. After publishing a small cookbook last year, she is now working on her new masterpiece, scheduled for publishing next year. “I could write all night long and not get tired of it. I think that is when you know you’ve tapped into a true passion. Whatever that thing may be, if you could do it all day or night long, lose track of time, ‘wake up’ ten hours later, and still thirst for more, that is a passion, and I feel like I’ve found that in my writing.” Diana also spends many hours each week assisting the homeless men and women in Atlanta. You can find her on Twitter at @adamsconsulting.


33 Comments

@chauda

November 13th, 2009

LMAO! this is great! I mean I thought I was cool for only eating with two fingers but this is so much better! lol

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Hugh Collier

November 13th, 2009

I’ll admit that when I first saw the title of this post I thought it was a rather ridiculous notion that there was a “proper” way to eat a chicken wing. However, this is HUGE. I like wings but I usually avoid them because of their awkwardness to eat. Not any more! I’m gonna go buy some later today and try this out.

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Mic-B

November 13th, 2009

PASTRAMI CHICKEN WINGS?! oh my lord i want…. nom nom nom

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Matthew F

November 13th, 2009

http://digg.com/food_drink/How_To_Correctly_Eat_A_Chicken_Wing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+digg%2Fpopular+%28Popular+Stories%29

Found your story on Digg today.
I drive past Wing Ranch every day and have never been – I’ve only heard of one other person ever mention them!
My #1 for wings has been Taco Mac for some time now… theirs are nice and extra crispy how I like em!

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Diana Adams

November 13th, 2009

Matthew,

Oh my gosh, I totally agree with you! Taco Mac also has fantastic wings, not quite as good as The Wing Ranch to me, but definitely a close second!

Diana

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Dr.G

November 13th, 2009

Meat causes cancer through HGH IGF-1
http://tinyurl.com/drgreger1

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meateater

November 13th, 2009

Yummy, give me more meat to eat, I love cancer.

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Lanier

November 13th, 2009

I’m going to have to disagree with you. The flaw in your system is that you’re using two hands. You need one clean hand when you’re taking down some serious buffalo wings. The way I do it I learned from some black dude while working at Zaxby’s. Grab the smaller end of the chicken wing (notice this only takes two fingers) and simply chomp down on the whole thing. It might take a couple tries to get used to it, but you can basically cleanly remove almost all the chicken in one swipe (even the part in between the bones). And yes, it drives me insane as well when people leave so much mean on those wings because of their technique.

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Conan, Destroyer of Wings and other assorted chicken parts

November 13th, 2009

I agree with Lanier. I only ever have wings on cheap wing night at the pub, and that means dedicating a clean hand to holding my beer.

However, should I ever find myself in a position where I have wings to eat but no beer (crazy, but possible), your method for bone extraction looks awesome and I will surely put it to good use.

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Conan, Master of Cancerous Meats

November 13th, 2009

Oh, and Dr.G needs to grow a pair and put those incisors to good use. I did, and now I’m the Master of Cancerous Meats and whatnot.

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Dave

November 13th, 2009

This video, along with this article:
http://www.wholefitness.com/looking-breasts.html
has inspired me to go to Hooters.

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Joe

November 13th, 2009

ive always just eaten everything, bones and all

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Elizabeth

November 13th, 2009

Well, I’ll be darned. That’s great! Thanks!

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Jeff

November 13th, 2009

Taco Mac is still around? Last time I was in Atlanta, the great demolition of Buckhead has just taken place. TM was gone, $3 Cafe was gone, – the place was a ghost town.
Glad to hear about the Mac. Great wings.

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tickyul

November 13th, 2009

Well, excuse me Pissflavio! I am sorry, I have been eating wings for years the WRONG way. Who died and made you king???????? Pissflavio????????

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Yourmom

November 15th, 2009

Are you serious that this idiot didn’t know how to eat a chicken wing? I felt 50 IQ points leaving my brain after I read the first two sentences. This is the stupid crap that makes proves this country is filled with idiots.

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Diana Adams

November 15th, 2009

The comments on this page make me laugh so hard. The good, the bad and the ugly. I love it!! Thank you all.

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Lisa1LinenLady

November 16th, 2009

I love wings and will search for the best ones. Thanks for this eye-opening info. I even like gnawing on the burnt ends. Extra crispy is how I like them.

Oh BTW, Cancer -If it’s not one thing it’s another. I’m not giving up wings unless I become a vegetarian.

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Emma

November 20th, 2009

I am vegetarian….But thanks for your article….

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Elaine

November 20th, 2009

Diana – I love the article and video (I DID learn something today!), but the comments are the best part! People are fighting over this! Great work . . . .

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Sam

November 20th, 2009

I tried this the other day and it works GREAT. The thing I did was to use my teeth to take out the cartilage and bone, leaving my other hand clean for beer drinking, nose scratching and ass grabbing.

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Lanier

November 20th, 2009

I tried this technique on some sh!tty wings last night and ended up somehow making the entire wing explode all over me and the guy sitting next to me as well as catapulting the remains over behind the bar…guess I’ll have to stick to my one handed method…at least for crappy wings.

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Todd Wallace

November 20th, 2009

Um, was reading another article on the site about blogging when I saw this in the sidebar. I love peripheral vision. On no…what’s this over there about Unlocking Your Front Door Geek-Style? Gotta go…

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Tim

November 27th, 2009

no one should ever eat a chicken wing like this.

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frank patane

November 30th, 2009

I don’t eat the skin. What is the best way to remove it?

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Lanier Reply:

Don’t eat wings

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Kimba Green

December 4th, 2009

WOW!!! That is all I can say! Going to go get wings now!

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patam

December 24th, 2009

Hehehe nice, now I know…

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@hannibal666

January 22nd, 2010

Filed under useful information. Good job, Dianna.

@hannibal666

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Wolfie Rankin

February 4th, 2010

My dog would show you how to eat a chicken wing.

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chef Tony

February 8th, 2010

I disagree (sorta)…I just take the big end, make that the handle, put the rest in my pie hole, clamp down gently with teeth, and pull the bones out. All the meat stays in your mouth, all the gristle, skin and meat, done.

Now if that’s too much at once, use above method, GREAT video!

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