Chicken wing lollipops!

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SmokinAl

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Have some friends coming over Wed. night & they always want smoked wings. So this time I thought I'd make the chicken wing lollipops. I have never made them before, so I thought I would do a trial run first last night. Started with about a dozen wings. Rinsed them off & cut the ends off first.

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Next I cut the middle bone out at the joint, trying to just cut the tendons and not the bone.

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Next using a sharp paring knife cut all around the top of the bone.

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Next start to scrape the meat pushing it down the bone.

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There are a few little tendons that you will need to cut and continue to push the meat down the bone.

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Keep working the meat down the bone all the way around. See the little tendon, it needs to be cut.

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Next just pull the meat down over the end of the bone turning it inside out.

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Throw them in a bowl with the middle bones & coat them with EVOO, salt, and pepper. Make sure they are coated all over.

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I let them sit in the fridge for a couple of hours, then on the rack ready for the smoker.

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I fired up the Smoke Vault with mesquite chunks. I like mesquite for poultry and I also like the Smoke Vault for poultry. It will get to 325 easily & stay there all day. Even if you open the door, it only takes a minute or two to recover. It's getting nice TBS, so it's time to put the wings on.

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Here they are in the smoker, they will take about 1 1/2 hours to get done.

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Next step is tossing them in a bowl with Frank's hot wing sauce and melted butter. I like to get the regular buffalo wing sauce instead of the hot so that I have a little more control over the heat. Some of our friends like a milder hot wing & this is perfect for them. For the ones who like a lot of heat like Judy & I we just add some Louisiana hot sauce or Tabasco to kick it up a notch.

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Ready to eat with some celery & blue cheese dressing to clean your palate between wings.

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All in all it was a fun way to make wings & if I have the time to spend I probably will do it this way all the time. I will for sure do it like this on Wed. for our friends. Thanks for looking folks & I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I enjoyed making them.
 
Those look way delicious Al!!

  Thanks for the "how to" post!!

  Craig
 
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They look great Al...Just curious, why did you not do the same to the mid-wing sections? The meat pushes down pretty easy then pull out the smaller of the two bones for a similar presentation...JJ
 
Great post Al - Love chicken lollipops and yours look great 
 
They look great Al...Just curious, why did you not do the same to the mid-wing sections? The meat pushes down pretty easy then pull out the smaller of the two bones for a similar presentation...JJ


Well JJ, I guess we'll give that a try next time. It just didn't seem like there was enough meat on the middle bone to do that with, but I'll give it a try. 
 
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Good job Al (I didn't know you had a vault) thoses things are a pain in the a** to make but they are really cool. I have had to make 7 dozen one time for a caterng job. Did I loss my butt on that one.
 
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