Spicy Smoked Chicken Wings

Chicken wings and tailgating!! Is there any better combination?? Now I love to smoke food, the flavor that it adds is just amazing!! These Spicy Smoked Chicken Wingsare perfect to make for any game day!!  This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #AD #Tailgreatness #CollectiveBias (I have included links to some great products that I have bought on my own to make my journey easier. You can buy them too through my online sales links.)

Have you been loving football this year? I love that there is sports year round that calls for amazing food!! I mean, you can’t go wrong with getting together for a sporting event and good times with food. Like many other things in life, good food seems to have it’s own consequences.  As I have gotten older, it has gotten worse. You guessed it — heartburn. If you have ever suffered from heartburn, you know how it can put a damper on your plans and even change your eating habits. Now you may remember when I shared the Bacon Wrapped Smokies that I love Nexium ® 24HR because it allows me to plan ahead a couple days and still eat this heartburn-inducing food during the football season!! **Use as directed. *May take 1-4 days for full effect.*

Spicy Smoked Chicken Wings Ingredients:

• Wingettes (I love these since they have the little drumsticks in it as well.)
• Hot sauce of your choice
• Seasoning for chicken (I used a tequila lime BBQ rub, but you can use whichever you want.)

Kinder’s Organic Tequila Lime Rub 10.2 OzFrank’s Red Hot Sauce Glass Bottle, Original Cayenne, 50-OunceCabela’s Open Season Spice Blends Tequila Lime Seasoning – 12 Ounce

Spicy Smoked Chicken Wings Directions:

Rub your chicken down with spice and allow to set while you do the rest of prep work for the smoker.

Pull your water bin, chip holder, and racks out of your smoker and cap off the exhaust pipe.

Fire the smoker up to start raising the temperature.

Fill the water dish with water and the chip holder with smoker chips of your choice.  I used apple disks to give a sweet flavor to the meat.

Now I really like to use pucks in my smoker! Below is the pucks I use and also my smoker as well. I also recommend having a good meat thermometer and the oven gloves. It is so much easier to pull out meat from the smoker with the gloves.

Smoke Hollow 30162EW 30-Inch Electric Smoker with Window, BlackEatSmart Precision Pro Digital Thermometer – Instant Read w/ Splashproof Design and Backlit Screen (Black)Bradley Smoker BTAP48 Apple Bisquettes 48 packBBQ Gloves – Oven Gloves – Perfect Grill Gloves – Extreme Heat Resistant

Once your smoker gets hot, put in the chips so they can start to smoke. You may do this differently, but I like to get the chips hot and starting to smoke, then I put in the water dish.

While waiting for a good smoke, spray down the racks to your smoker.

Spread your chicken wings on your rack.

Once you have a good smoke going, slide your wings in, close it up tight, and open up the smoke stack! I keep my smoker between 200 and 250 degrees.

Keep an eye on your smoker. I set an alarm to check it every half hour. I did replace my smoking disks at about the 1.5 hour mark. You know your smoker and each will vary in how they smoke and what you want to be done.

Remove once wings are at 160 degrees or more. Mine took about 2.5 hours.

Even though they are amazing without sauce, we are a sauce family!! Place your wings in a large bowl. We did one for hot sauce and one with BBQ sauce for the kids.

Toss the wings in the sauce.

Once you have your wings coated, plate and serve them. We love our wings with ranch, carrots, and celery!

Plus you can always make a fun platter of wings!! We love to eat family style, so we placed spicy on one side and BBQ on the other side and shared it while watching football!!

What is your favorite heartburn-causing tailgating food?

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Spicy Smoked Chicken Wings

Ingredients

• Wingettes I love these since they have the little drumsticks in it as well.
• Hot sauce of your choice
• Seasoning for chicken I used a tequila lime BBQ rub, but you can use whichever you want.
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Instructions

1. Rub your chicken down with spice and allow to set while you do the rest of prep work for the smoker.
2. Pull your water bin, chip holder, and racks out of your smoker and cap off the exhaust pipe.
3. Fire the smoker up to start raising the temperature.
4. Fill the water dish with water and the chip holder with smoker chips of your choice.  I used apple disks to give a sweet flavor to the meat.
5. Once your smoker gets hot, put in the chips so they can start to smoke. You may do this differently, but I like to get the chips hot and starting to smoke, then I put in the water dish.
6. While waiting for a good smoke, spray down the racks to your smoker.
7. Spread your chicken wings on your rack.
8. Once you have a good smoke going, slide your wings in, close it up tight, and open up the smoke stack! I keep my smoker between 200 and 250 degrees.
9. Keep an eye on your smoker. I set an alarm to check it every half hour. I did replace my smoking disks at about the 1.5 hour mark. You know your smoker and each will vary in how they smoke and what you want done.
10. Remove once wings are at 160 degrees or more. Mine took about 2.5 hours.
11. Even though they are amazing without sauce, we are a sauce family!! Place your wings in a large bowl. We did one for hot sauce and one with BBQ sauce for the kids. Toss the wings in the sauce. Once you have your wings coated, plate and serve them. We love our wings with ranch, carrots, and celery!